Accusing Sonia Gandhi of objecting to the recitation of the full version of Vande Mataram at the Congress party’s Independence Day ceremony, Home Minister Amit Shah seeks to make it a bigger political issue.
Rahul Gandhi's absence at India's biggest official celebration of its 80th Independence Day, where PM Narendra Modi speaks on his concept of Sapt Dhara — seven streams of reform — renews old battle lines in the nation's politics.
Chief Justice of India Surya Kant, whose proposed presence at NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad, for the convocation was reportedly opposed by its graduating students, rebuked Bar Council of India (BCI) for issuing an unprecedented restraint order that could harm the students’ career.
This attack on Punjab leader Sukhbir Singh Badal comes less than two years after he narrowly escaped an attempt on his life at the Golden Temple entrance in December 2024.
The draft rules that Reserve Bank of India has unveiled will, if adopted, come into force starting April next year and begin a new era of transparency.
Swatantra Bharadwaj, a 21-year-old Hindutva influencer, was heard saying in a podcast that he was not arrested despite his murderous attack on CJP protester Nishu Azad’s father. “I was not even jailed. The world should know this. I was out and
about through the night,” he said.
A buffer against fear, and relief from mental burden are among the perceptible and verifiable benefits the chanting of the mahamantra brings. Staunch believers say it works like the wind clears storm clouds, and sunrise dissolves darkness.
The two men were among hundreds of workers who vanished after the glacial collapse wreaked havoc in Nepal along its border with China on August 26. The disaster has so far claimed at least 1,280 lives, with more than 5,500 people still missing.