Author: Nakula Barvadekar

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, who set off a national debate when he walked the Bharat Jodo Yatra in a T-shirt in north India’s cold winter, donned a ‘pheran’ to ward off Kashmir’s bone-freezing chill today. As the snow fell steadily, carpeting much of the Valley in white, the former Congress president was seen in a sleeveless jacket over his trademark white T-shirt earlier in the morning an Soon after attending an event at the Pradesh Congress Committee headquarters on Maulana Azad Road here, Mr Gandhi, who walked over 4,000 kilometres in 136 days, emerged in a grey pheran as he…

Nicole Williams English and Larry English are officially parents! The WAGS LA star, 34, and former NFL player husband Larry English, 36, welcomed their first baby together, daughter India Moon English, on Friday, Jan. 13 in Los Angeles, their rep confirms to PEOPLE. Baby India weighed 6 lbs., 11oz. and measured 19 inches long at birth. Sharing the exciting news with PEOPLE, the new mom reveals she welcomed her daughter after a difficult labor and delivery. “Our sweet baby girl is here and we are over the moon in love!!!” Williams English tells PEOPLE in a statement. “We went in…

India’s $3.18 trillion economy expanded 6.3% from a year ago in the quarter to September, down from 13.5% in the previous three months. The deceleration comes amid fears of slowing global economic growth due to restrictive monetary policy to curb inflation. India’s joblessness in December climbed to over 8%, the highest since the nationwide lockdown in March 2020, according to data from Center for Monitoring Indian Economy Pvt. While India isn’t at risk of a recession due to rising borrowing costs, excessive monetary tightening can expose the economy to below-potential growth that can cripple job creation and productivity, warns a…

The viral video of a Muslim student ‘calling out’ his teacher’s bigotry at the Manipal Institute of Technology in Karnataka has led to a spate of commentary. But let’s not treat this as a moment of epiphany – like Newton’s laws of motion or the Archimedes principle – a sudden startling realisation; something we just figured out. Bigotry in classrooms, against Dalit students, tribal students – and increasingly in spate against Muslim students – is something we have known about all along. We simply chose to be in denial, kept silent, and kept pushing the elephant out of the room. What’s…