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Chargesheet too late, what’s the point now: Sarla Bhat’s family

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Chargesheet too late, what’s the point now: Sarla Bhat’s family

3 min readJammuUpdated: Jun 30, 2026 01:25 AM IST On Monday, the State Investigation Agency filed a 737-page chargesheet in a special NIA court in Srinagar, naming the then JKLF chief Yasin Malik as a key accused in her abduction and killing. (File Photo)The State Investigation Agency may have filed a chargesheet against Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front chief Yasin Malik and four others for the 1990 abduction and killing of Kashmiri Pandit nurse Sarla Bhat, but the Bhat family believes it has come too late. A Kashmiri Pandit nurse at the Sher-e-Kashmir Institute for Medical Sciences (SKIMS), Sarla was abducted from her hostel by JKLF militants on April 14, 1990, and her bullet-riddled body was found five days later in old Srinagar city.In its 737-page chargesheet filed in a special court in Srinagar, the SIA named Malik as a key accused in her abduction and killing. Officials have called it a “historic milestone in the pursuit of justice for victims of terrorism” and “one of the most significant breakthroughs in the investigation of legacy terror crimes in Jammu and Kashmir”. But Bhat family says the government should have acted sooner. “What kind of justice is it? It’s much too delayed,” says her cousin, Prediman Krishan Bhat. “What’s the point now? For us, it’s a joke. It has no relevance.” In an earlier conversation with The Indian Express, Bhat spoke of the blast outside the family home after Sarla’s funeral and the subsequent attack by a mob when the family went to the cremation ground to collect her ashes. The attacks forced the family to leave Kashmir with “just a briefcase of documents and a bag of clothes”, he had said.Story continues below this ad On April 14, 1990, Sarla had just finished her shift and was leaving the SKIMS main building when JKLF militants abducted her in a waiting vehicle, accusing her of being a police informer. After her body was found, allegations of torture and sexual assault emerged. “We visited her home in Anantnag after the body was found, and stayed the night,” Prediman said. “The next morning, an uncle and I were given the duty of collecting her ashes from the cremation ground while the rest of the family gathered their valuables so they could move to Jammu.”

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Police investigate theft of England equipment at World Cup, 2 people in custody

Four-time winners Germany thrash World Cup debutants Curacao 7-1 in their first group game on Sunday.Germany won their first opening match at a World Cup since lifting the trophy in 2014 as they eased to a 7-1 win against debutants Curacao in their opening Group E match in Houston.The Germans will face stiffer tests against group rivals Ecuador and Ivory Coast but Sunday’s win against the tiny Caribbean nation puts them in a good position to progress to the knockout stages for the first time since 2014.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemslist 1 of 4Giants Spain take on tiny Cape Verde to begin World Cup 2026 title bidlist 2 of 4Top five takeaways from Brazil’s blockbuster World Cup clash with Moroccolist 3 of 4World Cup Day 4: Netherlands take on Japan, Curacao set to make historylist 4 of 4The World Cup cicada: India’s rare insect on a four-year clockend of listAn early German goal by Felix Nmecha was cancelled out by a deflected strike from Livano Comenencia which had the Curacao fans, known as the Blue Wave, out of their seats in Houston.However, Nico Schlotterbeck, Kai Havertz with a double, Jamal Musiala, Nathaniel Brown and Deniz Undav scored to put to bed any possibility of one of the greatest upsets in World Cup history.Germany settled early, Nmecha scoring a beauty in the sixth minute, receiving the ball from Florian Wirtz and curling the ball round a Curacao defender and past goalkeeper Eloy Room.The goal had coach Julian Nagelsmann letting out a huge roar.Nmecha, who like Musiala played for England at junior level before choosing Germany, went close minutes later with a rasping effort from outside the box.German goalkeeper Manuel Neuer, who at 40 is the oldest German player ever to appear at a World Cup and is playing in his fifth global tournament, had had little to do until Comenencia struck with a shot which took a deflection.While Germany’s senior citizen shook his head ruefully, the oldest coach to ever appear at the finals, 78-year-old Dick Advocaat, was up out of his seat arms raised.The drinks break allowed the Germans to regroup.Soon after the restart Schlotterbeck’s header was brilliantly turned over the bar by Room.The four-time world champions huffed and puffed round the Curacao goal, but time and again desperate defending frustrated their Germans.However, the Curacao defence cracked in the 38th minute when an unmarked Schlotterbeck headed home from a corner for his first goal for his country.The Germans went into the break with a two-goal advantage as Havertz stroked home a penalty after Nmecha had been brought down by Riechedly Bazoer.Germany struck 69 seconds into the second half, Musiala running on to Joshua Kimmich’s pass and scoring from a tight angle.It should have been 5-1 just after the hour mark but Leroy Sane sent his effort wide with only Room to beat.Where Sane came up short Brown did not as the fullback fired home just before the second hydration break.Substitute Undav made it six with his seventh goal in his last seven international appearances.Havertz rounded it off with his 24th goal for Germany to replicate the same scoreline as they famously recorded against hosts Brazil in the 2014 semi-finals.

Artemis 3 has been pushed to late 2027. Can NASA still land astronauts on the moon in 2028?

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Artemis 3 has been pushed to late 2027. Can NASA still land astronauts on the moon in 2028?

(Image credit: Émile-Antoine Bayard and Alphonse de Neuville / NASA) "From the pages of Jules Verne to a modern-day mission to the moon, a new chapter of our exploration of our celestial neighbor is complete." So said NASA commentator Rob Navias as Artemis 2’s Integrity spacecraft landed safely in the Pacific this past April.It is striking just how similar the mission profile of Artemis 2 was to the journey described by the French author in the mid-19th century. At a time when his peers were writing about fanciful balloon trips to other planets, Jules Verne dealt realistically with escape velocity, orbital slingshots, and course-correction burns. Yes, he made mistakes — some of them laughably obvious to the modern reader — but many aspects of his stories were eerily prescient of the real space missions that were still a century or more away.Often called the father of science fiction, the prolific Verne wrote of extraordinary voyages on modes of transport that did not yet exist, like the submarine in "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", and took readers to unexplored regions, such as "Journey to the Center of the Earth".Verne’s fourth novel, "From the Earth to the Moon", was published in 1865. Its darkly comic opening chapters describe how the members of the Baltimore Gun Club find their ballistic talents surplus to requirements at the conclusion of the American Civil War (a conflict still ongoing as Verne wrote). Club president Impey Barbicane proposes a new outlet for their skills: "I began to wonder whether, with a sufficiently large cannon, it might be possible to shoot a projectile to the moon."Verne was obsessed with facts and figures. He explains the math and science of Barbicane’s 900 ft (274 m) cannon, or "Columbiad", in great detail, including the trajectory of its projectile.His reasoning about where to locate the Columbiad was sound enough to be replicated by NASA decades later: launch from as close to the equator as possible to get a speed boost from the Earth’s rotation. Verne picked a spot near Fort Myers, on the opposite side of the Floridian peninsula to Cape Canaveral, but at a very similar latitude.G-force extremes Image credit: Émile-Antoine Bayard and Alphonse de Neuville Image credit: Space.com / Josh Dinner As "From the Earth to the Moon" proceeds, French adventurer Michael Ardan volunteers to man the Columbiad’s hollow projectile. Barbicane and his nemesis, Captain Nicholl, soon agree to join him.But here we hit the first major problem in Verne’s vision. Unlike a rocket, which accelerates to escape velocity over a few minutes, subjecting its crew to strong but survivable g-forces, a projectile fired from a cannon accelerates almost instantaneously. Barbicane, Nicholl, and Ardan would have been crushed to a paste.Nonetheless, the fictional launch is successful, and "All Around the Moon", published four years later in 1869, picks up the story. Instead of hitting the moon, as Barbicane had rather recklessly intended, the projectile turns out to be on a free-return trajectory, taking it around the far side of our natural satellite.Some of the sequel’s details are charmingly naive. Although Verne equips his travelers with chemical apparatus to produce oxygen and scrub carbon dioxide, he has no qualms about them opening portholes on several occasions, as long as they’re quick! His projectile’s interior is spacious and richly appointed like a Victorian study, and its occupants enjoy gourmet meals with fine wines, a far cry from the rehydrated rations that Reid Wiseman and company munched on during Artemis 2.Verne also has his crew mostly bound to the capsule’s floor by gravity. He mistakenly has them experience weightlessness only at the "neutral point", the spot where the Earth's and moon’s gravitational pulls are equally balanced. Still, it is quite amazing to read zero g imagined at a time when it was completely beyond all human experience (except perhaps briefly, if one of the recently invented "saf

Voters will judge Trump on the economy - how is it doing?

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Voters will judge Trump on the economy - how is it doing?

Trump administration drops $1.8bn 'anti-weaponisation' fund13 minutes agoNardine SaadReutersThe Trump administration has abandoned plans to create a $1.8bn (£1.3bn) fund to compensate individuals who claim they were unfairly targeted or investigated by the government, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said."We're not moving forward with the fund, period," Blanche told lawmakers on Tuesday.The proposed "anti-weaponisation" fund was announced to settle a lawsuit by President Donald Trump against the Internal Revenue Service over the leak of his tax returns.The plan drew strong criticism from Democrats and some Republicans, who argued it could result in payment to people prosecuted over the US Capitol riot on 6 January 2021, including those convicted of assaulting police officers.Brinkema barred the Department of Justice (DOJ) department from taking any steps to stand up or operate the fund - including processing or dispersing claims - until a preliminary hearing on 12 June.Blanche's comments in a tense congressional hearing comes a day after the Justice Department said it "disagrees strongly" with the judge's order but it would abide by the ruling.While Blanche gave the assurance to abandon the fund in oral testimony, he suggested the justice department may not release a formal statement."I'm not committing to putting anything in writing," Blanche said after Congresswoman Grace Meng, a Democrat, suggested that such a statement would help instill trust in the plan. "I don't know what the purpose is of putting something in writing. I'm telling you what we are doing."The DOJ defended the fund's establishment on Monday, saying in a statement on X that it was created "to make up for the tremendous abuse, harm, and hate unfairly shown to so many people".The fund was "open to anybody who was so weaponized, targeted, or persecuted, whether they were Democrat, Republican, Conservative, Independent, or otherwise", the DOJ said.The White House directed comments about the decision to the justice department. The fund had been set aside for "victims of lawfare" to seek compensation, and eligibility for it appeared broad. Responding to the judge's two-page order last week, a DOJ spokesperson said they were "extremely confident" in the legality of the scheme.The order came down after two men who alleged the fund was discriminatory filed a lawsuit in Virginia. The plaintiffs said they had been targeted for political retribution by the Trump administration but believed they would not be allowed to file claims for compensation.Several Republican lawmakers, as well as Democrats, have voiced opposition to the fund since it was announced last month by Blanche - Trump's former personal lawyer who stepped in as the country's top prosecutor after the ouster of Pam Bondi from that role in April.Senate Majority leader John Thune, the top Republican in the US Senate, has come out forcefully against the fund.He reiterated his stance on Capitol Hill on Monday by saying that he preferred that the White House shut down the proposed fund if Congress was to pass a $72bn (53.5bn) budget reconciliation package to fund immigration agencies."I made my views very clear on the issue," Thune said, adding that "the best way to handle it is if the administration decides to shut it down themselves".Earlier on Monday, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, the top Democrat in the Senate, signalled that his party would push to eliminate the fund."Senate Democrats will push legislation to ban Trump's corrupt MAGA slush fund and ensure that no president can ever do this again, " Schumer added on X. "We will make sure that it's dead and can't be revived—just like we did with Trump's ballroom."Over the weekend, former US Vice-President Mike Pence, who served as second in command during Trump's first term, sharply criticised the fund, saying it was a "bad idea from the start" and should be dropped.

My period is late, but I’m spotting. I only notice it when I wipe. What is going on?

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My period is late, but I’m spotting. I only notice it when I wipe. What is going on?

4 min readNew DelhiMay 10, 2026 04:58 PM IST Your periods going off the calendar can be confusing and leave you with a million doubts. Now imagine that they get delayed, and to make it even more confusing, you notice spotting only when you wipe. No proper flow, no clear answers. One such confused internet user shared a similar experience on Quora, seeking answers. The query read: ‘My period is late, but I’m spotting. I only notice it when I wipe. What is going on?’ Is it a shift in your cycle? Are you not having your period? Is it something to worry about? Are you pregnant? Is this a symptom? Intrigued, we decided to dig deeper and solve the mystery. “It means your body started to bleed but didn’t get a full flow,” reveals Dr Kaishreen Khan, Consultant- Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, Motherhood Hospitals, Kharadi, Pune.To put it simply, one of the reasons could be that your uterus lining is “shedding very lightly” or something is delaying the normal period. “It’s your body’s way of saying something changed this cycle.” DISCLAIMER: This article is based on information from the public domain and/or the experts we spoke to. Always consult your health practitioner before starting any routine. Does this mean you are pregnant? Don’t ignore severe belly pain, especially one-sided — it could be an ectopic pregnancy (Image: Pexels)“Yes, it could be,” Dr Khan confirms. “Implantation bleeding happens when a fertilized egg attaches to the uterus.” This kind of spotting is usually subtle—“very light, pink or brown, and lasts 1–2 days around the time your period is due.” However, this alone does not confirm pregnancy, for which further medical testing is needed. More often, the cause is hormonal. “Hormone changes are the biggest reason — stress, sudden weight change, travel, or poor sleep.” Conditions like PCOS or thyroid issues, changes in birth control, perimenopause, or even intense exercise can also disrupt the cycle. Sometimes, there’s no major cause at all—“just a one-off hormonal hiccup.”Story continues below this ad In such cases, pregnancy becomes less likely—but testing can still give clarity. Similarly, if bleeding picks up after a few days, it’s often just a delayed cycle. “That usually means your period just started late and lightly.” In fact, it’s fairly common for periods to begin with spotting before a full flow. “If the bleeding now looks like your usual period and lasts 3–7 days, it’s likely normal. In such cases, pregnancy becomes less likely—but testing can still give clarity.” When to test and when to worry “Take a home pregnancy test if your period is 8 to 10 days late, using first-morning urine,” says Dr Khan. If it’s negative and your period still doesn’t come, “repeat it” after about a week.Story continues below this ad You should also check in with a doctor if this keeps happening. “Consult your gynecologist if this happens 2–3 cycles in a row, or if you’re trying to conceive.” At the same time, certain symptoms need urgent attention. “Don’t ignore severe belly pain, especially one-sided — it could be an ectopic pregnancy,” Dr Khan warns. Other warning signs include “sudden heavy bleeding, clots, dizziness, pain during sex or foul-smelling discharge,” as well as fever or pelvic pain. “These signs mean you shouldn’t wait — call your doctor the same day,” the gynecologist concludes.Story continues below this ad DISCLAIMER: This article is based on information from the public domain and/or the experts we spoke to. Always consult your health practitioner before starting any routine.

Manipur’s Zomi leaders to take late BJP MLA Valte’s body to Delhi, protest outside party office

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Valte’s family and the leaders of the Zomi tribe want certain conditions to be fulfilled, including the arrest of those who had attacked Valte in 2023. File | Photo Credit: ANI Members of the Zomi community in Manipur are planning to bring the body of the late Bharatiya Janata Party MLA Vungzagin Valte to the national capital to stage a protest outside the BJP headquarters.Valte had been physically assaulted by a mob in Imphal on May 4, 2023, resulting in paralysis, and died on February 21, 2026 in a hospital in Haryana’s Gurugram. His body is being preserved at the mortuary of the Churachandpur district hospital in Manipur. Published - May 05, 2026 11:28 pm IST

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