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NEW DELHI: Asiya Andrabi, founder of the women’s separatist outfit Dukhtaran-e-Millat, was on Tuesday sentenced to life imprisonment for conspiring against the State under stringent anti-terror laws.A Delhi court, presided over by Additional Sessions Judge Chander Jit Singh also sentenced her associates, Sofi Fehmeeda and Nahida Nasreen, to 30 years of imprisonment. The court directed…

NEW DELHI: With the Tamil Nadu assembly election approaching, political activity in the state has intensified, with major alliances consolidating and parties recalibrating strategies based on past performance and evolving voter dynamics. The contest is expected to once again centre around the DMK-led alliance and the AIADMK-led NDA front, though the BJP is attempting to…

NEW DELHI: The govt on Tuesday told the Lok Sabha that revolutionary freedom fighters Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru — who were hanged to death by the then British regime on March 23, 1931 — have become martyrs for the cause of attaining Independence of India and that their martyrdom is a fact “not dependent…

Members of Odisha Transgenders Association stage a demonstration demanding withdrawal of the Centre’s proposed Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill (PTI) NEW DELHI: The Lok Sabha on Tuesday passed the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill, 2026, which seeks to give a precise definition of the term “transgender” and exclude “different sexual orientations…

If children prefer to spend time on smartphones rather than inter‑ acting with others in a social set‑ ting, they are just phub‑ bing. Are they just talking to friends or doom scrolling the content in social media platforms? What happens if phubbing continues? A recent study*, published in the Current Psychology journal, sheds light…