Jabalpur: Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav on Monday said the Congress will be wiped out from the entire country after the 2029 Lok Sabha polls. Addressing a gathering after the BJP’s “Loktantra Bachao, Arajakta Hatao” padyatra (foot march) here, he targeted Opposition leader Rahul Gandhi while referring to the Emergency imposed by then prime…
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Governor Anandiben Patel on Monday stressed the need for accurate and comprehensive data collection during Census-2027, saying the exercise would form the basis for future development plans, budget allocation and delivery of welfare schemes. Addressing a programme at Jan Bhavan here on the second phase of the census, Patel said the self-enumeration…
New Delhi: SAD MP Harsimrat Badal has submitted a breach of privilege complaint to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla against a senior Punjab Police official for “dismissing” her concerns over the death of a youth in Mansa due to alleged drug overdose, and sought his intervention “to protect the effective discharge of Members’ functions”. Sources…
Lucknow: The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Monday reviewed preparations for the 2027 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections in 18 districts across four divisions and directed senior officials to strengthen voter lists, security arrangements and personnel training to ensure free, fair and peaceful polling. The review meeting was chaired by Senior Deputy Election Commissioner Manish…
My cricketing career may not have been a long one, but it gave me the rare privilege of meeting, watching and playing alongside some of the finest cricketers India has produced. Looking back, I owe a big thank you to M.L. Jaisimha and, above all, the Almighty for giving me those unforgettable experiences. Cricket is…
Why a better inequality score is encouraging, but not the complete economic picture India’s reported Gini Index score of 23 has attracted considerable attention, placing the country among the more equal societies in the world according to the World Bank’s latest available data for 2023. It is an encouraging indicator, particularly for a country of…
In Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass, the Red Queen tells Alice that in her country, “it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place.” That line has become one of the most powerful metaphors in competitive strategy and behavioural finance. The Red Queen Effect describes a world in which every…
Bapudeva Shastri – The Man Who Lost His Memory but Rewrote India’s Astronomical Calendar MS Sparsha Imagine a child who loses virtually everything he has learnt because of a devastating illness, only to rebuild his knowledge from scratch and emerge as one of India’s most distinguished scholars of mathematics, astronomy and Vedic astrology. This is…
The Kena Upanishad stands as one of the most profound expressions of the intellectual courage, spiritual inquiry, and philosophical depth of ancient Bharata Varsha. Its brilliance lies not merely in the answers it offers, but in the extraordinary questions with which it challenges the human intellect. What impels the mind to think? Who directs the…
**तस्य सञ्जनयन् हर्षं कुरुवृद्धः पितामहः । सिंहनादं विनद्योच्चैः शङ्खं दध्मौ प्रतापवान् ॥** When Duryodhana was occupied with issuing instructions to his commanders, his outward confidence concealed a growing anxiety within. His words, rather than inspiring complete confidence, were beginning to place his officers in an uncomfortable state of tension. His repeated attempts to direct and…
