Singapore: India, a founding member of the Regional Cooperation Agreement on Combating Piracy and Armed Robbery against Ships in Asia (ReCAAP), is set to deepen its engagement with the Singapore-based Information Sharing Centre (ISC) of the grouping, its Executive Director Vijay D Chafekar has said. “We expect closer cooperation with the Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre…
Navi Mumbai: Mumbai Indians bounced back from their opening match defeat with an easy win over Delhi Capitals in the Women’s Premier League here on Saturday and captain Harmanpreet Kaur credited the victory to “believing in yourself” and coming out to play with a positive mindset. MI lost to Royal Challengers Bengaluru by three wickets…
Navi Mumbai: Defending champions Mumbai Indians (MI) bounced back within 24 hours of their 2026 WPL season opening loss to seal an emphatic 50-run victory over Delhi Capitals (DC) at the DY Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai on Saturday. Nat Sciver‑Brunt and captain Harmanpreet Kaur set the tone with authoritative knocks of 70 and 74…
Vijayawada: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Saturday said that some people are “jealous” of the pace at which Amaravati is being built, and are dreaming of stalling the greenfield capital city’s development, which is “unstoppable”. Addressing an event at a private college in Vijayawada, the chief minister said that Amaravati will be…
Somnath (Gujarat): A mega drone show featuring several planned thematic formations, including huge images of Lord Shiva and a ‘shivling’, and a 3D depiction of the Somnath temple, lit up the night sky near the ancient shrine here on Saturday. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who arrived here in the evening on a two-day visit to…
Veraval (Gujarat): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday described Somnath as a symbol of “our civilisational courage” as he landed in the famous temple town to attend `Somnath Swabhiman Parv’ events. Starting his three-day visit to Gujarat, he witnessed a drone show and presided over a meeting of the Shree Somnath Trust as its chairman….
One of the great myths sold to the public—especially by so-called opinion-makers in television studios and editorial rooms—is that national consensus is achievable on complex issues of statecraft. In reality, consensus has rarely existed, at least not in any meaningful or durable form, within functioning democracies. Not in my lifetime, and certainly not in any…
Jawaharlal Nehru and Narendra Modi, two Prime Ministers of different era, are as different as chalk and cheese, the former being naïve and docile and the latter bold, pragmatic, and practical. While Nehru’s contributions in modernizing Indian agriculture, dairy, core industries, and education cannot be denied, his non-alignment and foreign policy proved a damp squib…
In recent times, myofascial pain syndrome, herniated disk, and sciatica have been reported frequently to the medical centres, which are mostly prominent causes for the backache. A herniated disc or slipped, ruptured disc means the soft, jelly-like center of a spinal disc pushes out through a tear in its tougher exterior ring, irritating nearby nerves…
The public mistreatment of senior Hindi fiction writer Manoj Roopda during a literary event held at Guru Ghasidas University, Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, is not just an unfortunate incident but a clear indication of the deepening crisis in academic and cultural life in our times. Humiliating an invited writer on stage and asking him to leave the…
