Nashik: Maharashtra onion farmers have urged the Centre to announce a special Rs 10,000 crore revival package, claiming that repeated export curbs, natural calamities, and price crashes have pushed them into a severe financial crisis. Bharat Dighole, founder-president of the Maharashtra State Onion Growers Farmers Association, said that farmers have suffered huge losses over the…
New Delhi: Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Saturday called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and briefed him on the “headstart” the NDA 3.0 government is making in the state. Sarma took oath as the chief minister of Assam for the second consecutive term on May 12. This is the NDA’s third consecutive government…
Kolkata: Trinamool Congress supremo and former chief minister of West Bengal Mamata Banerjee on Saturday expressed shock over the attack on party MP Abhishek Banerjee and raised questions over both the security arrangements in place and the circumstances surrounding his treatment at a hospital afterwards. Addressing reporters here on Saturday night, Banerjee claimed that an…
Kolkata: Confusion prevailed over the hospitalisation status of TMC national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Saturday evening, with a private hospital here allotting him a bed in its Intensive Therapy Unit while maintaining that the injuries sustained by him were superficial and did not warrant admission. Banerjee was taken to a private hospital after complaining…
Vinay Rao TG20: A Windfall That Deserves Better The logo launch was at a five-star hotel. So was the player auction. Corporate tables, polished backdrops, press cameras — HCA signalled that TG20 was a serious commercial property. Franchise owners believed it. The combined franchise bids came in at close to ₹50 crore — dwarfing what…
This is an article series. Please read all previous articles before reading this article. The URLs for all previous articles are located in the SPECIAL THOUGHTS section. Previously, we had learnt that the Devata-s in Level 7 and up are referred to as the Aantarika Prapancha Devata-s. We had also learnt that the hierarchical Levels…
Upadhyayula Lakshman Rao The sage Puruchhepa, standing within the sacred continuum of the Rigveda, raises his voice in measured devotion, shaping hymns in the solemn cadence of Antheysti and Triṣṭubh metres. His invocation is not merely a ritualistic utterance, but a profound alignment of human aspiration with cosmic order. He calls upon Indra, the wielder…
Vaisampayana said to Janamejaya that when Duryodhana, his courage shaken upon the field of battle, withdrew in despair, the tidings pierced the heart of the blind monarch Dhritarashtra with grief and anxious foreboding. Eager to know what followed that humiliation, the king questioned Sanjaya, son of Suta, desiring to hear what course his son had…
Then Palani Murugan Kovil is a revered Murugan temple located in Senneer Kuppam near Poonamallee in the western part of Chennai, Tamil Nadu. The shrine is especially cherished by devotees who seek the blessings of Palani Murugan without undertaking the long pilgrimage to Palani. Then Palani Murugan Kovil is a relatively modern temple compared to…
Kolkata: TMC national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee was roughed up on Saturday, allegedly by locals, when he visited West Bengal’s Sonarpur area to meet families of post-poll violence victims, police said. Stones, shoes and eggs were hurled at the TMC MP by unidentified people who even attempted to rain blows and kicks on him, while…
