KALYAN BANERJEE SAYS: “IT’S EITHER ABHISHEK OR ME”
NEW DELHI: For 15 years Mamata Banerjee and her Trinamool Congress were untouchable. Three consecutive Assembly election wins built her legacy and four straight Lok Sabha polls – in which the Trinamool was the single-largest party – cemented it. But on Thursday the Trinamool lurched deeper into an existential crisis after party veteran Kalyan Banerjee […]
INDIANS TRAINING AI ROBOTS FOR HOUSEHOLD JOBS
NEW DELHI: With a smartphone strapped to her head, Indian housewife Nagireddy Sriramyachandra films herself slicing mangoes to train AI-powered robots to take on household jobs in the future. Earning just over two dollars for an hour of video, her mundane recordings are invaluable for global tech companies teaching machines how to move like humans […]
CONG IN SC OVER MEENAKSHI NATARAJAN NOMINATION’S REJECTION
NEW DELHI: The issue of the rejection of Rajya Sabha nomination of Congress leader Meenakshi Natarajan in Madhya Pradesh has now reached the Supreme Court. The Congress has moved the top court to contest the dismissal of its candidate’s nomination. This legal action follows the Returning Officer’s rejection of Natarajan’s nomination papers due to objections […]
MONSOON HAS STALLED IN INDIA
NEW DELHI: India’s southwest monsoon made a strong start after arriving over Kerala on June 4, spreading rapidly across parts of southern India, the Arabian Sea, the Bay of Bengal and the Northeast within a matter of days. But after that initial burst, its progress across the country has become more gradual, with large parts […]
When the Referees Leave the Field: The Natarajan Case and the Crisis of Democratic Accountability
How an Electoral Contest Was Settled Without a Vote—and What It Reveals About India’s Constitutional Institutions The unceremonious end of the contest for Madhya Pradesh’s three Rajya Sabha seats is not merely a state-level political episode. It is a revealing snapshot of a deeper institutional malaise that increasingly shadows Indian democracy. What should have been […]
Pandit Ram Prasad Bismil: The Eternal Flame of Revolution and Poetry
On this birth anniversary of Pandit Ram Prasad Bismil—born on 11 June 1897 in Shahjahanpur, Uttar Pradesh—the nation recalls a luminous figure whose life embodied the fierce confluence of poetic eloquence and revolutionary zeal. A true son of India, Bismil emerged as one of the most inspiring architects of the armed struggle against British colonial […]
