Ranchi: Agitators from the Kurmi community, who launched a railway blockade in Jharkhand demanding ST status and inclusion of their Kurmali language in the Eighth Schedule, on Sunday withdrew the stir from all but two stations following the Centre’s assurance of a meeting with Union Home Minister Amit Shah to discuss the matter. The agitation…
MS Shanker A short video doing the rounds on social media has ignited speculation: Did Prime Minister Narendra Modi narrowly escape an assassination attempt during his recent visit to Beijing for the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit? The clip links together several threads — Modi’s remarks about “safe return” from international trips, his drive with…
New Delhi: As political temperatures rise in Bihar ahead of the upcoming Assembly elections, Union Minister Kiren Rijiju has reignited the debate over electoral malpractice by sharing a controversial video from the 1990s that allegedly exposes booth capturing under the Lalu Yadav-led RJD government. Taking to social media platform X (formerly Twitter), Rijiju posted a video…
Mirzapur/Gonda (UP): BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) ministers at the Centre and in the Uttar Pradesh cabinet on Saturday criticised Rahul Gandhi, calling him irresponsible in the wake of his vote-theft charge. Apna Dal (S) chief and Union Minister Anupriya Patel, during a visit to her constituency, Mirzapur, said that Rahul Gandhi is a senior…
Wayanad(Kerala): Congress MP Rahul Gandhi on Saturday said that democratic spaces are being shut down across the country, denying people places to have open discussions with each other. Rahul, also the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, was speaking after inaugurating, along with his sister and Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, an auditorium in…
New York/Washington: The H-1B visa fee of USD 100,000 would apply only to new applicants, a White House official clarified on Saturday. The clarification came a day after President Donald Trump signed a proclamation raising the fee on the visas used by companies to hire workers, including from India, to live and work in the…
When Even the Balls Were Fixed Stadium chairs are bad enough. But cricket without balls? That’s not just corruption — that’s sacrilege. Yet the HCA managed to pull it off, with the finesse of a street-corner hustler palming cards. The forensic audit uncovered the great cricket ball scam of 2020–22. It revolved around two shady…
So, Donald Trump did the unthinkable. He hiked the H1-B visa fee to a jaw-dropping $100,000 a year. Indians screamed, IT firms panicked, and WhatsApp groups of US-obsessed engineers went into collective mourning. “What about our dream?” they cried. Ah, the great American Dream—otherwise known as the great Indian Obsession. To them I say: stop…
There are years when nothing happens, and then there are days when years happen. The cloudbursts in Dehradun in Uttarakhand and Mandi in Himachal Pradesh in September 2025 close on the heels of similar events in these states earlier in July and August elucidate and echo this sentiment. Similarly, the city of Hyderabad witnessed cloudbursts…
Yesterday, at Chandigarh Air Base, the roar of the MiG-21 echoed for the last time. The famed No. 23 Squadron “Panthers” flew its final ortie, marking the Indian Air Force’s farewell to a warhorse that dominated our skies for over six decades. For me, as a soldier who once watched these jets streak across the…
