NEW DELHI: PM Modi’s visit to Manipur Saturday – his first since the 2023 outbreak of ethnic violence – was always expected to be a high-visbility affair with high stakes. It lived up to the billing, with Modi reaching out to Meiteis and Kukis by emphasising well being of both the communities – parties to…
NEW DELHI: Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav on Sunday accused the NDA government in Bihar of presiding over a collapse in public healthcare after inspecting Purnea’s Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH). He pointed to patients sharing beds, toilets unfit for use, and bedsheets not changed for weeks, calling the situation a sign…
Unexpected but true: Mumbai’s elite have a new passion, and it’s called mahjong! Living rooms and club lounges from Chembur to Churchgate echo with the clack-clack-clack of 144 tiles shuffling – a sound that has decisively dethroned the genteel clinking of silver tea services and the buzz of kitty parties. Forget idle gossip or the…
T’puram: In a first in India, Kerala cabinet Saturday cleared a draft bill to amend Wildlife Protection Act, 1972, authorising the chief wildlife warden to order the killing of any wild animal that attacks and injures a person in a residential area.The move comes amid a series of reports of man-animal conflicts in recent months….
When filmmaker Anuparna Roy was a child, she listened wide-eyed as her grandmother spoke dreamily of a river. Her maternal grandmother, married at nine to a man in his 30s in Purulia district of West Bengal, often told her stories about the river’s pure, beautiful water. “I always thought she must have seen this river,…
NEW DELHI: Holding that public interest isn’t synonymous with the cause of govt but with enforcing accountability, Supreme Court said courts shouldn’t overlook govt negligence or condone inordinate delay in filing cases, as this amounts to institutionalising inefficiency.A bench of Justices J B Pardiwala and R Mahadevan said courts shouldn’t become a “surrogate of state…
JAMMU: The Vaishno Devi Yatra, scheduled to begin on Sept 14, has been postponed again due to persistent rains.A Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine Board spokesperson posted on X: “Due to incessant rain at Bhawan and the track, commencement of Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Yatra scheduled from 14th Sept stands postponed till further order”. It…
Nepal’s President Ram Chandra Poudel dissolved the parliament following a recommendation by the interim government led by former Supreme Court chief justice Sushila Karki, and also announced that fresh elections will be held on March 5 next year.President’s decision to dissolve parliament received backlash from several parties. Major political parties denounced his decision, calling it…
NEW DELHI: Chinese Embassy officials of interfering directly in the local affairs of South Asian countries, particularly in Nepal, former Tibetan Prime Minister-in-exile Lobsang Sangay claimed, and also warned India to be vigilant about its dealings with Beijing. In an conversation at ANI podcast, Sangay voiced concern over China’s “expansionist” policies and its efforts to…
Shashi Tharoor (File photo) NEW DELHI: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Saturday called on India to urgently address the perception that the country is unsafe for women if it wants to strengthen its tourism sector. Tharoor warned that India’s global image was holding back growth in a sector he described as vital for jobs and…
