Amaravati: The Andhra Pradesh government has decided to clear pending bills of contactor amounting upto Rs 400 crore for the works they executed since 2014, said a government source. Contractors who executed works between 2014 and 2019, with project value below Rs 5 crore, will now receive payments, ending years of financial uncertainty and hardship,…
Guwahati: North East India Festival (NEIF) chief organiser Shyamkanu Mahanta and Zubeen Garg’s manager Siddhartha Sharma have been arrested in connection with the singer’s death in Singapore, police said on Wednesday. Mahanta was arrested on his arrival at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi from Singapore while Sharma was arrested from an apartment…
Tamil Nadu has been shaken by the tragic loss of 41 lives in a stampede at actor Vijay’s political rally in Karur. The visuals of desperate families, bodies lined up, and survivors in shock should have moved the entire political establishment to one united demand: justice for the victims. Instead, what we see is a…
Chennai: Nine labourers lost their lives on Tuesday when a steel arch came crashing down at the Ennore Thermal Power Station construction site in North Chennai, Tamil Nadu. The deceased workers, mostly from Assam and nearby regions, were part of an ongoing project at the location. Confirming the fatalities, J. Radhakrishnan, Secretary of the Tamil…
Hyderabad: An interstate drug peddling racket involved in transporting ganja from Malkangiri district of Odisha to Rajasthan via Hyderabad was busted here on Tuesday, police said. Contraband weighing 1,210 kg worth Rs 6.25 crore was seized, and one person was taken into custody in this connection, it said. Acting on credible information, police teams intercepted…
Guwahati: India skipper Harmanpreet Kaur acknowledged that the ICC Women’s World Cup opener against Sri Lanka wasn’t easy despite the hosts earning a facile 59-run win in the end under the DLS Method to log full points here on Tuesday. Sri Lankan veteran spinner Inoka Ranaweera’s four-wicket haul — three in the 26th over —…
Guwahati: The experience of Deepti Sharma was on full display as she struck a composed half-century alongside debutant Amanjot Kaur before taking a decisive three-wicket haul to help India overcome early hiccups and seal a 59-run win over Sri Lanka via DLS method in their Women’s World Cup opener in Guwahati on Tuesday. For Sri…
India’s latest strategic posture is not theatre — it is sober preparation for a peril no democracy wants to face: nuclear coercion wrapped in the chaos of conventional conflict. When the Chief of Defence Staff, Gen Anil Chouhan, warned that India must be ready for radiological and related threats after Operation Sindoor, it was not…
The real message of Dussehra is not the burning of effigies but the destruction of evils hidden within the mind and society Burning effigies of Ravana on Dussehra is not just a tradition, but a symbol of the victory of good over evil. But today, effigies have become mere entertainment, while ego, violence, lust, and…
The death of Mahatma Gandhi remains one of the most defining moments in modern Indian history. While the world reveres him as the apostle of peace, the reality of his assassination has long been entangled in layers of political interpretation, personal bias, and historical distortion. Seventy-five years later, a new wave of scholarship—most notably the…
