New Delhi: India opener Sanju Samson on Tuesday admitted criticism and outside noise do affect him but experience has taught him to deal with it, while backing the leadership group for taking tough selection calls, keeping the team’s interests in mind. Samson, who smashed a brutal 57 off 22 balls in India’s seven-wicket win over…
Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh Cabinet, chaired by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday approved the free transfer of 26 hectares of barren land in Ayodhya’s Milkipur tehsil to the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) for setting up a regional hub of the National Security Guard (NSG). The land, spread over around 65 acres in…
New Delhi: Ending nearly six years of fully free UPI payments, the government on Tuesday introduced a 0.4 per cent fee on transfers worth more than Rs 2,000 made to merchants through the platform from October 15 while explicitly ring-fencing everyday person-to-person transactions as well as small payments from any charge. “Customers will not be…
Vinay Rao Here’s a question that sounds simple but isn’t: should the richest, best-run sports body in India have to follow the same rules as every other one? That’s what the Supreme Court asked BCCI on 8 September 2026. Not “you’re guilty of something.” Just: explain yourself. Why shouldn’t you and every state cricket association…
Every year, on the full-moon night of Kartik Purnima, thousands of people gather along the banks of the Mahanadi in Cuttack, Odisha, to float tiny handmade boats on the water. Made from paper, bamboo sticks, dried banana bark and pieces of cork, these little boats are more than colourful symbols of a festival. They carry…
For nearly 460 years, generations have looked at a map of the world without necessarily realising that they were looking at a mathematical compromise. The familiar world map was never designed to show the true size of countries and continents. It was created primarily to help sailors navigate. Yet a navigational tool gradually became something…
Lakshmanrao Upadhyayula The seer, illumined by divine vision, extols Agni through sacred hymns composed in the Anuṣṭubh, Triṣṭubh, and Jagatī metres of the Ṛgveda. These hymns reveal Agni not merely as physical fire, but as the radiant principle that unites the mortal and divine realms. He is celebrated as the celestial priest, the bearer of…
Today’s Mahabharata episode was inadvertently published as a repetition of the earlier Infinity Flow post. The inconvenience is regretted. — Editor When the appointed hour arrived for the destruction of the three impregnable cities, the great Lord Shiva blazed forth in immeasurable wrath. Standing as the Supreme Archer, He lifted His celestial bow and fastened…
Sri Mahavishnu Temple at Nidvala in Aivatoklu village of Sullia Taluk, Dakshina Kannada, is an ancient and revered Vaishnava shrine dedicated to Lord Mahavishnu in his Chaturbhuja, or four-armed, form. The temple is closely associated with the history and traditions of Tulunadu and is believed to have been established around the 14th–15th century under the…
Mumbai: Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and Shiv Sena president Eknath Shinde on Tuesday backed Union Home Minister Amit Shah on the proposed introduction of the Uniform Civil Code in NDA-ruled states, saying Sena founder late Bal Thackeray had envisioned the common law for all. “‘Hinduhridaysamrat’ Balasaheb Thackeray’s vision was ‘one country, one law’ with equal…
