Tehran: Iran launched ballistic missiles at two US-operated air bases in Jordan on Sunday, state media reported, hours after US forces struck Iranian rocket launchers on Larak Island in the Strait of Hormuz, in the first American strikes on Iran in a month. Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said the missiles targeted technical infrastructure, maintenance facilities and…
Dubai: Veteran Indian all-rounder Deepti Sharma on Sunday became the leading wicket-taker in women’s T20 Internationals with 171 wickets, during their 94-run rout of Thailand in the Women’s Asia Cup here. Deepti achieved the feat in her 150th T20I for India, becoming only the third Indian after Harmanpreet Kaur (203) and Smriti Mandhana (172) to…
Islamabad: Pakistan and Saudi Arabia have agreed to increase Islamabad’s agricultural and food exports to Riyadh to USD 3 billion over the next two years, according to a joint statement on Sunday. The agreement was reached during Saudi Minister of Environment, Water and Agriculture Abdulrahman A Al-Fadley’s visit to Pakistan from August 26 to 28….
New Delhi: Union Minister Kiren Rijiju on Sunday took serious exception to protesters allegedly desecrating the Indian flag outside the New York venue where RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat addressed an event. Posting a purported video of the protest on X, Rijiju said, “We always said, you have freedom to criticise RSS, BJP or government. But…
MS Sparsha For years, the equation was brutally simple. If India wanted advanced artificial intelligence, cloud computing and massive computing power, it had to largely depend on technology companies from the United States and other global giants. The servers were owned by companies such as Google, Amazon and Microsoft. Computing power was rented, often in…
MS Shanker The Congress and its political allies may not like it, but they can no longer conveniently dismiss the RSS as a communal organisation without confronting a rather uncomfortable question: what exactly does its chief, Mohan Bhagwat, mean when he unequivocally says that a Hindu who believes Muslims should not live in Bharat is…
There are some infrastructure projects whose importance goes far beyond the concrete, steel and wires that go into building them. They change the destiny of an entire region. The Srinagar–Alusteng–Drass–Kargil–Khaltsi–Leh 220 kV Transmission Line is one such project. On February 3, 2019, Prime Minister Narendra Modi formally dedicated this remarkable piece of high-altitude infrastructure to…
Lakshmanrao Upadhyayula The great sage Vishwamitra, endowed with profound spiritual insight, invoked the divine presence of Agni through the majestic metres of Bruhathi and Tristubh found in the sacred hymns of the Rigveda. In these exalted invocations, Agni is not merely the visible flame kindled upon the sacrificial altar, but the eternal cosmic principle hidden…
The true spirit of unity was powerfully expressed by Dhrishtadyumna, who reminded the warriors that they were assembled for a single sacred purpose—the triumph of righteousness. He questioned why personal hostility should endanger an opportunity secured through immense labour, sacrifice, and the blood of countless warriors, kings, and princes. Yet his words failed to calm…
Sri Kadambavaneswarar Temple is a small and lesser-known ancient Shiva temple located at Erumbur in Cuddalore district, on the Sethiyathope–Virudhachalam road. During the Chola period, Erumbur was known as Urumur, and the temple was referred to as Urumur Siru Tirukkoyil Perumanadigal. Though modest in size, it preserves an important chapter of early Chola temple history….
