TRIBUTES TO A TIRELESS DEMOCRAT
Jagdeep S. Chhokar (1944–2025): The Relentless Crusader for Clean Politics From Railways to Reform: A Life of Many Journeys Jagdeep S. Chhokar, the co-founder of the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) and one of India’s most steadfast advocates for transparency in politics, passed away in Delhi on September 12, 2025, after a heart attack. He […]
US INTEREST IN IMPOSING OWN MAN IN NEPAL
NEW DELHI: Anger has been brewing for a long time against the lack of political morality in Nepal. We have seen 14 prime ministers over the last 17 years. All parties across the board are power hungry. In popular perception, they are extremely power hungry, corrupt, and nepotism is at its peak in Nepal. An […]
SC WARNS ON GOVERNOR’S CONSTITUTIONAL DUTY
PRESIDENTIAL REFERENCE: BEING CUSTODIAN OF CONSTITUTION, COURT CAN’T BE A MUTE SPECTATOR IF GUV FAILS NEW DELHI: Concluding hearings on the Presidential Reference seeking clarity on whether timelines can be read into Article 200 of the Constitution, the Supreme Court on Thursday said that though it strongly upholds the separation of powers, it could not […]
ELECTORAL REFORMS CRUSADER CHHOKAR DIES AT 80
NEW DELHI: Jagdeep S. Chhokar, co-founder of the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) and one of India’s most consistent champions of electoral transparency and accountability, passed away in Delhi on Friday, September 12, after a heart attack. He was 80. A former professor at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, Chhokar gave up the comforts […]
THE FATAL LOGIC OF GUNS
Charlie Kirk, the 31-year-old founder of Turning Point USA and one of the loudest champions of America’s gun obsession, was shot dead on September 10, 2025, while speaking at Utah Valley University. His “American Comeback Tour” ended with a bullet to the neck—a violent fate eerily foretold by his own words. Kirk once rationalized that […]
CRACKING THE HARAPPAN SCRIPT: AN ANCIENT PUZZLE
Cracking the Harappan Script: An Ancient Puzzle Retold at the IGNCA Delhi Conference A Global Reunion for an Ancient Riddle From September 11 to 13, 2025, the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA) in New Delhi will host a landmark international conference, drawing a remarkable cross-section of experts—archaeologists, computer scientists, linguists, engineers, and […]
CP RADHAKRISHNAN ELECTED INDIA’S NEW VICE-PRESIDENT
CP Radhakrishnan Elected India’s New Vice-President, NDA Secures Comfortable Win New Delhi, September 9: Maharashtra Governor and former Tamil Nadu BJP chief C.P. Radhakrishnan was on Tuesday elected as the 15th Vice-President of India, securing a decisive victory for the ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA). Radhakrishnan, the BJP-led coalition’s nominee, polled 452 votes, comfortably crossing […]
A LIFE IN FOCUS: FROM PATNA TO THE FRONTLINES OF JOURNALISM
Sankarshan Thakur💐💐 On September 8, 2025, India lost one of its most fearless and compassionate journalistic voices – Sankarshan Thakur, editor of The Telegraph, passed away at the age of 63   . Born in Patna in 1962, he was the son of veteran journalist Janardhan Thakur. A graduate of Hindu College, Delhi University, […]
BIASED AI CHATBOTS CAN SWAY PEOPLE’S POLITICAL VIEWS IN MINUTES
BIASED AI CHATBOTS CAN SWAY PEOPLE’S POLITICAL VIEWS IN MINUTES NEW DELHI: In a new study, biased AI chatbots swayed people’s political views with just a few messages. If you’ve interacted with an artificial intelligence chatbot, you’ve likely realized that all AI models are biased. They were trained on enormous corpuses of unruly data and […]
NUCLEAR WEAPONS AS A UNIQUE THREAT
Eighty Years After Hiroshima and Nagasaki: A World Still Grappling with Nuclear Shadows August 6 and 9, 2025, mark the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a somber milestone that compels reflection on the catastrophic human, environmental, and geopolitical consequences of nuclear weapons. As the world faces renewed nuclear risks in […]
