Oh brilliant! Rahul Bhatia wins the 2024 True Story Award for his Guardian longform report on the tribulations of a Muslim man who nearly died in the 2002 Delhi riots -- and then got caught in a nightmare out of Kafka:

Congratulations, Rahul.

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BREAKING NEWS: One of Gupta brothers was arrested. Ajay Gupta and his cousin, Anil Gupta, were arrested after a businessman, Satinder Singh Sawhney, a top Uttarakhand builder, committed by jumping from the eighth floor of a building in Dehradum, India and left a suicide note

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Om Thanvi | ओम थानवी Sreeja Kundu Sandeep Dikshit
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Author & scholar-diplomat, Amb Rajiv Bhatia on IIC's stellar, well-attended book event of high-quality, superbly steered by V.Srinivas IAS

Indian Judge Dalveer Bhandari voted in favor of halting Israel's Rafah offensive in the ICJ verdict on South Africa vs. Israel. The decision was reached with a majority of 13 to 2, with Vice President Julia Sebutinde (Uganda) & Ad Hoc Judge Barak (Israeli) dissenting.

NEW: Micheal Martin says he will complain directly to the Israeli foreign minister, after local media were invited to film a reprimand of the Irish ambassador.

TV stations showed footage of the ambassador and counterparts being admonished yesterday.

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Nakedly genocidal. But perfectly normalised talk in Modi's new India

These videos of the queue up Everest and the aftermath of the cornice collapse that killed a couple of people...
There's something about this that sums up so much of what's wrong with the world.
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Israel decides to punish Spain for recognising the Palestine State....by cutting their access to Palestinians.

143 countries now recognise Palestine.

On the latest recognition of Palestine, UNGA vote, ICC warrants: Netanyahu is only furthering his isolation, from an intl community that came out in full sympathy on October 7, but has grown increasingly horrified by the military campaign since then. thehindu.com/opinion/editor…

Watch | This week on Worldview, the episode will feature an exclusive interview between Suhasini Haidar and the Bhutanese Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay. The episode will discuss Bhutan's project, the Gelephu Mindfulness City and how India could potentially help. The full episode

Pleased to receive Saudi Ambassador Saleh bin Eid Al-Hussaini for a farewell call.

Thank him for his contribution to the strengthening of 🇮🇳 🇸🇦 relationship.

Always committed to helping Indians abroad.

First batch of 60 Indian nationals rescued by Indian Embassy in Cambodia from fraudulent employers return home. Thank the Cambodian authorities for their support.

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Indian Diplomacy Randhir Jaiswal Madad, MEA

I welcome the return of Ukrainian children from Russia to their families & communities in Ukraine as a result of continued Qatari mediation.

The return of all the thousands of illegally deported and forcibly displaced children remains an absolute priority for the EU.

#Exclusive Afraid and isolated in Bishkek. Read Sumedha Sharma’s exclusive story on 10,000 Indian medical students plight in the Kyrgyz capital. Only in The Tribune

Dhankhar in Tehran, India shows solidarity with Iran, as New Delhi essays the sudden loss of key leaders in helicopter crash. Reporting The Hindu thehindu.com/news/national/…

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The Hindu's coverage of the death of Iranian President #EbrahimRaisi

Obit: Ebrahim Raisi | A hardline President who had the backing of Iran’s clerical establishment

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