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As the US administration’s poster gained traction on X and resonated within diaspora communities, Indian-American advocacy bodies condemned the advertisement and sought to impress upon US Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K Dhillon and FBI Director Kash Patel for federal scrutiny of the post.

The differences between India’s Kathakali and Japan’s Kabuki dance forms are as important as their similarities. They belong to distinct cultures and aesthetic systems, but both remind us of something crucial and exceedingly beautiful.

This is 60-year-old Chandika Shrestha, the wife of Ananda Shrestha, who was successfully rescued alive 11 days after the devastating flood ravaged much of Nepal. She was rescued from the fourth floor of their four-storey house in Betravati in Nuwakot on Saturday, September 5. An Armed Police Force (APF) rescue team reached the spot in the house almost buried in mud and pulled her out to safety.

The episode is only the latest in a long-running pattern of deadly pipeline tapping across the Niger Delta, a swampy, resource-rich region that has powered Nigeria's economy for generations.

The two men were among hundreds of workers who vanished after the glacial collapse wreaked havoc in Nepal along its border with China on August 26. The disaster has so far claimed at least 1,280 lives, with more than 5,500 people still missing.