New Delhi: Minister of State for External Affairs Pabitra Margherita has attended a mourning ceremony for Iran’s late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The ceremony was organised by the Iranian embassy on Sunday to pay respect to the departed leader on the 40th day (Chehelum) of his demise. Khamenei was killed in an Israel-US strike…
Thiruvananthapuram: Senior Congress leader V D Satheesan has written to the EC urging it to immediately publish detailed polling data related to the Kerala Assembly elections held on April 9. In a letter addressed to the Chief Election Commissioner, he pointed out that despite three days having passed since polling concluded, the official and authenticated…
New Delhi: Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Monday asserted the real issue with the government’s move to bring bills in a special sitting of Parliament this week is delimitation, not women’s reservation, and claimed that the reported delimitation proposal is “extremely dangerous” as well as an “assault on the Constitution itself”. Gandhi stressed…
West Bengal today stands at a dangerous crossroads—not merely politically, but demographically and institutionally. And at the heart of this churn is the increasingly desperate rhetoric of Mamata Banerjee, whose latest allegation of a “₹1,000 crore deal” to split minority votes is less a political charge and more a revealing confession of insecurity. Let’s call…
Mumbai: The last rites of legendary singer Asha Bhosle will be performed at Shivaji Park in Mumbai on Monday afternoon with state honours. Bhosle, who not only survived in the shadow of her sister’s greatness but stepped out of it with a genre-defying voice to create her own universe in Hindi playback singing, died on…
Mumbai: Royal Challengers Bengaluru skipper Rajat Patidar, Phil Salt and Virat Kohli blasted half-centuries as the defending champions beat Mumbai Indians by 18 runs in an Indian Premier League match here on Sunday. Salt (78 off 36 balls) and Kohli (50 off 38 balls) stitched together a 120-run stand for the opening wicket before Patidar…
Talwandi Sabo: Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Sunday said the Centre has decided to shift the border fencing closer to the International Border (IB), emphasising that the move will bring major relief to farmers who have long been forced to cultivate under tight BSF restrictions. With surveys now ordered across border districts, the move will…
Amaravati: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu will inaugurate India’s “first indigenously developed”, open-access quantum computer test beds—Amaravati 1S and 1Q—on April 14 at SRM University, marking a major step in building a cutting-edge technology ecosystem. The inauguration, coinciding with World Quantum Day, will also be held virtually at Medha Towers in Gannavaram as…
There are voices we admire, and then there are voices that quietly become the soundtrack of our lives. Asha Bhosle belongs to the latter—effortlessly, timelessly, almost invisibly. You don’t merely listen to her; you grow up with her, fall in love with her songs, and somewhere along the way, realise she has been there in…
Why not Sooryavanshi now? That question is not just about one player—it is about a pattern that Indian cricket has flirted with for decades. The tendency to delay, to overthink, to hold back raw talent until it is no longer raw but riddled with doubt. Take the case of Shreyas Iyer. Here was a flamboyant,…
