Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Monday called upon Durga Puja organisers to uphold traditional religious practices and spiritualism during the festival, urging them to avoid unhealthy competition and preserve the neighbourhood spirit of the celebrations. Inaugurating the Tala Prottoy Durga Puja in north Kolkata, Adhikari called for a renewed emphasis on spiritualism…
New Delhi: President Droupadi Murmu on Monday appointed six governors, moving Keralam Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar to Tamil Nadu and Sikkim Governor Om Prakash Mathur to Keralam. Arlekar, who was sworn in as Keralam Governor on January 2, 2025, had been holding the additional charge of Tamil Nadu since March 12 this year. Sikkim Governor…
Kolkata: India and America are expanding cooperation across sectors, including defence, IT and healthcare, with investments and joint initiatives creating significant opportunities for both countries, US Ambassador to India Sergio Gor said on Monday. Speaking at a programme here to mark 250 years of America’s Independence, Gor highlighted the growing partnership between the two countries,…
New Delhi: Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi has invited INDIA bloc MPs for a high tea at his residence on Tuesday, sources said. They said a discussion on the strategy for joint protests against “vote chori” (vote theft) and to press for Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar’s resignation is expected…
MS Sparsha How Itty Achudan’s botanical wisdom survived three centuries to reclaim its place in history In April 1675, inside a Dutch fort in Cochin, a traditional Indian physician signed a certificate in an old Malayalam script that few people today can read. The document authenticated the botanical knowledge he had shared with a Dutch…
Foreign investors sold ₹3.16 lakh crore of listed Indian equities in the first nine months of 2026. The Nifty fell about 13 per cent in rupees and 18 per cent in dollars. The easy conclusion is that foreign selling is the problem. It is not the whole problem. South Korea has seen roughly $126.7 billion…
The spiritual history of India is not a history of isolated doctrines competing with one another; it is a continuous civilisational conversation in which the deepest questions of existence were repeatedly asked, challenged, refined and experienced. The Vedic seers contemplated the relationship between man, nature, the elements and the cosmic order. The Upanishadic sages turned…
युधामन्युश्च विक्रान्त उत्तमौजाश्च वीर्यवान्। सौभद्रो द्रौपदेयाश्च सर्व एव महारथाः॥ The opening movement of the Bhagavad Gita presents a remarkable psychological picture of the battlefield. Duryodhana, having surveyed the assembled armies at Kurukshetra, approaches his preceptor Drona and begins describing the strength of the forces standing against him. His words are not merely a military enumeration;…
Lakshmanrao Upadhyayula The sacred hymn attributed to the great sage Vishwamitra, composed in the majestic Triṣṭubh meter of the Ṛgveda, is a profound invocation to the divine Aśvins, the celestial twin deities celebrated as healers, protectors, and swift benefactors of humanity. Their presence in the Vedic tradition symbolizes the harmonious union of divine intelligence and…
Dussasana, consumed by rage, hurled a heavy pestle at Bhīma with all the strength he possessed. Bhīma shattered it effortlessly. At that very moment, the agonies of thirteen long years surged through his heart like a storm. Every humiliation, every sorrow, and above all, the unbearable memory of Draupadī’s dishonour in the royal assembly blazed…
