The Delhi court’s decision to allow US national Matthew Aaron VanDyke, an accused in an NIA case involving alleged links with ethnic armed groups and training in drone warfare, to travel back to the United States raises questions that go far beyond the individual case. The issue is not whether an accused is entitled to…
Sometimes the biggest miracles in cinema happen when nobody is looking. When Hanuman Ansh arrived in theatres on August 7, hardly anybody was looking. Made for a reported Rs 2 crore, without a conventional Bollywood superstar and with none of the publicity machinery that accompanies big-ticket releases, it opened to a mere Rs 10 lakh….
Mumbai: Chants of “Ganpati Bappa Morya” and rhythmic beats of traditional dhol-tasha reverberated across Mumbai on Friday as thousands of devotees bid an emotional farewell to Lord Ganesh on the final, 12th day of the festival. As immersion processions wound their way to seashores and artificial ponds, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation said 16,154 Ganapati idols…
New Delhi: Former Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh said on Friday that it is his duty to tell his party (BJP) what he feels about Punjab and that does not mean he is quitting the party. He also said he is going through “difficult times” but did not elaborate further. Singh said he is 84…
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Friday rejected reports that President Droupadi Murmu returned the anti-goonda bill to the state government for reconsideration, and said the proposed legislation is currently “under consideration” of the home ministry. It was reported by a section of the media that the President had returned the bill, after…
United Nations: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Friday met his counterparts from Iran and Russia, with discussions ranging from bilateral issues to cooperation in the BRICS grouping and the Gulf conflict. Jaishankar met Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and discussed bilateral issues as well as cooperation in the BRICS grouping. “A good meeting with…
MS Sparsha When the world hears the name Mount Everest, it usually remembers Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, the first confirmed climbers to reach its summit in 1953. Some may also remember Sir George Everest, the British Surveyor General after whom the mountain was eventually named. But long before human beings stood on its summit,…
M Radha Madhavi धर्मक्षेत्रे कुरुक्षेत्रे समवेता युयुत्सवः । मामकाः पाण्डवाश्चैव किमकुर्वत सञ्जय ॥ The Bhagavad Gita begins not on the battlefield with a weapon being raised, but with a question. King Dhritarashtra asks Sanjaya what happened when his sons, the Kauravas, and the sons of Pandu, the Pandavas, assembled at Kurukshetra, having come together with…
M Jaishree The sky is infinite, the ocean is immeasurable, the earth is enduring, and the Divine is eternal. Life appears in countless forms, passing through birth, growth, decline, and renewal, yet existence itself continues beyond the limits of individual experience. In this vast order of creation, the Veda occupies a unique place in the…
The reopening of the controversial Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) case involving granite industrialist R. Veeramani has predictably triggered a political confrontation in Tamil Nadu. The ruling Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) government, headed by Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay, has ordered an intensified investigation after a Special POCSO Court rejected the earlier police…
