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“From a remote village in Ladakh to winning Asia’s Nobel Prize — Sonam Wangchuk didn’t just win awards… he won the world’s respect.”

An entire, and very unique, Australian town has been put on the market for an estimated AUD $10million (£5million), sparking fears for the future of its tiny community. The remote village of Licola, tucked away in the rugged Victorian High Country, 154 miles east of Melbourne, is one of Australia's smallest towns, home to just five people.

In a discovery that reinforces the footprint of ancient Tamil civilisation across the globe, around 30 inscriptions, the majority of them in Tamil Brahmi, the early Tamil script, have been identified in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings.

These findings establish that people from Tamil landscape visited and lived in Roman Egypt between the 1st and 3rd centuries AD - not merely as distant trading partners, but as travellers whose names were etched into royal tombs.

How with 4 Olympics golds, Jesse Owens ran Hi**er out of his A***n supremacy theory.

Smriti Mandhana named in TIME’s 100 Most Influential People in Sports 2026, only Indian on list.

How India seeks to strengthen global diamond governance.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday confirmed that Israel and the United States had carried out a joint military operation, dubbed 'Operation Lion's Roar', against Iran, describing the action as necessary to remove what he termed an “existential threat” posed by the Iranian regime.

A gram panchayat in Saundala village, located in Newasa taluka of Ahilyanagar, passed a resolution declaring the community caste-free. Backed by monitoring measures, the move aims to eliminate discrimination and promote equality across public life in Maharashtra.

The 100m national record was fiercely contested during the Federation Cup. Gurindervir singh first clocked 10.17 seconds in the semifinals, briefly surpassing the previous record of 10.18 seconds held by Animesh Kujur. Kujur responded with a 10.15-second run, reclaiming the record. In the final, Gurindervir Singh delivered a stunning 10.09-second sprint, reclaiming the national record and silencing critics.

Why rights groups fear new ECHR declaration could weaken migrant protections.
A political declaration aimed at clarifying key aspects of the European convention on human rights was published on Friday, agreed by all 46 member states of the Council of Europe.

Critics fear it will weaken human rights protections for migrants. The ECHR system has become a political battleground, with both the Conservatives and Reform UK pledging to leave the convention if they are elected to government.