Patna: A major uproar erupted at a Congress event in Bihar's capital Patna Sunday, when party President Mallikarjun Kharge lost his cool and made an objectionable remark on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, prompting fierce counter from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Kharge's controversial comment came...
Ramnagar: In a veiled attack on the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari Sunday said programmes to inculcate nationalism among students should be held every year to keep them away from the influence of "vices like cockroaches". Adhikari said a three-day...
New Delhi: Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla met Russia's State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin Sunday and held discussions on expanding parliamentary cooperation through sustained institutional engagement between the two parliamentary chambers, regular exchanges of parliamentary delegations, and greater interaction among young and women parliamentarians. During...
New Delhi: The usage of terrorism as an "instrument of statecraft" is simply unacceptable, and it can never be justified or rationalised, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said Sunday and flagged that it continues because "not all states really display zero tolerance" to the menace....
New Delhi: The Indian Air Force’s calibrated strikes across the Western front during Operation Sindoor—spanning 1,200 km in breadth and 200 km in depth—demonstrated that no target is beyond its reach, Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal AP Singh said Sunday, in an apparent...
New Delhi: Citing former Supreme Court judge Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul's yet-to-be-released memoir, the Congress Sunday flagged "serious questions" regarding the independence of the judiciary under the Modi government and asserted that the institution tasked with upholding the Constitution must remain free from the pressures...
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Sunday urged citizens to buy products made by local artisans and strengthen the 'Vocal for Local' initiative as the country gears up to celebrate Diwali. In his monthly radio broadcast 'Mann Ki Baat', he also highlighted the success of...
New Delhi: Use of AI in everyday applications, understanding how machines learn from examples, detecting deepfakes and ethical boundaries protecting personal data -- classes IX to XII will now study a 20-hour introductory module on computational thinking (CT) and artificial intelligence (AI) released by NCERT....
Milan: Thousands of young people marched on Saturday through the streets of several Italian cities, including Milan, Rome and Turin, as authorities deployed large numbers of police and soldiers in a largely-successful bid to stave off a repeat of the violent clashes and looting that...
Imphal: Manipur Chief Minister Y Khemchand Singh said his government would form a committee with representatives from all 36 communities in the state to promote peace, harmony and inclusive development. The chief minister said the proposal follows a query from Prime Minister Narendra Modi on...
More than three years after ethnic violence erupted in Manipur, there is no let-up in the spiral of killings, displacement,...
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The BJP appears to be clueless as to how to handle the people’s fury and the Opposition’s mega rally at...
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By Aakar Patel My thesis is that the Indian state under Hindutva is incompletely communal. I have written about this...
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By Dilip Cherian The litany of extensions continues. The latest is Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh, whose tenure the Modi...
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