India

Local storytellers, global warmongers

29 Sep 2020 05:54 AM IST

We need to start talking about the issue of cultural sovereignty like the rest of our sovereignty depends on it too. We can’t outsource stories of the self to interests that wish to exterminate that very self altogether.

Woman moves court after losing a Ludo game with dad

28 Sep 2020 05:59 AM IST

A 24-year-old woman has approached a family court after she lost a Ludo game to her father. The matter came up before family court counsellor Sarita Rajani in the Madhya Pradesh capital here. The daughter has said that she has been experiencing alienation from her father ever since the outcome

Former Bihar police chief joins Nitish’s Party a month before Assembly elections

28 Sep 2020 05:54 AM IST

Ahead of the Assembly elections in Bihar, former Director-General of Police (DGP) Gupteshwar Pandey, who recently took voluntary retirement scheme (VRS), joined the JD-U on Sunday evening. He met Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Saturday and later said that he has not taken any decision on contesting the elections.

Tejashwi’s big poll promise: Will fill 10L vacancies soon after coming to power

28 Sep 2020 05:49 AM IST

Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Tejashwi Yadav on Sunday promised that if his party returned to power after the Bihar Assembly elections, more than 10 lakh government vacancies would be filled within two months. He also accused the Nitish Kumar government of neglecting the youths of Bihar. “As a result, job

India would never go up when Bharat is going down

28 Sep 2020 05:41 AM IST

Our corporates must realise that nature abhors disequilibrium. There is a huge multitude of people who have been left out of economic development. Why can’t they tie up their goals to the needs of these people? Why can’t they give them work and therefore, money and therefore, create a further

No let up in attacks on religious places in Andhra, now ‘Nandi’ idol vandalized

28 Sep 2020 05:29 AM IST

There is no let-up in the incidents of vandalisation of idols of Hindu deities in Andhra Pradesh. There is already massive outrage over the burning of the religious Chariot at Antarvedi temple of West Godavari District. Now in another incident, unknown offenders have vandalized the ancient Nandi idol situated in

PUNJAB GOVERNMENT’S BIG STEPS TO STUB OUT STUBBLE BURNING

28 Sep 2020 05:22 AM IST

In a series of measures to check stubble burning in the ongoing Kharif season, the Punjab government has appointed 8000 Nodal Officers in the paddy growing villages of the state, with 23,500 more machines being given to farmers for in-situ management of paddy straw. Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh has

Chandrababu Naidu goes for party revamp after massive electoral setback

28 Sep 2020 05:15 AM IST

Telugu Desam Party (TDP) supremo N. Chandrababu Naidu on Sunday announced the presidents of 25 parliamentary units and 13 parliament observers for the party. This is a major announcement since the TDP suffered a major setback in 2019 assembly elections, when it got just 23 seats in the assembly polls.

Son rise: Dayanidhi Maran pitches for Udhayanidhi’s entry into electoral politics

28 Sep 2020 05:11 AM IST

DMK MP Dayanidhi Maran has said that he will make an appeal to the party high command asking them to field DMK Youth wing president and M.K Stalin’s son Udhayanidhi Stalin from the Chepauk constituency in the 2021 State Assembly elections. When addressing the party workers at a function in

Meeting between Sanjay Raut and Fadnavis upsets Congress, NCP

28 Sep 2020 05:05 AM IST

The two-hour meeting between Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut and former Maharashtra chief minister and BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis has upset both the Congress and the NCP, which are in the ruling alliance in the state. The clarification given by Sanjay Raut about his meeting with the leader of Shiv

Sharad Pawar praises SAD for exiting NDA over farm bills

28 Sep 2020 04:59 AM IST

The decades-old ties between BJP-SAD have ended on Saturday. Punjab’s Shiromani Akali Dal decided to quit its longtime membership of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) over the contentious farm sector reform bills that cleared Parliament last week. The Sukhbir Singh Badal-led party had opposed the three farm bills in

Drug probe: NCB SEIZES PHONES OF DEEPIKA, SARA AND SHRADDHA

28 Sep 2020 04:54 AM IST

With the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on the job to unravel the Bollywood drug cartel, persons linked to the case are blowing the lid off one fact or the other. The latest in the series is Deepika Padukone. Deepika Padukone, who was questioned for nearly six hours by NCB’s Special