Ahmedabad: E20 petrol can significantly reduce imports and substantially increase self-reliance, ONGC Director (exploration) Om Prakash Sinha said on Monday. Sinha was speaking at the curtain raiser for India Energy Week (IEW) 2027 organised at the ONGC Institute of Reservoir Studies in Ahmedabad. “E20 petrol is a challenge, but with technology there will also be…
Bhubaneshwar/Balasore: The Odisha government has shifted around 1.4 lakh people to safer locations over the past four days, as a fresh wave of flooding affected several districts, officials said on Monday. Revenue and Disaster Management Minister Suresh Pujari said the government has evacuated 1.4 lakh people from low-lying areas across 7,834 villages under 1,360 gram…
New Delhi: The Aam Aadmi Party on Monday held a sit-in outside the Vikaspuri police station demanding the registration of an FIR against Delhi PWD Minister Parvesh Verma for slapping a 22-year-old man during a road inspection in west Delhi’s Tilak Nagar. AAP Delhi president Saurabh Bharadwaj, along with party workers, sat outside the police…
MS Sparsha Some scientists make discoveries. Others build the scientific capability that makes discoveries possible. Professor Erode Subramanian Raja Gopal belonged to the second category—and, in doing so, became one of the important pioneers of experimental condensed-matter physics in Bharat. Known to colleagues simply as ESR, Raja Gopal spent much of his professional life at…
Duryodhana’s First Sign of Anxiety दृष्ट्वा तु पाण्डवानीकं व्यूढं दुर्योधनस्तदा। आचार्यमुपसंगम्य राजा वचनमब्रवीत्॥ Sanjaya continued his narration to King Dhritarashtra: Having assembled at Kurukshetra, the armies of the Pandavas and the Kauravas stood ready for the great confrontation. Each side had carefully arranged its warriors according to its military strategy. The battlefield had become a…
M Jaishree Human life, whether embodied in man or woman, appears on the surface to be driven by countless emotions—anger, excitement, ambition, desire, fear, and attachment. Yet beneath these changing currents lies a deeper and more enduring principle: love. Affection, self-respect, intimacy, compassion and concern are not merely emotional ornaments of human existence; they are…
The Supreme Court’s sharp questioning of Rahul Gandhi’s description of Veer Savarkar as a British “servant” exposed a fundamental problem with political narratives built on selective quotations: history cannot be reduced to a convenient sentence, a political slogan or a social-media meme. The Court’s intervention was particularly significant because the argument before it involved the…
Shekhar Maramraju In the modern hyper-connected era, internet folklore has an uncanny ability to morph into widely accepted alternative reality. Few subjects demonstrate this phenomenon better than the legend of the TR-3B “Black Manta”—a persistent aerospace rumour and unverified conspiracy theory that completely lacks official military proof, documentation, or physical evidence. The myth recently saw…
As Francis Fukuyama wrote, “major crises have major consequences, usually unforeseen.” Nowhere is this more apparent than in the Arctic Ocean/Sea of the 21st century. Commonly viewed as a “territory of dialogue,” the Arctic has, over the past three decades, won a reputation as a “zone of peace”. However, few places have been the source…
On 24 September 2026, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) approved a major overhaul of the portfolio management services (PMS) framework through the new SEBI (Portfolio Managers) Regulations, 2026, which replace the earlier 2020 regulations. One of the most significant innovations under this overhaul is the introduction of the Portfolio Managers Route for…
