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India's first Test win at Lord's on June 10, 1986, is a great moment in Indian Test history, with Dilip Vengsarkar scoring a century and Kapil Dev grabbing four wickets to secure a 47-run victory. It was India's second-ever 2-0 series win against a strong rival overseas, and Vengsarkar became the first foreign batter to score three Test centuries at Lord's. India have won only nine times in 67 Tests in England, with three of them at Lord's. Cyclone Biparjoy caused damage to homes, trees, and power lines in several parts of Gujarat, India, after making landfall near Jakhau port on Thursday. The evacuation of over 100,000 people and preparations by multiple agencies helped contain casualties, with 23 injuries confirmed and no known fatalities. The cyclone caused flooding in Saurashtra and Kutch, and power outages affecting over 4,600 villages. The cyclone weakened as it headed towards Rajasthan, where heavy rain is forecast. The Gujarat government has announced cash incentives for those impacted by the cyclone, and preliminary assessments have been ordered to estimate damages. According to the officials, Prakash Ram, hailing from Pathra village in Bihar’s Gopalganj district, was travelling back home on the Yeshwantpur-Howrah Express when the general coach he was in derailed and fell into a ditch after being hit by the derailed bogies of the Chennai-bound Coromandel Express.

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An MBBS student and bhajan singer has trekked 1,300 km from Gangotri to Madhya Pradesh to meet Bageshwar Baba Dhirendra Shastri. Shivranjan Tiwari claims that Shastri, a 26-year-old bachelor, is her 'prannath' and wants him to read a scroll and reveal her desires. Will her unrequited devotion move Bageshwar Baba?

SRINAGAR, India — When the lights were suddenly cut off, the crowd of young people switched on the flashlights on their smartphones. They turned them toward the seat of a motorbike, where student activist Aishe Ghosh stood in defiance. “They will shut one screen, we will open hundreds,” she shouted. The students had gathered at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, the Indian capital, for an outdoor screening of a After the power outage — Ghosh blames the university administration, which hasn’t commented on it publicly — students streamed the film on their phones and laptops instead, either through VPNs or by sharing proxy links to archived footage via encrypted apps. Authorities in Student protesters outside the Jamia Millia Islamia university in New Delhi on Wednesday. Manish Swarup / AP Many of India’s young people have no memory of the riots, in which more than 1,000 people, most of them Muslims, were killed. Modi denies being complicit in the attacks, and India’s Supreme Court upheld a ruling last year that he should be cleared of all charges. Over half of India’s 1.4 billion people are under the age of 30, and they are shaping up to be a pivotal political force in the 2024 general election and beyond, Ghosh told NBC News. “It is very important for the BJP to control these minds,” she said. Arindam Bagchi, spokesperson for India’s Ministry of External Affairs, called the BBC film, “India: The Modi Question,” a “propaganda piece designed to push a particular discre...