Thursday might not have favoured India’s 18-year-old Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa in the FIDE World Cup at Baku, Azerbaijan’s primate city. World No.1 Magnus Carlsen defeated him 2.5-1.5 in the tiebreaker to lift the chess title with a prize money of $1,10,000. He might have lost to Carlsen, yet he is the third Indian to accomplish such…
The perfect soft touch down of the Chandrayan 3 mission on the moon’s surface on 23 August 2023 at the scheduled time of 6:04 pm demonstrates India’s prowess in space research and technology that matured over the last 61 years since the inception of Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) in 1962. The Indian National Committee…
The crucial moments are approaching and tension, if not excitement, not only among the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) scientists as well as other major space players like the US, China, Russia, Japan, Canada and Israel but also every Indian. The countdown for the Chandrayaan-3 has begun when the Lander got separated from Rover on…
A sudden spurt in rape cases across the country has once again brought the issue to the debating table in the public domain over failing laws as well as the slow judicial process to ensure justice for the victims. The last political storm that rocked the nation was when a Delhi girl, Nirbhaya, was gang…
Sharad Pawar, the Maratha-strong man who is a ‘master strategist’ in cobbling up alliances among political parties, appears losing his credibility in politics, thick and fast. He might have succeeded in forging a grand tie-up between his Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), the Congress and the hard-core Hindutva proponent, the Shiv Sena, by forming the Maha…
The Supreme Court’s refusal to stay the uploading of data collected in the recently-concluded Bihar caste-based survey by the Nitish Kumar government is welcome. Those who are opposing it argue that it violates the fundamental right to privacy, by compelling people to reveal their caste, which indeed sounds stupid and also ridiculous. The reason is…
After a long-long time, interesting arguments challenging the apex court’s sharp observations equally appear to have been countered by the defense counsel of the Gujarat state Government in the release of the convicts of the Bilkis Bano gang rape case. Interestingly, the exchange of heated arguments also exposes perceptions as well as interpretations differences between…
With the general elections just eight months away, the Times Now ETG seems to be the first to come out with an opinion poll on possible verdicts set to go in favour of which party or alliance. As usual, the emergence of alliances of Opposition parties in a bid to challenge the rightist Bharatiya Janata…
Finally, the Opposition in its new avatar as Indian National Democratic Inclusive Alliance (I.N.D.I.A.) seems to have got a stick to beat with the ruling dispensation led by Narendra Modi on graft charges. That the recent Comptroller and Auditor-General (CAG) report flagged some discrepancies in the database of a centrally sponsored health scheme and the…
India and Pakistan are celebrating their 76th anniversary of Independence from colonial British India. But the wounds and stains while parting between predominant provinces of both the Hindu and Muslim communities are yet to fully heal. It may be difficult to fix blame on any individual or groups for the undoing of unity among these…
