when Riya, 19, took up squash during a gap year after graduating from Marshall High in Falls Church.

KOLKATA( AFP)-India's main religious festival season is back in full swing, with huge noisy crowds thronging markets and fairs for the first time in two years, barely six months after a devastating Covid-19 surge. The coronavirus is still claiming over 200 lives daily in the nation of 1.3 billion people but that is down sharply from the 4, 000 fatalities in April and May. Most activities are back to normal and India has administered almost a billion vaccine doses, with around 75 per cent of peop

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On Tuesday, Democratic Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey gave his Republican colleague Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina a fist bump.... In addition, the legislation also closes what’s often called “ the boyfriend loophole.” As of right now, domestic abusers who live with, are married to or have a child with their partner cannot pass a background check but abusers who do not live with their partner can do so.... The negotiations were led by Republican Senators John Cornyn of Texas and T

KOLKATA-Five years ago, the government of West Bengal state in India pledged to clamp down on violence against doctors.... It promised public hospitals better security equipment, female guards to support female physicians and controlled entry points, according to an internal government memo seen by Reuters. None of these measures had been implemented at the public hospital where a young female doctor was sexually assaulted and killed on Aug 9, allegedly by a police volunteer, four trainee docto