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American Fiction: Who defines your narrative and why?

American Fiction bluntly satirises this fashionable zeitgeist and shatters its progressive myths, challenging the false pretensions of capitalism’s culture production-spanning the industries of publishing, awards, and filmmaking-that it's open to new, different voices from the margins and the underprivileged.

Jailed Palestinian writer wins International Prize for Arabic Fiction

Palestinian author Basim Khandaqji, who has been imprisoned by Israel since 2004, has been named as the winner of the 2024 International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) for his novel A Mask, the Colour of the Sky.

We will leave India if told to break encryption: WhatsApp tells Delhi High Court

Messaging application WhatsApp on Thursday told the Delhi High Court that the company would leave India if it was compelled to break encryption of messages and calls under the 2021 Information Technology Rules.

Polynomial Politics: Imagining India as a Country Led by Lower Castes

This article is a review of the book Indian Philosophy, Indian Revolution: On Caste and Politics by Divya Dwivedi...

“As a nation, we did not have a religious identity before but now I don’t know why…”: Actor Vidya Balan

India has become “more polarised” when it comes to religion, with people desperately searching for anything that gives them a sense of “identity,” said award winning actor Vidya Balan.

WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook down globally

WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook, all three apps are owned by Facebook and run on shared infrastructure, have gone down in several parts for the world, users reported on Monday evening.

Gautam Adani’s wealth grew four times to Rs 5 lakh crore in one year

Indian billionaire industrialist Gautam Adani’s wealth grew almost four times from INR 1.04 lakh crore to INR 5.05 lakh crore in the last year,  a report released by IIFL Wealth and Hurun India has said.
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Elderly to make up 22 % of world population by 2050

“People aged 60 and older make up 12.3 per cent of the global population, and by 2050, that number will rise to almost 22 per cent,” read a statement by UN’s Population Fund.

Inzamam-ul-Haq hospitalised after heart attack, stable now

Legendary batter and former Pakistan team captain Inzamam-ul-Haq has been hospitalised in Lahore after suffering a heart attack on Monday night.
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Boosting production only hope for least developed countries post pandemic

The world’s poorest countries will remain on the margins of the global economy if States are unable to boost economic production, and the international community fails to provide more support, the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) warned.

Does trust matter in healthcare?

Trust is the basis where all kinds of relationships are built on. A review by Goudge and his team suggests that trust is generally understood to be “judgement in a situation of risk that the trustee will act in best interests of the truster, or at least in ways that will not be harmful to the truster”.
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“I continue to smile every day,” Football legend Pele after brief stay in ICU

Brazilian football icon Pele is in a “stable” condition following his readmission to an intensive care unit for respiratory problems, days after undergoing surgery for a suspected colon tumour, report several news agencies.

The Ronaldo effect: Business goals of clubs like Manchester United

Dan Plumley, Sheffield Hallam University and Rob Wilson, Sheffield Hallam University The prodigal son returns. In the last few days of a frenzied football transfer window, Manchester United pulled off...
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Vaccine, PCR test needed to enter Expo Dubai

The six-month world fair, featuring exhibitions by 192 countries, is expected to attract more than 20 million international visitors when it opens on October 1 after a year's delay.

#HamareAbbaJaan: Protesting Yogi, netizens share emotional stories

At an event in Kushinagar on Sunday, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath criticised the previous governments for what he said was “politics of appeasement” — targeting Muslims —...
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iD Fresh Foods files complaint against anti-Muslim campaign

Ready-to-cook food brand, ID Fresh Foods, has filed a case against communal accusations against it as false Whatsapp forwards by Hindutva groups accused the brand of mixing cow bones and calf rennet in their batter alleged the food start-up of employing only Muslims'.

15 year old rapper Saniya making waves at Mumbai’s slum

"I’ve grown up in a slum and have seen poverty very closely, I know what it is like to sleep empty stomach every other night, my father is a autodriver and my mother runs a small confectionery but they have still provided me and my brother the best they could," Saniya says to Maktoob.
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