I woke up today with a profound, unexplainable sense of connection to my late parents. Yielding to modern habit, I opened WhatsApp, only to be met with an extraordinary sight. My screen was filled with messages from students, colleagues, and friends, including several from across the world I hadn’t heard from in years. Reading how…
New Delhi: The CBI on Tuesday filed a chargesheet against 13 accused in the NEET UG 2026 paper leak case, including three paper experts, two associated with coaching centres, middlemen and several beneficiary candidates, officials said on Tuesday. In its chargesheet filed before a special court, the CBI invoked charges of criminal conspiracy, cheating, criminal…
Washington: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he had an “excellent” meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House on Tuesday, their first sit-down since launching a joint war against Iran and it offered Netanyahu a chance to smooth out strains in their relationship. The closed-door meeting lasted nearly an hour and a half…
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Tuesday said the right to protest does not extend to damaging the “seat of sovereignty,” and a police officer’s image cannot be “tarnished” over an alleged “overuse of power” during the July 20 march to Parliament against the NEET paper leak. Justice Girish Kathpalia made the observations while…
M.S. Sparsha Ask any Indian who made the country’s first motion picture and the answer, almost instinctively, is Dadasaheb Phalke. And rightly so. His Raja Harishchandra (1913) occupies an honoured place in our cinematic history as India’s first full-length feature film. But history sometimes forgets its earliest dreamers. Twelve years before Phalke ever bought a…
The Supreme Court’s directive asking the Centre to extend relief to those below 18 years of age identified by the police for inclusion in the FIRs being prepared in connection with the recent Jantar Mantar agitation by the social media-based Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) is welcome. More importantly, however, is the apex court’s unequivocal observation…
Political criticism is intrinsic to parliamentary democracy. So is the Opposition’s right to question the government of the day. But when political rhetoric begins to overshadow facts, particularly while discussing individuals whose professional accomplishments are a matter of public record, it deserves closer scrutiny. The controversy erupted during the parliamentary debate on the Public Examinations…
(……..Contd.) Former President Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam once remarked that dreams are not those which we see while sleeping, but those that do not let us sleep. Dreams become meaningful only when they disturb our conscience and compel us to act. Perhaps, that is where Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy’s dreams differ from Dr. Kalam’s…
Lakshmanrao Upadhyayula The venerable sage Śaunaka Gṛtsamāda, one of the illumined seers of the Ṛgveda, invokes the mighty Lord Indra in majestic Triṣṭubh metre, the rhythmic cadence most often employed for hymns of heroic power and spiritual exaltation. In the Vedic vision, a mantra is not merely poetry; it is a vibratory force perceived by…
As the mighty Kaurava host beheld the swift advance of Arjuna and Krishna, a strange mixture of fear, reverence, and foreboding arose within their hearts. The two heroes, sounding their resplendent conches, moved with effortless majesty through the field, as though the very currents of destiny bore them onward. Princes and warriors rushed to obstruct…
