Another in Alabama calls her "Ms Dolly". Across the globe in Australia, a toddler with speech delays delighted her family with her first word - "orange" - after she and her twin sister received a free book in the post about colours. It came from Imagination Library, the literacy programme begun by late global superstar Dolly Parton. Parton, who died this week aged 80, launched the philanthropic effort in 1995 to honour her father - whose difficult Appalachian upbringing never allowed him to finish school or learn to read and write. "He was the smartest man I have ever known, but I know in my heart his inability to read probably kept him from fulfilling all of his dreams," wrote Parton in an open letter on Imagination Library's website.

Chandrasekaran resigned amid a deadlock over his reappointment and a widening rift with Tata Trusts - the charity arm which owns controlling shares of the unlisted commercial holding company. The disagreements are said to have centred over a public listing of Tata Sons as well as capital allocation for the group's various new unlisted businesses, including semiconductors, e-commerce and aviation, all of which are bleeding money. The group has been in the middle of the largest ever capital investment cycle, with tens of billions of dollars being deployed on everything from building India's first chip fabrication plant to manufacturing EV batteries and turning around Air India, which the Tatas bought from the government in 2022. The new person at the helm will need to have an ability to assess and absorb the risks that have come with this breakneck expansion as well as rise up to numerous other challenges, Hetal Dalal from Institutional Investor Advisor Services (IiAS), a governance advisory firm, told the BBC. "It is an incredibly difficult role not just for the individual who will get it but also for the selection committee to find someone. It requires a multitude of skillsets and experience from managing the Tata Trusts to the Tata Sons board, understanding various new businesses and being able to also have strong relationships with regulators and the government," Dalal said. "There aren't many people running such large, diversified conglomerates. And will they leave their current roles to join the Tata Group?"

Protesters in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand have called off their 26-day agitation over alleged irregularities in government exams after the state agreed to several of their demands. Thousands of students and job seekers had been seeking an overhaul of the state's recruitment system, with some also going on hunger strike. The breakthrough came after the government cancelled 22 of these exams and ordered investigations into several others. On Wednesday, student leaders said they had given the government two months to fulfil its remaining promises. The protest site in the state capital, Ranchi, where hundreds had been camped out since late July, has since been cleared. Before leaving, protesters held celebrations, exchanging garlands and bursting crackers. "This marks a major victory in the struggle that Jharkhand's students have endured," student activist Ravindra Paswan told news agency ANI. But protest leaders stressed that the agitation had only been suspended and could resume if the government failed to act. One issue that had prolonged the stand-off was the students' demand for an investigation by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), India's federal investigative agency. The state government had resisted that demand, instead ordering its Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to investigate alleged irregularities. Several people have been arrested during the investigation, including the head of the Jharkhand Public Service Commission (JPSC), which conducts many of these exams.

Scan a QR code, tap a few buttons and the money moves instantly. There is no card machine, no cash, and - most importantly - for the user, no visible fee. That may be about to change. India has paved the way for banks and payment companies to charge merchants a fee on UPI transactions, potentially ending a decade-long experiment in free digital payments. The government has yet to decide the rate or exactly where it will apply, but proposals under discussion include a merchant discount rate (MDR) of 0.3-0.5% - a small fee paid by a business to the banks and payment companies that process its UPI payments - on larger transactions at big businesses.

After visiting the vessel on Saturday, Adm Brad Cooper said it had "among the lowest number of cases related to mental health" out of 11 active US aircraft carriers. But he acknowledged that Navy service at sea for long periods was "uniquely challenging and tough". The ship arrived in the Middle East in January and has been supporting the US war against Iran, including the blockade on Iranian ports. It has spent a record-setting uninterrupted time at sea of more than 240 days.

The Indian crew of a sanctioned oil tanker urged authorities to "send help" after the ship was hit by a US missile off Oman on Monday, saying it was on fire and sinking in a distress call shared with BBC Verify. US Central Command (Centcom) said the ship, Marivex, had violated its blockade of Iranian ports and a "precision munition" was fired into the ship after the crew failed to comply with US instructions. All 24 crew were rescued by the Omani military, Indian authorities said. Marivex is the seventh ship disabled by the US for violating the blockade, Centcom added. The US military has been blockading Iran's ports after Tehran effectively closed the busy Strait of Hormuz through which some 20% of the world's oil and gas supplies are transported. Opesh Kumar Sharma of India's ministry of ports, shipping and waterways said that a fire first broke out on the tanker - which was not loaded with oil - at about 13:30 India time (08:00 GMT), but did not comment on the cause of the fire. Centcom later confirmed that an F-18 Super Hornet fighter jet from the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln "fired a precision munition into the ship's engineering and steering spaces".

The photographs are the first thing Prahlod Thakur sees when he wakes up. They hang on the bright green peeling walls of his small Ahmedabad home, among religious icons, brass vessels and fading family portraits. One frame holds the face of his wife, Sarlaben. Another shows his granddaughter, Aadhya, wearing a white dress and smiling. Both of them were in the BJ Medical College hostel complex, less than 2km (1.2 miles) from the Ahmedabad airport, when an Air India plane crashed into it in June last year. There were 260 victims - 241 were on the plane. Sarlaben and Aadhya were among the 19 killed on the ground. A year later, the loss still feels fresh. "I just miss them," says Thakur. "I see the photos and feel like crying." Investigators are soon expected to release a report on the crash. Much of the attention over the past year has focused on the passengers aboard the London-bound flight and the unanswered questions surrounding its final moments. In Ahmedabad, another question lingers: what happens to a place after a catastrophe becomes part of its daily life? Unlike most disaster sites, where the scars eventually disappear, at BJ Medical College grief has become a permanent resident. A year on, the hostel struck by the plane still stands like an open wound. Its upper floors stand ripped open to the sky, concrete hangs in jagged slabs and a smoke-blackened staircase disappears into darkness. Soot streaks the walls, while suitcases and clothes remain buried beneath dust, rubble and twisted steel. Officials have approved plans to demolish the damaged complex and build a new hostel. For now, though, the wreckage remains. Students pass the hostel on their way to lectures as aeroplanes rumble overhead every few minutes. For decades, the sound blended into the city's background noise, as familiar and unremarkable as the traffic on the roads.

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