New Delhi: Italian envoy Antonio Bartoli on Monday said his country is confident that culture will continue to be a vehicle for friendship and interaction between people and societies of Italy and India, fostering greater mutual understanding and “ever and ever stronger bonds”. Bartoli was addressing a gathering at the inauguration of an exhibition –…
Online Desk Lionel Messi further cemented his legacy as one of football’s all-time greats by scoring a brilliant brace against Austria to become the FIFA World Cup all-time leading scorer as Argentina beat Austria 2.0. The Argentina legend now has 18 goals at the global showpiece – following his hat-trick in the opener against Algeria…
Ulaanbaatar: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar met his Mongolian counterpart Battsetseg Batmunkh on Monday and reviewed progress in bilateral cooperation in development projects, capacity building, security and multilateral fora. Jaishankar, who arrived in Ulaanbaatar on the first leg of a two-nation visit, also called on Mongolian President Khurelsukh Ukhnaa and conveyed greetings from President Droupadi…
New Delhi: National Security Adviser Ajit Doval on Monday held “constructive” talks with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi focusing on key aspects of bilateral engagement, including progress in normalisation of the ties that came under severe strain during the over four-year eastern Ladakh border standoff. Wang is in New Delhi to attend a BRICS conclave….
Lucknow: Four individuals have been arrested in connection with a fire incident at a commercial building in the Aliganj area of Lucknow, which resulted in the deaths of 15 people, police said on Monday night. Officials said the accused are joint owners of the building. An FIR has been filed at the Aliganj police station…
There are years when economic growth dominates headlines, and there are years when uncertainty becomes the story itself. Going by the latest research report from State Bank of India (SBI), 2026 could well belong to the latter category. The message emerging from the Reserve Bank of India’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) minutes is unmistakable: policymakers…
The Supreme Court’s latest observation that “we don’t want to open a Pandora’s box with regard to the proceedings of the collegium” may have been made in the context of a Himachal Pradesh judicial officer challenging his non-elevation to the High Court. Yet, the statement has inadvertently reopened a much larger debate: if the collegium…
Indian politics is witnessing a fascinating churn. The once-rigid walls separating political parties are beginning to crack, regional satraps are reassessing their equations, and cross-party defections are creating a new parliamentary arithmetic that may soon deliver what many consider long-pending structural reforms for the nation. For the first time in years, there is a realistic…
Upadhyayula Lakshman Rao In the measured cadence of the Trishtubh metre, the seer Dirghatamas lifts his consciousness toward the radiant mystery of the Aswa, the divine horse, whose birth he proclaims as resplendent and universally adored. This is no ordinary creature of flesh and motion, but a symbol that gathers within itself the energies of…
Sanjaya spoke: O King Dhritarashtra, your forces, swelling with fervent zeal for battle and overflowing with pride, arrayed themselves in the mighty Śakata-vyūha, the formation shaped like a vast war-cart, resplendent with ornaments and the arrogance of power, as though eager to swallow the opposing host. Upon the right wing stood Jayadratha and Bhagadatta, supported…
