Sangareddy (Telangana): The toll in the explosion at the Sigachi Industries’ pharma plant in Pashamylaram has risen to 35, a senior police official said on Tuesday. “Several bodies have been found under the debris while removing it. As many as 31 bodies have been extricated from the debris, while three died in the hospital while…
Birmingham: A call on premier pacer Jasprit Bumrah playing the second Test will be taken in the next 24 hours but India assistant coach Ryan ten Doeschate is pretty sure that his team will take the field with two spinners at Edgbaston. There is a growing clamour to include wrist spinner Kuldeep Yadav in the…
Islamabad: Pakistan on Monday urged India to resume the normal functioning of the Indus Waters Treaty, which New Delhi has held in abeyance since May, saying the recent decision by the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague showed that the agreement was still “valid and operational”. India has never recognised the proceedings at the Permanent…
United Nations: An exhibition hosted by India, highlighting the human cost of heinous terrorist acts perpetrated across the world — from the Pahalgam terror attack to 9/11 — was unveiled at the United Nations headquarters on Monday. External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar inaugurated the solemn exhibition titled “The Human Cost of Terrorism”, organised by…
Dharamshala: Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Monday called for making legislatures more efficient by managing resources, defending democracy, and adopting innovations like Artificial Intelligence (AI). Inaugurating the Annual Conference of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) India Region, Zone-II here, Birla urged the state legislatures to share best practices, innovations, and technology to strengthen democratic…
United Nations: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Monday urged the global community to unite in ensuring that terrorists face no impunity, are not treated as proxies, and that there is “no yielding to nuclear blackmail”, as he asserted that India’s response to the Pahalgam attack underlines a message of zero tolerance towards terrorism. Jaishankar,…
The mask of democracy in Pakistan is slipping—fast. With General Asim Munir now emerging as the de facto ruler, backed by a puppet coalition led by Shehbaz Sharif, Islamabad’s fragile civilian façade stands exposed. This isn’t just Pakistan’s familiar military overreach. This is the clearest indication yet that the country is hurtling toward a thinly…
A new writer has arrived – and the vultures of the market have woken up With the emergence of new female writers, the way their body, age, and smile are traded in the literary markets instead of their creativity is a deep and shameful truth. Stage, criticism, role, respect – everything becomes a trap. This…
If Prime Minister Narendra Modi were even a fraction of what Ramachandra Guha believes he is, this column would not exist. And if it did, I would be writing it from a prison cell – if not under house arrest, then certainly under gag order. There is a strange new game in India’s elite drawing…
Preamble Hijacked: Undoing the Politics of the 42nd Amendment The words “Secular” and “Socialist” were not part of the original Constitution adopted on 26 January 1950. These were inserted later through the 42nd Constitutional Amendment during the Emergency in 1976—an authoritarian period under Indira Gandhi’s rule. Today, there is a growing chorus among jurists, constitutional…
