Lucknow: Temples across Uttar Pradesh reverberated with chants of ‘Har Har Mahadev’ and ‘Bam Bam Bhole’ as large numbers of devotees and kanwariyas thronged Shiva shrines on the second Monday of the holy month of Sawan, officials said. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath performed Rudrabhishek and a ‘havan’ at the Gorakhnath temple on Monday afternoon to…
MS Shanker There is a growing need to distinguish between a genuine democratic protest and a politically engineered confrontation masquerading as a student movement. The distinction is not difficult to make if the entire evidence available in the public domain—including live television footage, CCTV recordings, police video, social-media posts and investigative findings—is examined objectively. A…
In 1973, psychologist Paul Slovic ran an experiment on eight professional horse race handicappers that has become a fixture in behavioural finance research. The design was simple. The implications for anyone who equates more research with better decisions are not. The Setup Slovic worked with men who handicapped races for a living, not casual bettors….
M Radha Madhavi India’s banking sector today tells a striking before-and-after story. A decade ago, banks—particularly public sector banks—were weighed down by a mountain of stressed and hidden loans. Today, their balance sheets are considerably healthier, capital positions stronger and the level of bad loans has fallen to a historic low. The transformation did not…
Lakshmanrao Upadhyayula The venerable sage Śaunaka Gr̥tsamada, one of the illumined seers of the Ṛg Veda, offers this profound hymn in the Jagatī and Anuṣṭubh metres, invoking the deities who govern the cosmic order, the sacrificial process, the lunar phases, and the subtle powers that sustain life. In Vedic thought, every movement of nature is…
The mighty Bhūriśravā and the valiant Sātyaki confronted one another in a dreadful and furious encounter upon the field of Kurukṣetra, each accusing the other with harsh and piercing words born of ancient hostility and wounded pride. Then, like enraged elephants maddened in the wilderness, they rushed against each other, discharging ceaseless torrents of arrows…
Melancode Devi Temple is situated at Melancode near Kumaracoil in Kanyakumari district, Tamil Nadu. It is close to the historic town of Padmanabhapuram and the famous Kumaracoil Murugan Temple. The temple lies in the scenic landscape of the old Nanjil Nadu–Travancore region, surrounded by greenery and hills. The exact age of the present temple is…
New Delhi: The National Testing Agency (NTA) on Monday said it will publish the provisional answer key for the UGC-NET June 2026 examination on its official website this week. The NTA will also release answer keys for CSIR-NET and ICAR AIEEA (PG) and AICE (PhD) 2026 examinations. “The provisional answer keys for the UGC-NET June…
New Delhi: The Congress on Monday said the opposition’s demand for statements by Home Minister Amit Shah on alleged police brutalities against students and by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the Ram temple donation “theft” on the floor of the House cannot be delinked in a last-ditch effort by the government to break opposition unity….
New Delhi: (Aug 10) In a relief to Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee, the Supreme Court on Monday permitted him to travel abroad for three weeks for eye treatment, brushing aside the West Bengal government’s apprehension that he may not come back due to 16 pending cases against him. A bench of Chief Justice Surya…
