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Timely treatment, counselling, family participation and sustained rehabilitation support can help individuals overcome dependence on drugs, rebuild confidence and return to a productive life. Otherwise, emotional distress and the absence of healthy coping mechanisms can increase a person's vulnerability to substance use.Lena (name changed), a 37-year-old nursing professional from Imphal West, Manipur, overcame substance dependence with treatment and rehabilitation support from Sneha Bhavan, an Integrated Rehabilitation Centre for Addicts supported under the National Action Plan for Drug Demand Reduction. She has maintained sobriety since 2024 and resumed her career as a nursing lecturer.Following separation from her husband, Ms Lena experienced

The focus is on defending the Asian Games gold, but the eyes are set on a bigger goal. For the Indian women’s cricket team, their campaign in the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games is like a “teaser” for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.India Women, the defending champions, take on hosts Japan in a quarter-final match on Friday. Fresh from their T20 Asia Cup triumph in Dubai last week, the team led by Harmanpreet Kaur are the overwhelming favourites to win gold once again.Only eight teams are competing in women’s cricket and the competition starts directly with the quarter-finals.On Thursday, Bangladesh entered the

NEW DELHI, Sept 18 (Reuters) - The quiet Tata Group insider was on his way out. Now Natarajan Chandrasekaran has agreed to five more years running India's largest conglomerate, backed ​by its board but facing opposition from the philanthropies that control it.The board of Tata Sons, the group's holding company, voted to give the 63-year-old ‌a third five-year term as chairman after he reversed last month's decision to leave when his tenure expires in February 2027.Noel Tata, chairman of Tata Trusts and a leading member of the conglomerate's founding family, cast the only vote against. The Trusts, which hold 66%

At least 16 people, including five police officers, have been killed after a vehicle loaded with explosives rammed into a mosque in north-western Pakistan, according to a senior police official in Peshawar.A gun battle is still ongoing between attackers and security forces at the mosque, near police headquarters, in the Kohat district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.One of the assailants has reportedly been killed, an officer says, and a rescue operation is under way.In a statement, Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari expressed "his best wishes for the swift recovery of those injured in the explosion."Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police chief inspector general Zulfikar Hameed

After her own candidate backed out of the Nandigram bypoll, Mamata Banerjee said on Friday that her faction of the Trinamool Congress will now back the Congress nominee. She also noted she has the Congress's support in the fight to claim the name and symbol of the party she founded in 1998: "Rahul Gandhi called me yesterday.We are together. We will not surrender to the BJP." She said the bypoll wasn't discussed on that call: "I had it in my mind, though I didn't tell them about the support in Nandigram."Her faction had announced Sanchita Pradhan Dey as the candidate