KASHMIRI PANDITS ON EDGE ON FRESH ONLINE THREATS
NEW DELHI: Fresh anxiety has gripped Kashmiri Pandit employees and residents after a new online hit list, attributed to the United Liberation Council, believed to be a proxy of the banned Lashkar-e-Taiba, surfaced with a unprecedented level of detail. Unlike earlier threats, the latest letter contains personal information, including names, phone numbers and precise residential […]
AJIT DOVAL IN BEIJING FOR BORDER TALKS
NEW DELHI: National Security Advisor Ajit Doval arrived in Beijing on August 24 for a two-day visit to take part in the Special Representatives talks on the India-China boundary question with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi. The talks are scheduled at a time when questions remain over Chinese President Xi Jinping’s much-anticipated visit to India […]
BANKS CLOSED FROM AUG 25 TO 30
NEW DELHI: Banks will be closed in several cities between August 25 and Auguts 30 owing to regional festivities and weekend holidays. However, banking activities on mobile and internet will remain uninterrupted, though several bank branches will remain closed on account of bank holidays. Here is the list of bank holidays in different states across […]
CJP calls for peaceful protest march from India Gate to Police Headquarter on 5 September
New Delhi, 24 August—Rallying against the unkept promises of the Modi government, the Cockroach Janta Party has called for a peaceful protest march from India Gate to the Delhi Police headquarters on the Teachers Day on September 5. In a return of the Season 2 of the Jantar Mantar protests in June-July, CJP spokesperson Saurav […]
Quoting Niti Ayog report, Kharge corners Modi government on 8.9 crores youth for being unemployed and out of education
New Delhi, 24 August—Beating the government proverbially with its own stick, the Congress on Monday used a Niti Ayog report to accuse the central. government of “completely ravaging” young India’s entire pathway from education to employment, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge claimed that the Modi government has delivered an education system that costs more, examinations young […]
Cancellation of his US visit is an ‘Insult of Telangana’, says CM Revanth Reddy
New Delhi, 24 August—In his first reaction to the cancellation of the US leg of his foreign visit by the Centre, Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy today held the Modi government’s denial of political clearance for his planned US visit responsible describing the decision an “insult to Telangana”. Reddy had cancelled the US leg of his […]
An Open Letter to Ram Madhav: History Cannot Be Rewritten One Stanza at a Time
Dear Mr Ram Madhav, Your recent Indian Express column, “On Vande Mataram, Congress hasn’t learnt from its past”, makes a provocative charge: that the Congress decision in 1937 to restrict the public singing of Vande Mataram to its first two stanzas was a grave historical mistake, and that Congress’s alleged failure to stand firm against […]
Editors Guild Condemns BJP Video Labelling Journalists as ‘Dimagi Naxal’
New Delhi, August 24, 2026: The Editors Guild of India (EGI) has strongly condemned a video circulated through the official social media handles of the Bharatiya Janata Party, alleging that it seeks to portray journalists questioning the government as “Dimagi Naxal” or “Intellectual Naxal”.The Guild took particular exception to the targeting of senior journalist and […]
“You Belong to Yourself”: Rahul Gandhi’s Clarion Call for Women’s Autonomy at Pune’s Chhatron Ki Goonj
In the humid evening air of Pune on August 22, 2026, thousands of young women filled the grounds of the AISSMS College for the fourth edition of Rahul Gandhi’s Chhatron Ki Goonj campaign. Unlike the earlier gatherings in Kota, Dehradun and Prayagraj, this one was deliberately exclusive to female students. What unfolded was not a […]
AFGHANISTAN TODAY: GANDHARI’S CURSE?
Maharshi Vyasa’s Mahabharata does not record it. But popular folklore and the epic’s modern-day television adaptations state that Queen Gandhari cursed her brother Shakuni that his kingdom of Gandhara (modern-day Afghanistan) would never find peace or prosperity. True or not, Gandhari, wife of the blind king Dhritarashtra, who blindfolded herself, was a woman of great […]
