Ranchi: Police will analyse CCTV footage to identify miscreants who disrupted “peaceful” students’ protests here on Monday over alleged irregularities in Jharkhand recruitment examinations, officials said. A senior police officer also said 14 personnel were injured during the protesting job aspirants’ march to the assembly during the day. The agitation entered the 17th day on…
Dehradun: The Kanwar Yatra witnessed a record turnout this year, with around 4.43 crore devotees returning home with Ganga water from Haridwar by Monday evening, police said. Around 63.60 lakh pilgrims reached Haridwar on Monday alone and collected Ganga water, police officials said. The Kanwar Yatra began on July 30, coinciding with the beginning of…
New Delhi: Parliament on Monday passed the Taxation and other Laws (Amendment) Bill, with Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman making clear that the legislation does not impose any tax on UPI and the digital payment system will remain free for consumers. The Bill, which was passed by the Lok Sabha last week, was returned by the…
Lucknow: Temples across Uttar Pradesh reverberated with chants of ‘Har Har Mahadev’ and ‘Bam Bam Bhole’ as large numbers of devotees and kanwariyas thronged Shiva shrines on the second Monday of the holy month of Sawan, officials said. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath performed Rudrabhishek and a ‘havan’ at the Gorakhnath temple on Monday afternoon to…
MS Shanker There is a growing need to distinguish between a genuine democratic protest and a politically engineered confrontation masquerading as a student movement. The distinction is not difficult to make if the entire evidence available in the public domain—including live television footage, CCTV recordings, police video, social-media posts and investigative findings—is examined objectively. A…
In 1973, psychologist Paul Slovic ran an experiment on eight professional horse race handicappers that has become a fixture in behavioural finance research. The design was simple. The implications for anyone who equates more research with better decisions are not. The Setup Slovic worked with men who handicapped races for a living, not casual bettors….
M Radha Madhavi India’s banking sector today tells a striking before-and-after story. A decade ago, banks—particularly public sector banks—were weighed down by a mountain of stressed and hidden loans. Today, their balance sheets are considerably healthier, capital positions stronger and the level of bad loans has fallen to a historic low. The transformation did not…
Lakshmanrao Upadhyayula The venerable sage Śaunaka Gr̥tsamada, one of the illumined seers of the Ṛg Veda, offers this profound hymn in the Jagatī and Anuṣṭubh metres, invoking the deities who govern the cosmic order, the sacrificial process, the lunar phases, and the subtle powers that sustain life. In Vedic thought, every movement of nature is…
The mighty Bhūriśravā and the valiant Sātyaki confronted one another in a dreadful and furious encounter upon the field of Kurukṣetra, each accusing the other with harsh and piercing words born of ancient hostility and wounded pride. Then, like enraged elephants maddened in the wilderness, they rushed against each other, discharging ceaseless torrents of arrows…
Melancode Devi Temple is situated at Melancode near Kumaracoil in Kanyakumari district, Tamil Nadu. It is close to the historic town of Padmanabhapuram and the famous Kumaracoil Murugan Temple. The temple lies in the scenic landscape of the old Nanjil Nadu–Travancore region, surrounded by greenery and hills. The exact age of the present temple is…
