Mumbai: Ayush Mhatre was on Saturday named captain of the 15-member Indian side for the U-19 World Cup to be held in Zimbabwe and Namibia from January 15 to February 6 next year. However, along with Vihaan Malhotra, Mhatre will miss the preceding assignment to South Africa — a three-match ODI series — due to…
Dhaka: An internal rift overnight gripped the student-led National Citizen Party (NCP) over its proposed alliance with the Jamaat-e-Islami ahead of the Bangladesh election in February, with 30 of its leaders issuing a joint letter opposing the plan and two ranking members announcing their resignation. The NCP, a large offshoot of the Students Against Discrimination…
Kolkata: Senior TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee on Saturday said he would meet Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar on December 31 and urge him to publish the list of 1.31 crore voters who have been flagged for “logical discrepancies” during the SIR exercise. Addressing a press conference in Kolkata, Banerjee said he would give a…
New Delhi: Rural Development Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Saturday accused the Congress of spreading misinformation about rural employment, powers of Gram Panchayats and security of workers under the VB-G RAM G Act, calling its “allegations” baseless and misleading. On the day Congress announced the launch of a nationwide campaign against the repeal of the…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday chaired a national conference of chief secretaries where he had insightful discussions on various issues relating to governance and reforms, officials said. The conference marked another important milestone in strengthening the Centre-state partnership through structured and sustained dialogue on national development priorities, they said. “Had insightful discussions…
The world today is discovering—rather late in the day—that Islamic fundamentalism does not believe in borders, constitutions, or the comforting fiction of “pluralism.” From Nigeria to Bangladesh, from Gaza to Western capitals that still believe hashtags defeat ideology, the objective is neither coexistence nor reform. It is a conversion of land, law, and loyalty. Ask…
As a Political Analyst, I still believe the Constitution Matters A screaming headline in a local daily jolted me—not as a citizen alone, but as a political analyst who still naïvely believes that constitutional morality should matter in a republic. The report said Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy wants to seek the Congress high…
We discussed in the last issue about various causes of back pain and the overall picture of the evaluation of the back pain. In this issue the various modalities of treatment, broadly management and relief, correspond to the various minor and major sources. An attempt is made to illustrate a mammoth picture of back pain….
This is an article series. Please read all previous articles before reading this article. The URLs for all previous articles are located in the www.special thoughts section. Previous article was about maximizing the Punya one can earn through good Karma. This requires recalibration of one’s spiritual line of thought. Such a line of thought must…
Sage Gautama, desiring to test the depth of knowledge and conviction among the learned, raised a challenge before Sage Atri. Atri, wise and measured, perceived in this act not mere debate but the need to distinguish between the worth of a person and the sanctity of an institution—a principle, he thought, that would one day…
