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At just 2 years and 8 months, Aryatara Shakya has been chosen as Nepal’s new living goddess, or Kumari, during Dashain, the country’s longest Hindu festival. Carried through Kathmandu’s streets to the ...

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At least one state in the union has designated fried calamari as an official symbol. Can you match these concepts to the state that they honor? Women’s groups in the states made the selections, and ...

The Election Commission (EC) on Wednesday published a gazette reserving 115 symbols for registered parties and independent candidates for the upcoming 13th Jatiya Sangsad Elections. The revised list ...