The Congress may be celebrating a bypoll victory in Kerala’s Palakkad constituency, but beneath the surface, the party is in deep and irreparable turmoil. One electoral win does not hide the festering crisis within, especially when one of the party’s most articulate, internationally admired, and electorally viable leaders—Shashi Tharoor—is showing all signs of drifting away….
New Democracy? (Editorial space is empty) During the Emergency, newspapers left their editorial columns blank in protest. Today, there is no formal censorship, but self-censorship, fear, and stifling of ideas in the name of ‘patriotism’. Asking questions has become treason, and editorials have now become spokesmen for the establishment. At a time when every word…
At a time when global crises demand clarity, restraint, and the gravitas of leadership, President Donald Trump has once again chosen expletives over eloquence. His public use of the F-word the other day about the Iran–Israel conflict marks yet another low in presidential rhetoric, dragging the discourse around international conflict into a space more fit…
The Axiom-4 mission to the International Space Station (ISS) on SpaceX Dragon spacecraft atop a Falcon-9 rocket lifted off majestically from NASA’s Kennedy Space Centre today, 25 June 2025, at 12:01 IST with four crew onboard. While this is a small step for ISRO, it is a giant leap for Bharat because the SpaceX Dragon…
New Delhi: Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla scripted history by embarking on a space odyssey along with three others to the International Space Station as part of a commercial mission by Axiom Space on Wednesday. The much-delayed Axiom-4 mission blasted off from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida at 12:01 pm IST towards the ISS amid…
Kolkata: Union Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal said India is firmly on track to become a USD 5 trillion economy by 2027 despite global turbulence, driven by a collective national effort and strong leadership under Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Speaking at a virtual session organised by the Merchants’ Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MCCI),…
New Delhi: After multiple delays, Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla and three others are all set to travel to the International Space Station on Wednesday, with SpaceX announcing that the weather was 90 per cent favourable for lift-off. “All systems are looking good for Wednesday’s launch of @Axiom_Space’s Ax-4 mission to the @Space_Station and weather is…
New Delhi: In a scathing attack on the Modi government, the Congress on Wednesday alleged that over the past eleven years, Indian democracy has been under a systematic and dangerous five-fold assault that can be best described as “Undeclared Emergency@11”. The opposition party also claimed that there has been “unbridled hate speech and a crackdown…
Mumbai: Sensex, Nifty Today: A day after a volatile trading session, the Indian equity benchmark indices, the Sensex and Nifty, started on a positive note on Wednesday, June 25, 2025, amid positive global cues. The 30-share BSE Sensex opened at 82,448.80, with a gain of 393.69 points, and the Nifty started the trading session at 25,150.35,…
New Delhi: Ahead of the release of a book on Emergency, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Wednesday that the period was a learning experience for him and reaffirmed the vitality of preserving the democratic framework. ‘The Emergency Diaries – Years that Forged a Leader’, which highlights Modi’s fight for the “the ideals of democracy”,…
