Srinagar: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Sunday made a forceful plea for the restoration of statehood to Jammu and Kashmir without further delay, and indicated that all avenues, including legal options, were being explored by the ruling National Conference in this regard. Nearly ten months after the National Conference swept to power in the Union…
Tirupati: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Saturday called for the elimination of plastic to protect the environment, claiming that “excessive use of plastic can lead to cancer”. Addressing a meeting in Tirupati as part of the ‘Swarna Andhra-Swachh Andhra’ initiative, Naidu said that plastic has become “the biggest demon” threatening the environment….
Kochi: Congress Working Committee (CWC) member Shashi Tharoor on Saturday said that the nation comes first and parties are the means of making the country better. Tharoor, the MP from Thiruvananthapuram, said that the objective of a party is to create a better India, and parties have the right to disagree on the best way…
New Delhi: INDIA bloc parties on Saturday resolved to raise during the Parliament’s Monsoon session the issues of Pahalgam attack terrorists not being brought to justice, US President Donald Trump’s repeated claims of brokering a ‘ceasefire’ during India-Pakistan hostilities and the special intensive revision of electoral rolls in Bihar that the opposition alleges “threatens people’s…
Has being a Brahmin in today’s India become a stigma? Are we witnessing a silent social witch-hunt of an entire community under the garb of “historical justice”? Sadly, yes. Across the country, Brahmins—despite their contributions in shaping India’s intellectual, administrative, and cultural legacy—are increasingly being vilified, shamed, and targeted. The hatred isn’t subtle anymore; it…
Clubs, Cronies and Corruption: Anatomy of HCA’s Collapse By MS Shanker As promised, this week’s episode focuses on the root causes behind the tragic, systematic, and largely self-inflicted decline of Hyderabad cricket. At the heart of this rot lie two unholy forces: a cartel of affiliated clubs and a coterie of self-serving former cricketers who,…
A Kolhapur man’s posthumous comeback after a jolt on the road is now a viral lesson in unexpected motivation. Sometimes, the only life coach you need is a civic engineering oversight. A curious old news snippet from last year has taken new life on social media, quite like its subject. The story, now doing the…
Literary pages have either completely disappeared from most newspapers today or are limited to mere formality. Writers are made to feel ‘favoured’ by publishing their works, but are not given respectable remuneration. Now, some owners are pretending to respect writers by making award schemes, whereas the basic need is the value of labour and a…
When fever is not under control even after 3- or 4-day rest, then one should not neglect that fever. It requires a proper clinical examination, and also based on the symptomatology, a set of blood tests has to be performed, starting from a simple total and differential leucocyte count, a blood smear for malaria, and…
In the annals of tennis history, few names resonate as powerfully as Rod Laver. Nicknamed “The Rocket” for his explosive playing style, Laver is celebrated not only for his prodigious talent but for achievements that remain unparalleled even today. His career, spanning from the late 1950s to the early 1970s, saw him conquer the sport…
