Chennai: Voting for the Tamil Nadu Assembly election commenced at 7 AM on Thursday, amidst tight security, with people briskly lining up in front of the polling stations across the state. The key contenders for power are the ruling DMK and main opposition AIADMK, while actor-politician Vijay-led TVK and Tamil nationalist Seeman-led NTK are putting…
Kolkata: Voting began on Thursday in 152 constituencies in the first phase of the West Bengal assembly elections, amid unprecedented security arrangements and a high-stakes battle that could shape the direction of the entire contest. Polling started at 7 am with voters queueing up outside booths in districts ranging from Darjeeling and Jalpaiguri in the…
Why the generation that invented YOLO is eating its future — one impulse purchase at a time. In 1972, a Stanford psychologist named Walter Mischel sat four-year-old children down in a room, placed a single marshmallow in front of each of them, and made them an offer: eat it now, or wait fifteen minutes and…
Lucknow: Lucknow Super Giants batters, led by their mercurial skipper Rishabh Pant, let Mohammed Shami’s brilliant bowling effort go down the drain with an embarrassing 40-run defeat at the hands of an equally profligate Rajasthan Royals in an IPL match here on Wednesday. Chasing a target of 160, LSG huffed and puffed before being shot…
Dantewada: Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai on Wednesday hailed the visit of cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar to the Bastar region, once a Maoist stronghold, saying his tour was a matter of pride for the state and a strong source of inspiration for children and youth. The Mumbai-based master blaster, a Bharat Ratna awardee, made…
New Delhi: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh held talks with his German counterpart Boris Pistorius in Berlin on Wednesday to bolster the strategic partnership, and the two sides inked an agreement for a defence industrial cooperation roadmap, officials said. In his remarks, Singh said that the menace of terrorism in all its forms and manifestations must…
New Delhi: The Election Commission on Wednesday issued a show-cause notice to Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge for calling Prime Minister Narendra Modi a “terrorist”, saying the remarks were “highly objectionable” and amounted to prima facie violation of the Model Code of Conduct (MCC) in place for the ongoing Assembly elections. The EC asked him to…
Today is World Earth Day There is something profoundly symbolic about Earth Day coinciding with Ganga Saptami—a reminder that what the modern world now rediscovers as “environmental consciousness” has, in India, always been a way of life. Long before climate summits, carbon credits, and sustainability reports became fashionable, this land quietly nurtured a civilisation that…
When this Atman, which dwells in the body, gets detached and is freed from the body, what remains here (in this body). This is verily that. There is a direct reference to death, and it says that Atman leaves the body. We must understand that it is the conditioned consciousness, the jiva, which leaves the…
The sage Gouthama, born of the lineage of Rahugana, raises his voice in solemn praise within the measured rhythms of Pankti and Jagati chandas, composing hymns that resonate through the sacred expanse of the Rigveda. In a tranquil yet spiritually charged atmosphere, the seer contemplates the grandeur of Indra, whose might once shattered the cosmic…
