Chennai: Rain triggered by Cyclone Ditwah, which entered the open sea inching towards Tamil Nadu coast, lashed the coastal areas and the Cauvery delta districts on Saturday. A tourist van got stranded in an area marooned near a canal in Ramanthapuram district. The occupants, however, had a providential escape as they managed to step out through…
New Delhi: IndiGo, Air India, and Air India Express flight operations will see disruptions as they work on fixing a potential issue related to flight controls in their A320 family planes, and 200-250 aircraft will be impacted in the country, according to sources. Airbus on Friday said intense solar radiation might corrupt data critical to…
U Lakshman Rao Samuel P. Huntington’s 1993 thesis, The Clash of Civilizations, was once dismissed as alarmist, reductive, even Islamophobic. Three decades later, a spate of global events has resurrected his core argument in a new avatar—what some commentators now call “Clash of Civilizations 2.0.” This updated version isn’t about ideological blocs or Cold War…
Johannesburg: President Cyril Ramaphosa said his US counterpart Donald Trump’s announcement that South Africa will not be invited to the G20 during America’s presidency was “regrettable”. Trump has continued with “punitive measures” despite efforts and numerous attempts by President Ramaphosa and his administration to reset the diplomatic relationship with the US, the presidency said in…
Moscow: The Russian lower house of Parliament is set to ratify a crucial military pact with India ahead of President Vladimir Putin’s state visit on December 4-5 for the 23rd bilateral summit, according to reports. Signed on February 18, 2025, in Moscow by the Indian Ambassador Vinay Kumar and erstwhile Deputy Defence Minister Alexander Fomin,…
Kanpur/New Delhi: Former Union minister and veteran Congress leader Sriprakash Jaiswal died in Kanpur on Friday following a cardiac arrest. He was 81. Jaiswal was first taken to a nursing home in Kidwai Nagar in the evening after his condition worsened and then shifted to the Cardiology Hospital, where doctors declared him dead on arrival….
Kolkata: The Election Commission on Friday appointed retired IAS officer Subrata Gupta as the ‘Special Roll Observer’ for the SIR exercise in West Bengal, an official said. The EC also appointed 12 IAS officers as ‘Electoral Roll Observers’ to oversee the key aspects of preparation of the electoral rolls following the SIR and help the…
Raipur: Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Friday that the three hotspots that had become a “festering wound” for India — Naxalism, the northeast, and Jammu and Kashmir — have been given “permanent solutions” by the Narendra Modi government, and these regions will soon become like the rest of the country. In his inaugural…
By Ramu Chilimella Invictus FinServ LLP has underscored the importance of disciplined, long-term investing through a striking comparison of two oil-rich nations—Venezuela and Norway—whose divergent economic trajectories offer powerful lessons for individuals, families and entrepreneurs seeking lasting financial security. According to Invictus, true wealth is not measured by how quickly it is accumulated but by…
Over the past few years, India has quietly but steadily transformed its literacy landscape. Spearheaded by our most dynamic Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government’s ambitious policy push—rooted in the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, the NIPUN Bharat Mission, and ULLAS (the New India Literacy Programme)—this drive is now delivering visible, measurable results across…
