Waived or recovered? The ₹6.15 Lakh Crore Banking Myth
₹6.15 lakh crore! The number is certainly spectacular enough to make headlines, trigger outrage and provide ready-made ammunition for those who want to portray the Modi government as the great benefactor of corporate defaulters. But there is just one small problem with the screaming headline: ₹6.15 lakh crore of loans written off by Public Sector…
Rajasthan reports 55 cases of H1N1 in August, highest monthly count so far
JAIPUR: (Aug 27) Rajasthan has reported 55 positive cases of H1N1 in August, the highest monthly count so far this year, health department officials said on Thursday. With the latest cases, the state has recorded a total of 146 cases of H1N1 or swine flu cases since January 2026, they said. Health and Family Welfare…
Nepal-Tibet flash floods: Toll surges to 392; nearly 1,500 missing as fresh flood threat looms
Kathmandu: The death toll from the massive Nepal-Tibet flash floods rose to 392 on Thursday, as rescuers raced against time to trace hundreds of people still missing, including 290 Indian nationals. Of the 392 victims, 389 died in the flash floods in Nepal, while three were killed in neighbouring Tibet. A Nepal Police statement said…
Pakistan’s military says security forces killed 49 militants in raids in northwest and southwest
Islamabad: Pakistani security forces acting on intelligence raided multiple militant hideouts in the country’s northwest and southwest, killing 49 militants, the military said Friday, as authorities intensify operations against insurgents amid a surge in militant violence. Twelve militants were killed in separate operations this week in northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, which borders Afghanistan, the military…
RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat true believer in US-India ties: Indian-American venture capitalist
New York: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat interacted with leaders and executives from various industries at a roundtable here, with an Indian-American venture capitalist highlighting his “unshakable confidence” in Indian youth and describing him as a “true believer” in US-India friendship. Bhagwat is in New York for a three-day visit as part of…
The Price Is Lying
Most retail investors think they are picking stocks. They are not. Three structural forces now decide most of the return, and almost nobody names them out loud. Force One: Your Money Is No Longer Yours To Direct Every month, more new savings go into index funds and ETFs than into actively managed funds. In the…
Congress Rattled, Forces Targeted
The Congress party appears to have discovered a new national obsession: demanding explanations for what the Indian armed forces may or may not have done during Operation Sindoor. Its latest target is former Chief of Defence Staff General Anil Chauhan, whose off-the-cuff observation about the possibility of a Bharatiya drone striking the Kiran Hills area…
Heaps of garbage, cities of disease
We’re aware of the importance of keeping our homes clean, but as soon as we step outside, our sense of responsibility vanishes. Many people have developed the habit of throwing household items on the roadside, in drains, in vacant lots, or in public places. Plastic bags, polythene, vegetable peels, fruit scraps, and leftover food are…
Who Says Telugus Never Showed Grit and Resilience?
There is a popular tendency to speak of history as though the South merely watched helplessly whenever invading armies swept across the Deccan. That narrative does a grave injustice to the people who fought, resisted, and reclaimed their homeland. The story of the Telugu people in the fourteenth century is one of the most striking…
What ‘Secularism’ really means in Bharat
The 2024 Lok Sabha election in Baharampur offered a political lesson that went far beyond one constituency, yet very few seemed interested in reading it. Yusuf Pathan, a 41-year-old cricketer from Vadodara, Gujarat, entered West Bengal politics as an outsider and defeated Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, the 68-year-old Congress veteran who had represented Baharampur for five…
