New Delhi, Aug 21 While serving as the Chief Minister of Gujarat over a decade ago, Prime Minister Narendra Modi emphasised that leveraging half of India’s population — likely referring to the power of women — through scientific methods could greatly accelerate the country’s development. This insightful quote from his time as the Chief Minister […]
Kolkata, Aug 20 The West Bengal government on Monday evening announced the formation of a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the allegations of financial irregularities at the state-run R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital since 2021, when it was under the supervision of ‘controversial’ principal Sandip Ghosh, who stepped down days after the rape […]
Moscow, Aug 15 Lauding India’s “widely-recognised track record of success”, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Moscow attaches great importance to the privileged strategic partnership between the two countries. In another statement, the Russian Foreign Ministry also hailed the longstanding partnership between the countries, saying that India now enjoys a “well-deserved authority” in […]
New Delhi, Aug 15 India Inc on Thursday hailed Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s call to state governments to attract investments from global companies towards achieving the ‘Viksit Bharat’ goal. In the Independence Day address, the Prime Minister said if policies need to be changed, states should adapt them according to global requirements. “If land is […]
New Delhi, Aug 15 Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday delivered his longest Independence Day speech at 98 minutes from the ramparts of the historic Red Fort. This was the second record that he set with his 11th consecutive address. The other one is surpassing his predecessor Manmohan Singh’s 10 Independence Day addresses to become […]
New Delhi: As we approach Independence Day, it is a good time to reflect on the distance we have come as a nation and the destination ahead. The India we want for ourselves and our next generation. There is a lot of talk about the rights of citizens. As we approach this Independence Day let […]
New Delhi, Aug 12 As Rahul Gandhi continues to raise suspicions about the stupendous growth of the Indian stock markets in the Modi 3.0 era, data has revealed that the Leader of Opposition (LoP) made a profit of Rs 46.49 lakh from his stock investments in the last five months. IANS did the math and […]
Kolkata Parameswaran Thankappan Nair, who passed away at Chendamangalam, a small town in Kerala’s Ernakulam district, will forever be remembered as the “barefoot historian” of Kolkata, the city where he arrived in 1955 from Alwaye in Kerala and left only in 2018 on the insistence of his extended family ‘back home’. Nair, who graduated from […]
New Delhi From the engrossing trial of Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev, and Rajguru to treats from Hindu Mythology to a walk through ‘Sirinagar’, and then a journey from trauma to liberation, here is recommendation before you retreat (or escape) to your book nook this month: Wendy Doniger, The Dharma of Unfaithful Wives and Faithful Jackals: Some […]
New Delhi, July Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday took the opposition to task for claiming that agriculture had been ignored in the Union Budget 2024-25, pointing out that the allocation for the sector was five times more than what the erstwhile UPA government had earmarked in the Budget for 2013-14. In her reply to […]