Delhiites now know everything there is to know about pollution in their city. It’s a multilayered curse: vehicular and industrial emissions, construction dust and burning of waste, topped each winter with smoke that blows in from farm fires in Punjab and Haryana. No less than the Chief Justice of India, Justice Surya Kant, complained of…
It was the afternoon of December 4, and the Kempegowda International Airport in Bengaluru had lost all sense of order. The departure boards blinked, then froze. Airline counters stood deserted, as people wandered around dazed and confused. Hundreds of bags lay scattered across the terminal, unattended and unclaimed. It would have been an unsettling sight…
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s long-delayed summit with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, his first in four years, unfolds at a moment when US president Donald Trump is violently rearranging the global chessboard. A time when the world is sharply polarised by war, sanctions and shifting power centres, forcing nations to rethink old assumptions and quietly redraw…
BJP poll machine | The new battle fronts Source link
“Modiji, I want to go back home. The cry cut through the crowd that had gathered in Churachandpur on September 13 to see Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He was visiting Manipur 28 months after the state was wracked by ethnic violence in May 2023, which left 258 dead, 62,000 displaced and 4,786 houses burned. The…
It was past midnight, days before the second phase of polling in Bihar, and Patna was all but asleep. At Hotel Maurya, though, a heavily curtained suite on the upper floors was showing signs of hectic activity. On a bare sofa, Union home minister Amit Shah was deep in the middle of another review. No…
Heinous murders | Shameful conviction rates Source link
On November 20, as Nitish Kumar, the 74-year-old patriarch of the Janata Dal (United), walked up to take oath as the chief minister of Bihar for a record tenth time, he stepped into a tenure laden both with promise and the weight of expectation. He had decimated not just a younger, energetic opponent in Tejashwi…
The message the Jammu & Kashmir Police posted on social media site X at 6:10 pm on November 10 was short and terse: “You can run but can’t hide!” It was directed at Umar un-Nabi, a 32-year-old doctor at Al-Falah Hospital in Faridabad. He was among the last key members of a white-collar terror module…
It took 11 attempts, but the Indian women’s cricket team are finally world champions. And make no mistake—this wasn’t destiny, nor a stroke of luck. It was the culmination of a system that has been building, brick by brick: the skyrocketing popularity of the women’s game, the Women’s Premier League, pay parity and the unflinching…
