As India’s aviation market expands, the real race is shifting beyond passenger numbers to the businesses, investments and economic ecosystems taking shape around its airports. India’s airport story has long been told through passenger numbers, which remain the clearest indicator of how quickly Indians are taking to air travel and have been reinforced by the…
Lakshmanrao Upadhyayula In the sacred assemblies of the Vedic seers, when the dawn spread its first rays across the silent horizon and the altar fire rose toward the heavens, the venerable sage Śaunaka Gṛtsamada lifted his voice in the stately cadence of the Jagatī metre to invoke Brahmanaspati, the Lord of the Sacred Word. In…
Sanjaya said to Dhritarashtra: “O King, it is no exaggeration, nor the utterance of empty praise, to declare that there was scarcely a prince, warrior, or monarch in your vast host who did not feel the sting of the arrows of Satyaki. The strength of his arms was undiminished, and his mastery of the bow…
Sri Varadarajaswamy Temple is located in Singapura, near Jalahalli, in Yelahanka Taluk of Bengaluru Urban District, Karnataka. Situated atop a small hill overlooking the historic village of Singapura, this ancient Vaishnava temple is one of Bengaluru’s oldest surviving shrines dedicated to Lord Vishnu. The temple is dedicated to Sri Varadarajaswamy, the compassionate bestower of divine…
New Delhi: The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on Tuesday dismissed the “so-called” local body elections in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) as a “complete farce”, saying such exercises cannot conceal the “reality” in the region. The MEA also condemned Pakistan’s alleged brutal crackdown on protesters in PoK, saying the international community should see through Islamabad’s “flimsy…
Chennai: Former Tamil Nadu Deputy Chief Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin was on Tuesday arrested for his alleged “double-meaning” remark alluding to popular actor Trisha and insulting her modesty, police said. Udhayanidhi was arrested and taken to Thanjavur in a police van. The DMK leader was arrested for his alleged remark at a protest meeting held at…
New Delhi: India’s Commonwealth Games medallists barely had time to celebrate their success before shifting their focus to next month’s Asian Games as they returned to a rousing welcome in the national capital in the early hours of Tuesday. Even as the athletes walked out of the airport to a rousing welcome, they spoke in…
New Delhi: AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday said his party’s campaign against E20 fuel would continue and urged people to join the protest in large numbers if they wanted to stop its implementation. Addressing a press conference after leading a march towards the Prime Minister’s residence with petitions opposing E20 fuel, Kejriwal said…
Our Sports Reporter Hyderabad: The Telangana Cricket Association (TCA) has strongly opposed the Hyderabad Cricket Association’s (HCA) recently announced district expansion programme, alleging that the exercise violates judicial directives, the BCCI Constitution and established governance norms. In official press release issued here on Tuesday, TCA General Secretary Dharam Gurva Reddy alleged that the district committees…
Washington: Twenty-five states sued the Trump administration Monday over its latest tariffs, calling them a pretext for replacing import taxes the Supreme Court struck down in February. The United States last month imposed double-digit tariffs on 59 countries and the European Union, charging that they had not done enough to crack down on imports produced…
