Partition Nostalgia – Where To Draw The Line
Released this month, Imtiaz Ali’s Main Wapas Aaunga, a story of love, loss, and nostalgia, and of humans killing, or being killed, during India’s 1947 Partition, has won critical and popular acclaim. It is located in Sargodha, now in Pakistan. Journalist-writer Nona Walia, who traces her roots there but has not seen it, says of this […]
Amazing story of Justice Murlidhar reads like a fairy tale
New Delhi, 26 June—An obvious victim of the mechanisms of the country’s judicial system, Justice S Murlidhar’s scathing report accusing Israeli security forces of deliberately targeting and killing Palestinian children reads like a fairy tale raising hope against hope that such honest, courageous and upright judges exist. Six years ago in February 2020, as deadly […]
Turning History into a Political Lesson: Why NCERT’s Emergency Section Fails Class 9
The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) recently released a revised Class IX social science textbook, Understanding Society, India and Beyond: Part 1 (25 June 2026). One of its most contested additions is a section on the Emergency (1975–77) under a chapter titled “Democracy,” framed as part of “Challenges to democratic practices in […]
CHAMPAT RAI QUITS AMID RAM MANDIR DONATION ROW
NEW DELHI: Champat Rai, 80-year old general secretary of the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust, an independent body that manages the Ayodhya shrine, and trustee Anil Mishra have submitted their resignations, an official confirmed. Champat Rai hailing from Bijnor district in U.P. is a vice-president of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad and he was the […]
MANY DELHI DUST STORMS BECAUSE OF BROKEN ARAVALLI SHIELD
NEW DELHI: Delhi faced many dust storms this June because of the slow collapse of its natural defence: Aravallis, one of the planet’s oldest mountain systems, a 650km spine of hills that runs from Delhi through Haryana and Rajasthan into Gujarat. For ages, it has worked as a natural wall, blunting the hot, sand-laden winds […]
A People’s Movement and Democratic Resistance is the Way Forward
(An Essential Reading for Every Ex-Serviceman, Youth, Women , and Conscious Citizen of Uttarakhand). Are you concerned about the present condition of Uttarakhand?Can democracy be safeguarded solely through elections?Is silence not, in itself, a form of consent?If you believe that the social, economic, and political challenges confronting Uttarakhand cannot be resolved by remaining passive spectators, […]
Rahul Gandhi demands apology from Dharmendra Pradhan for calling protesting students ‘terrorists’
New Delhi, 25 June— Lashing out at the Modi government for drowning in “arrogance of power”, Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi has demanded Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan’s immediate apology over the statement that Cockroach Janata Party protesters are a “B-team of terrorists”. Evidence of arrogance of power reflects in Pradhan’s comment, the Congress leader said […]
Nation bewildered over ‘passport not proof of citizenship’, Modi government shrugs it off: ‘Not new rule’
New Delhi, 25 June—Even as a number of perplexed voices online outraged at the news about passports not being proof of citizenship, and linked it to the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, the Centre unabashedly maintained that a passport has never been proof of citizenship. Making a common cause with the millions of […]
YOUR ANDROID MOBILE CAN ALERT ON EARTHQUAKE
NEW DELHI: Millions of people in Venezuela received a warning on their Android phones moments before the ground began to shake. The alert arrived only seconds before a powerful earthquake struck the South American nation. Yet those few seconds were enough to reignite a global conversation around one question: Can technology help save lives when […]
AMAZON TO INVEST $48 BILLION IN INDIA OVER 4 YEARS: ITS CEO TELLS PM MODI
NEW DELHI: US e-commerce giant Amazon on Thursday announced to invest a total of $48 billion to expand and support its businesses in India from 2026-2030, as its CEO Andy Jassy met Prime Minister Narendra Modi here. Jassy reiterated Amazon’s long-term commitment to India and announced plans to invest an additional $13 billion to expand […]
