Chennai: With polling for the Tamil Nadu Assembly election concluded on April 23, the election commission officials shifted the sealed EVMs, VVPATs, and other poll material to the strong rooms of the designated counting centres across the state. The EVMs were transported with heavy police and armed forces protection to 62 counting centres where the…
Washington: The RSS is not an Indian version of the Ku Klux Klan, the American white supremacist group, RSS General Secretary Dattatreya Hosabale said here, highlighting the organisation’s work across different spheres of society. Speaking at an interactive session at the New India Conference organised by the Hudson Institute, Hosabale said there are misconceptions about…
How can threats of bombardment and invitations to negotiate coexist in the same breath? That contradiction sits at the heart of the current West Asia crisis—and at the centre of the diplomatic posture adopted by Donald Trump. It is not merely confusing; it risks being counterproductive at a moment when clarity, credibility, and consistency are…
Mumbai: Sanju Samson carried his bat with a splendid 101 not out, while Akeal Hosein’s stunning 4/17 powered Chennai Super Kings to a crushing 103-run victory over a listless Mumbai Indians in their Indian Premier League clash here on Thursday. Samson stood tall with a 54-ball 101 (10x4s, 8x6s) in the first half, which took…
Islamabad/Washington: President Donald Trump on Thursday ordered the US Navy to “shoot and kill” any Iranian boat that is putting mines in the Strait of Hormuz, even as Pakistan stepped up diplomatic engagements to bring America and Iran to the negotiating table for the second round of talks. In a social media post, Trump also…
Kolkata: The Election Commission on Thursday issued a fresh set of post-poll guidelines for the West Bengal assembly election, laying down strict protocols for handling surveillance cameras and video data after voting concludes, a senior official said. Under the new guidelines, SD cards used in polling booth cameras cannot be removed immediately after voting ends,…
Kolkata/Chennai: West Bengal registered a record voter turnout of 92.72 per cent in the first phase of assembly polls on Thursday amid sporadic incidents of violence, while Tamil Nadu recorded unprecedented voting of 85.14 per cent as the BJP pushed to unseat Mamata Banerjee in Bengal and expand in the South. In the first phase,…
The moment of reckoning has finally arrived for Hyderabad cricket. For far too long, the system has oscillated between denial and damage control, while the rot deep within has been allowed to fester unchecked. Today, as the Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA) begins to show faint signs of movement—be it the belated filling up of vacant…
If democracy is measured not just by ballots cast but by the belief that those ballots truly matter, then the recent surge in voter turnout in West Bengal and Tamil Nadu deserves far more than a passing mention. It demands a hard look at what changed—and why. Credit, where it is due, must go to…
When political rhetoric descends into name-calling, it often reveals more about the speaker’s predicament than the target. Mallikarjun Kharge’s recent remark branding Narendra Modi a “terrorist” is one such moment—less a serious allegation, more a reflection of a party grappling with shrinking relevance and mounting electoral anxieties. The Indian National Congress has struggled to regain…
