Kolkata: The BJP legislature party is scheduled to meet in Kolkata on Friday in the presence of Union Home Minister Amit Shah to formally elect its leader, with Suvendu Adhikari emerging as the frontrunner to become the party’s first chief minister in West Bengal. The BJP registered a historic victory in the just-held assembly elections,…
MS Shanker The dramatic political developments in West Bengal have triggered intense constitutional debate across the country. Television studios are overflowing with legal experts discussing whether Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee could continue in office after refusing to resign, and what options remain before the Governor and the Union government. Yet, amid all the noise, many…
New Delhi: The BCCI on Thursday issued an eight-page directive for the 10 IPL franchises flagging off concerns about some serious breaches of protocols while setting Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) which will need to be strictly adhered to in near future. “The advisory has been issued in light of certain incidents observed during the ongoing…
Lucknow: Mitchell Marsh smashed a blistering century while Prince Yadav dazzled with the ball as Lucknow Super Giants kept themselves alive in the IPL playoff race with a nervy nine-run DLS win over Royal Challengers Bengaluru in their rain-curtailed clash here on Thursday. With as many as three rain interruptions causing close to an hour’s…
Chennai: The TVK held a crucial meeting of the party’s MLAs-designate here on Thursday to discuss government formation. A large number of newly elected members and also office-bearers who turned up for the meeting on Thursday evening at Panaiyur sought to know from party general secretary ‘Bussy’ N Anand when the TVK would form the…
Kolkata: Governor R N Ravi has dissolved the West Bengal State Legislative Assembly with effect from May 7 after completion of its term, according to an official notification. The current assembly was constituted in May 2021 after the Trinamool Congress, under the leadership of Mamata Banerjee, returned to power for the third consecutive term in…
Vinay Rao The battle to save Hyderabad’s iconic Kasu Brahmananda Reddy National Park is no longer merely an environmental issue. It has become a defining test of governance, urban planning, public accountability, and the government’s commitment to preserving the city’s rapidly vanishing green spaces. Despite mounting protests from citizens, environmentalists, walkers’ groups, wildlife activists, and…
Khalid Umar The ousting of Mamata Banerjee’s TMC comes as no surprise. In many ways, it was long overdue and perhaps inevitable in any genuinely free and fair democratic contest. The real shock is that she managed to cling to power for nearly sixteen long years. Partition Trauma West Bengal has endured immense suffering in…
Stop politicizing marriage; it’s time for partnership Marriage isn’t a power struggle, but rather a relationship of trust, respect, and responsibility between two individuals. However, in our society, marriage is often transformed from a partnership into a game of control, where one party seeks to impose its traditions and the other adopts a rigid stance…
Upadhyayula Lakshman Rao In the sacred cadence of the Trishtup metre, the sage Kutsa, son of Angirasa, raises a profound hymn to Indra, the luminous sovereign of the Vedic cosmos. The seers of old perceived Indra not merely as a deity of might, but as a dynamic principle manifest in the natural and spiritual order….
