For decades, the Congress party and its allies have treated the idea of a national caste census with contempt or cowardly silence. From Nehru to Indira to Rajiv Gandhi, successive Congress governments made sure the Indian state remained blind to the actual caste and religious composition of its citizens. Now, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi…
Islamabad: Pakistan has appointed spy chief Lt Gen Muhammad Asim Malik as the new National Security Adviser (NSA) amidst raging tension with India. Malik was appointed as the director general of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) in October 2024. According to a notification issued by the Cabinet Division on Tuesday, General Malik was formally given the…
Vijayawada: Andhra Pradesh Congress president Y S Sharmila has asked Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu about the need to build the capital city with money taken as a loan. She demanded that Prime Minister Narendra Modi announce a grant of Rs 1.5 lakh crore for the construction of Amravati as the capital and asserted that…
Chennai: Shreyas Iyer and Prabhsimran Singh made well-measured fifties after a splendid hat-trick by Yuzvendra Chahal as Punjab Kings’ four-wicket victory knocked five-time champions Chennai Super Kings out of this season’s IPL play-off race here on Wednesday. Riding on the late four-wicket haul from Chahal (4/32), including a hat-trick, PBKS bowled out CSK for 190,…
New York/Washington: The US has encouraged India and Pakistan to de-escalate tensions, reaffirming its commitment to cooperate with Delhi against terrorism and urging Islamabad’s cooperation in investigating the “unconscionable” Pahalgam terror attack. Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke separately with External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar and Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday. In his…
New Delhi: The Congress on Wednesday welcomed the government’s decision to include caste enumeration in the forthcoming census and demanded allocation of funds to start work at the earliest. Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge said the government should allocate funds to initiate caste census at the earliest with complete transparency, while former party chief Rahul Gandhi…
New Delhi: At least 30 shops were gutted in a massive fire at the Dilli Haat, a popular market in south Delhi’s INA area, on Wednesday night, the Delhi Fire Services said. No casualty was reported in the incident, it said in a statement. Delhi Tourism Minister Kapil Mishra said the fire has been brought…
At long last, the caste census will be part of the official national Census, with the Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs giving it the green light. This is a historic decision—politically astute, constitutionally sound, and socially consequential. But predictably, the Opposition is already squabbling to claim credit for a move that exposes its past duplicity….
Dr Buragadda Srinadh A day born from the struggles of workers and the vision of thinkers like Karl Marx, May Day celebrates the dignity of labour. But today, in an age of Artificial Intelligence, robotics, and digital revolutions, it must also be a moment of reflection on how work itself is evolving, and how trade…
“A thorn in the eye of Hindi literature: Independent women” The Hindi literature world still cannot digest the real independent and enlightened women. They want a female writer of the kind they want. She should write on soft issues, family, society, some psychology, and man-woman relationships. For them, the synonym of modernity or a modern…
