The Latest Breaking News from Akbar

Year after year, whole sections, topics, and names are altered if not altogether taken out of the school textbooks that belong to the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT). This has occurred so steadily over the last few years that news about history being erased from the school…

This week on TV Newsance, Anjana was back on primetime, tackling the nation’s most urgent crisis – Labubu, a sharp-toothed Chinese toy, apparently more terrifying than inflation or unemployment. But fear not, because Labubu wasn’t alone. Her evil cousin Annabelle also made a cameo, and just to keep things educational,…

38-year-old Akbar dies in wild tusker attack near Tanigebail, leaving locals angry and urging government action.

The Tripura government has suspended IFS officer Pravin L. Agrawal following the row over naming a lion and lioness ‘Akbar’ and ‘Sita’

A Hindu group is upset because a zoo kept a lion named after a Mughal king with a lioness named after a Hindu deity.

Calcutta High Court asks West Bengal government to consider renaming a lioness named Sita. Sita, along with a lion named Akbar, had arrived in the Siliguri zoo as part of an animal exchange programme from Tripura

The community was officially declared ‘non-Muslim’ four decades ago. Today, it is increasingly under attack.

Engaging and wildly entertaining, Kaveh Akbar's debut novel will undoubtedly be considered one of the best of the year because it focuses on very specific stories while discussing universal feelings.

Fleeing deteriorating conditions under the Taliban, some Afghan refugees have made a risky trek to the US-Mexico border.