Politics is not merely about winning elections. It is equally about managing relationships, accommodating differences and building trust among allies. The Congress party seems to have forgotten this fundamental principle. The visible cracks appearing in the INDIA alliance today are perhaps less about the BJP’s political dominance and more about the Congress party’s inability to…
Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir Police launched one of its biggest crackdowns across the Union Territory on Wednesday after the killing of a policeman in a targeted terrorist attack in Anantnag. Officials said around 2,000 suspected Over Ground Workers (OGWs) – a term for those working or supporting terrorist groups – have been taken into…
New Delhi: Even as the Opposition MPs protested and raised slogans against the government outside Parliament on Wednesday, a meeting at the Prime Minister’s Office has raised political eyebrows. NCP (SP) chief Sharad Pawar and his daughter and MP Supriya Sule met Prime Minister Narendra Modi at his office on Wednesday. In pictures from the…
New Delhi: A day after Rahul Gandhi and senior Congress leaders staged a sit-in protest outside Prime Minister Modi’s residence over the NEET row, the Congress came under fire from its INDIA bloc allies for not taking all members into confidence before the protest. The issue came up at the INDIA bloc meeting on Wednesday…
New Delhi: Calling paper leaks a serious issue that should not be politicised, Union Health Minister JP Nadda on Wednesday said the Centre was ready for a comprehensive discussion on the NEET-UG paper leak in Parliament. He said the Narendra Modi government was “responsible and responsive” and prepared to discuss all aspects of the issue….
By all conventional measures of success, Professor Ashoke Sen should have spent his life in the world’s most celebrated scientific institutions. He had studied at some of the finest centres of learning, worked at America’s premier physics laboratories, won one of the richest prizes in science worth $3 million—nearly three times the Nobel Prize money—and…
M Jaishree “Kṛṇvanto Viśvam Āryam” translates into English as, “Make the whole world noble,” or “Let the entire world be uplifted into nobility.” This celebrated Vedic declaration expresses neither ethnic identity nor social privilege; rather, it proclaims a universal calling to cultivate wisdom, righteousness, compassion, discipline, and enlightened living. In the Vedic understanding, an Ārya…
For centuries, we were taught to see ourselves through borrowed eyes. We learnt more about ourselves from colonial historians than from our own civilizational memory. We were told Bharat was mythology and India was history. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Perhaps, no ancient civilization has suffered such intellectual colonisation as Bharat. Its history…
Shrikant Rao A Czech tractor icon is ending nearly eight decades of manufacturing in Brno and moving production to India. The decision is about far more than costs. It reflects the changing economics of global manufacturing, strengthens VST’s international standing and reinforces India’s emergence as one of the world’s most important tractor manufacturing ecosystems. For…
People forget how quickly the world can change. In February 1965, Charles de Gaulle stood before the world’s press at the Élysée Palace and said the one thing no Western leader was supposed to say out loud: the world should return to gold. Not the dollar. Not promises. Gold, because it “has no nationality” and…
