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New Delhi: Almost a year to the day when a purportedly Meitei mob paraded women from the Kuki-Zo community and sexually assaulted them in...
New Delhi: The first phase of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections took place on April 19 and the second on April 26, but the Election Commission of India...
New Delhi: At a time when Manipur’s Meitei community is at loggerheads with the Kuki-Zos, incorrect attribution of an indigenous game of the...
First let us put down the facts. One, spread across two phases, voters in 191 Lok Sabha constituencies have voted, in numbers significantly lower...
The perennial concerns around religious conversions in India are hinged upon two frequently repeated arguments: (a) that conversions are a western...
India’s climate change actions are critical in arresting a freefall into a dangerous temperature threshold. This assumes significance as India is...
Kolkata: On April 29, a teacher died by suicide in Bengal. Birendranath Soren belonged to a tribal community in Bhutsahar village of Bankura...
New Delhi: The UN’s top judicial body will rule on Tuesday on Nicaragua’s case concerning whether Germany should halt its military aid to...
Politics in India has undergone an incredible transformation, almost impossible to visualise a decade ago. The catalyst for this change is...
In September 1993 Shimon Peres, then Israel’s foreign minister, stopped by Princeton University for a speech after addressing the United Nations....
For the past few years, every time I have travelled overseas, or foreign friends have come calling, they inevitably ask me, “How is it to be Muslim...
After the end of the second phase of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, a few key takeaways emerge 1) The voter is fed up of lies, spin-doctoring and...
The disinformation factory of Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has been using OBC reservation to Muslims provided by the Karnataka...
New Delhi: After some of their spice mixes were banned in Singapore and Hong Kong, Mahashian Di Hatti (MDH) Pvt Ltd is back in the news following a...
New Delhi: Reports have emerged carrying details of a first information report against Hassan MP Prajwal Revanna, the grandson of former Prime...
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has issued notice in a plea by former Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren challenging his arrest by the Enforcement...
New Delhi: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat has called a video of him doing the rounds on social media, in which he can be seen...
As the electoral contest gathers momentum, agrarian issues are receiving the attention they deserve, albeit with differing emphases, depending on...
New Delhi: China continues to ramp up infrastructure along the Line of Actual Contol (LAC) by strengthening its military positions and deploying...
New Delhi: A survey conducted in the UK among British Indians or Indians living in that country has revealed that 52% of them have a negative view...
New Delhi: Launching his poll campaign in Odisha on April 25, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and Union home minister Amit Shah termed chief...
Hyderabad: Amid a heated exchange between the Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) at the national level over the issue of reservations, the...
New Delhi: The unnamed Indian government official accused by US authorities of directing the alleged plot to murder pro-Khalistan lawyer Gurpatwant...
New Delhi: India summoned the Canadian deputy high commissioner on Monday to protest the slogans of “Khalistan zindabad” aired during a Khalsa...
Chandigarh: The Congress party has created a flutter in Punjab by fielding many of its heavyweights, including former chief minister and state...
Saakhi is a Sunday column from Mrinal Pande, in which she writes of what she sees and also participates in. That has been her burden to bear ever...
When 65 Indian construction workers landed in Israel on April 2 to start jobs once taken by Palestinians, they were flying into a firestorm....
“It’s the call of the hour that we renounce the path of violence and take the path of brotherhood.” No, that’s neither former Prime...
There is a tide in the affairs of men Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life/is bound in shallows...
Street lamps flickered under the cold nip of the night as the residents of an increasingly urbanised upper-middle-class apartment complex of...
On April 20, an X account which purports to document Jewish hate on campus shared a video of a woman chanting in back-and-forth style the...
New Delhi: Unlike the last two Lok Sabha elections, there is no overt communal factor playing out this time in Uttar Pradesh even though the...
Mount Abu (Rajasthan): On December 16, 2023, India confirmed its first JN.1 strain Covid-19 patient, a 79-year-old woman in Kerala. Within the next...
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Friday (April 26) rejected Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP and former Wresting Federation of India (WFI) head Brij...
New Delhi: The slump in the voter’s turnout continued even in the second phase of the Lok Sabha elections, in which 88 constituencies across 13...
New Delhi: Despite a notice by the Election Commission of India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s openly communal remarks accusing the Congress of...
Dungarpur-Banswara (Rajasthan): In Rajasthan the elections are done, the EVMs are under close watch awaiting counting. But some changes do not stop...
Dev Patel’s Monkey Man is all over the place. It’s also from all over the place. The film is a tribute to Hindu deity Hanuman, references the...
“So, what did it mean to you, the singing?…Expression, she will reply, and release.” Thus begins the first life story in the book, What is...
New Delhi: Though the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) has no prominent Scheduled Castes party in its fold, barring the...
The Supreme Court (SC) verdict on Electronic Voting Machines is extremely disappointing and disheartening to see as a citizen of India who...
Will the General Election 2024 go down in history as one incubated in the era of Artificial Intelligence (AI)? A conclusive answer to this question...
New Delhi: Over 100 environmental and human rights organisations, alongside more than 400 individuals, have called for the immediate rollback of...
New Delhi: Speaking at an election rally in Araria, Bihar, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the Supreme Court judgment on EVMs on Friday was a...
New Delhi: The Congress has raised a strong objection to the Narendra Modi government’s decision to approach the Supreme Court seeking permission...
Nation-making is a tough business. Israel should know. In response to growing labour demand in Israel and to deepen their political relationship,...
Jumlas, or false promises, have become an integral part of electioneering in India to sway public sentiment. In the last three days, wealth...
The State Bank of India (SBI) is India’s largest bank by assets and the government’s most prestigious bank. Formerly the Imperial Bank of India...
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday rejected all the pleas seeking a full count of all voter-verifiable paper audit trail (VVPAT) slips...
In the award-winning Sea of Poppies, Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh immortalised the journey of 19th century indentured labour migrants— called...
New Delhi: Residents of a Muslim-majority village in Assam’s Karimganj parliamentary constituency have approached a local court against nine...
Disturbing reports continue to emerge about mass graves in Gaza in which Palestinian victims were reportedly found stripped naked with their hands...
Srinagar: The call for rescheduling the election for the Anantnag-Rajouri Lok Sabha constituency has triggered a major political row, with the...
New Delhi: Defence minister Rajnath Singh has again been forced to say the BJP will not change the basic structure of the Indian constitution nor...
Hisar/Jind (Haryana): “I had only two acres of land. My son was passionate about joining the army. He was preparing for it for the past 4-5...
Amroha: Under the shadow of communally-laced comments by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and chief minister Yogi Adityanath, Amroha voted on Friday,...
The people of Surat will not vote in this election. May 7 is listed as the polling date, but the city has already got its MP. Bharatiya Janata...