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Chance encounter transforms girl from Mumbai slum into teenage model, internet influencer

MUMBAI, Sept 18 (Reuters) – Three years ago an inquisitive American tourist wandered into a waterfront slum in Mumbai and met a tiny, smiley girl. Maleesha Kharwa is now 15, still tiny, and with the same winning smile, and her family still has hutment on a shoreline strewn with garbage, but they now also rent a one room apartment, with its own toilet and running water, just a short distance away. In March, a luxury Indian cosmetics brand Forest Essentials chose Maleesha as the face of its Yuvati campaign celebrating young Indian women. Before that, she shared a cover of

INDIA Alliance to meet at LoP Kharge’s office in Parliament ahead of special session

New Delhi [India], September 18 (ANI): Ahead of the five-day special session of Parliament which is all set to begin on Monday, the floor leaders of the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) are scheduled to hold a meeting on Monday at the office of Rajya Sabha leader of the Opposition Mallikarjun Kharge in Parliament. The floor leaders of the INDI Alliance will meet before the start of the Parliament special session to chalk out the strategy for the floor of the house. The five-day special session of Parliament is all set to begin on Monday during which the parliamentary

Trump refuses to say in a TV interview how he watched the Jan. 6 attack unfold at the US Capitol

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NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump repeatedly declined in an interview aired Sunday to answer questions about whether he watched the Capitol riot unfold on television, saying he would “tell people later at an appropriate time.” Trump’s Evasive Responses on Capitol Riot Trump, the current front-runner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, refused to say on NBC’s “Meet the Press” how he spent Jan. 6, 2021, once the insurrection began and whether he made phone calls as his supporters stormed the seat of American democracy. “I’m not going to tell you. I’ll tell people later at an appropriate time,” Trump

Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s elder brother wanted united Bengal in India

Kolkata, Sep 17 (PTI) Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s elder brother Sarat Bose had raised the demand for ”united Bengal within united India”, even as a controversy rages over rival demands for a Bengal Day, former MP and historian Sugata Bose, son of Sarat Bose said. While the BJP wants June 20, the day legislators from what now constitutes West Bengal voted for partitioning Bengal in 1947, to be celebrated as Bengal Day, the state legislature, which has an overwhelming TMC majority, passed a resolution earlier this month declaring ‘Poila Baisakh’ or the first day of the Bengali calendar as the

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