RESIDENTS ESCAPE NOIDA BUILDING BLAZE USING MAKESHIFT BAMBOO BRIDGE
(Photo) Courtesy : Free Press Journal NEW DELHI: Desperate residents made a makeshift bridge with bamboo sticks and a wooden ladder to escape a massive fire that engulfed their four-storey building in Noida’s Sector 66. The fire, which started on the ground floor, soon spread upwards and dense smoke engulfed the upper floors of the […]
FRANCE SHUTS ITS 3 NUCLEAR REACTORS
NEW DELHI: France switched off three nuclear reactors and cut output at several more this week, after rivers meant to cool them grew too warm to use safely. India’s coastal and inland reactors face a different risk. Somewhere on the banks of the Garonne, the Rhone and the Meuse, three French nuclear reactors have gone […]
SACHIN PILOT TO BE CM FACE IN RAJASTHAN
NEW DELHI: Even though the next Rajasthan Assembly election is still more than two years away, Congress leader Sachin Pilot’s two-day tour of the Mewar-Vagad tribal belt has triggered fresh political discussion. Over two days, Pilot, who is one of the AICC general secretaries, travelled through Banswara, Dungarpur, Salumber and Udaipur, met Congress workers, attended […]
Fresh US sanctions on Russian crude oil send prices soaring troubling India
New Delhi, 15 July—In yet another jolt for the Modi government, Trump Administration’s reported moved to scale up US tariffs of up to 100 per cent on countries buying Russian crude oil is likely to hit the country economy hard with oil prices again going wild. With India and China being two of the biggest […]
SHARAD PAWAR’S MOVE IN LATE NIGHT MEETINGS WITH CM DEVENDRA FADNAVIS
NEW DELHI: Late-night meetings in Mumbai between senior leaders from both factions of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Tuesday reignited speculation over Sharad Pawar’s next move, with both camps simultaneously grappling with questions over their political future. NCP (SP) state president Jayant Patil first met Sharad Pawar at his […]
Supreme Court Sets Remission Boundaries in Dara Singh Graham Staines Murder Case
More than twenty-six years after the brutal murder of Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two young sons, Philip and Timothy, the Supreme Court has directed the Odisha government to complete the formalities for the premature release of the principal convict, Rabindra Kumar Pal alias Dara Singh, by Independence Day 2026. While the decision follows […]
THE SOUTHERN NIGHTINGALE FALLS SILENT: S. JANAKI, THE EMOTIONAL FULCRUM OF INDIAN CINEMA
Indian music lost one of its most luminous stars as the legendary playback singer Sistla Janaki—affectionately known to millions as “Janaki Amma” and celebrated as the “Nightingale of South India”—passed away on July 11, 2026, at a private hospital in Mysuru. She was 88. Her demise marks the twilight of a golden epoch in playback […]
Concern grows as Sonum Wangchuk’s condition deteriorates on 17th of his fast
New Delhi, 14 July—Concern over climate change activist and Ladakhi Sonum Wangchuk’s wellbeing grows as his indefinite fast demanding Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignation over exam paper leaks is growing entered the 17th day of the Ladakhi activist’s protest with concerned civil society appealing him to terminate the fast. In between, support for the […]
India Summons Iranian Envoy After Missile Strike Kills Indian Seafarer, Injures Ten
New Delhi, 14 July– India on Tuesday summoned Iran’s Deputy Chief of Mission in New Delhi and lodged a strong protest after attacks on two commercial vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz left an Indian seafarer dead and 10 others injured, strongly condemning the targeting of civilian shipping. Protest and condemnation came for the attacks on […]
CABINET SECY’S HANDBOOK FOR BABUS
NEW DELHI: “Saheb meeting mein hain” is perhaps the most familiar refrain in the corridors of India’s bureaucracy. Walk into a government office, call a secretariat or try reaching a senior official, and chances are the response will be the same—the officer is in a meeting. For generations, the government has measured activity not merely […]
