Quote of the day: After Plato (his mentor) died, Aristotle left Athens and, at the request of Philip II of Macedon, tutored his son Alexander the Great beginning in 343 BC. Quote of the day: Famous ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle was mentored by Plato and later went on to become the guide of
For many women, surviving breast cancer is only part of the story. What follows treatment is an equally important, often under-discussed phase rebuilding confidence, restoring a sense of normalcy, and learning to feel comfortable in one's body again. As breast cancer survival improves in India
For generations of Hindi cinema lovers, Vinod Khanna remains frozen in memory – tall, charismatic, effortlessly stylish, and always larger than life. But behind the screen persona was a man who quietly fought some of the toughest health battles of his life, long before the world knew
The Mumbai–Pune Expressway “Missing Link" project is a 13.3-kilometre bypass that has been designed to ease congestion and improve safety on the corridor that connects the two cities. It will help travellers in bypassing the steep, accident-prone 19-km Khandala Ghat
Three days after Hasina fled to Delhi, toppled by mass protests, an interim government was sworn in to lead Bangladesh. Headed by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mohammad Yunus, the ministry had the difficult task of stabilising a post-revolution Bangladesh as well as holding polls to bring in a new
The Congress on Tuesday questioned Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma after sharing a photograph purportedly showing him with a Bangladeshi Islamic scholar, asking “when and why the meeting took place and what its purpose was." Congress leader Pawan Khera, in a post on X
The Netflix film Ghooskhor Pandat, produced by Neeraj Pandey and starring Manoj Bajpayee, made headlines for all the wrong reasons following backlash over its title. Social media heavily slammed the makers for choosing a title that allegedly defames the Brahmin community. Following the title reveal
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has issued fresh summons to industrialist Anil Ambani and his wife, Tina Ambani, in a money laundering case linked to an alleged SBI bank fraud, sources said on Tuesday. The anti-money laundering probe agency said Tina Ambani has been summoned for February 17
Rush Hour: Opposition starts process to remove LS speaker, 2.4 lakh more Assam voters deleted & more
The Opposition submitted a motion indicating its intention to move a no-confidence motion against Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla. Signed by about 120 MPs, the notice cited Birla's “blatantly partisan manner” of conducting proceedings in the House and said that “leaders of Opposition parties have just not been allowed to speak” on several occasions.
Members of the Trinamool Congress were not among the signatories. Party leader Abhishek Banerjee said that the TMC wants to pursue a “constructive and calibrated” approach. Read on.
The Congress' Assam unit filed a police complaint against the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party for sharing a video depicting Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma symbolically firing at images of two Muslim men. Additionally, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and Communist Party of India leader Annie Raja moved the Supreme Court seeking action against Sarma for remarks targeting the Muslim community.
Responding to the plea, Chief Justice Surya Kant observed that ahead of elections, political battles find their way into the Supreme Court. Elections in the state are expected to be held in March or April.
In their complaint, Congress MLAs Sibamoni Bora and Diganta Barman stated that the content of the video “targeting a particular community is highly provocative and communal, which will definitely lead [to] social disharmony”. Read on.
Himanta Sarma's remarks about ‘Miyas' make a mockery of the Constitution
An additional 2.4 lakh names were deleted in the final voter list in Assam as compared to the draft list in the special revision of the electoral rolls in the state. In the draft voter list released on December 27, the names of more than 10 lakh voters had been deleted.
There were 2.52 crore voters in the state, according to the draft list. The final list showed that Assam had 2.49 crore voters, which was a 0.97% decrease compared to the draft roll. Read on.
BJP workers in Assam say their names used to seek mass voter deletion – without their knowledge
The Allahabad High Court stayed a Sambhal court order directing the filing of a first information report against Additional Superintendent of Police Anuj Chaudhary in connection with allegations that a man had been shot and injured during an unrest in the town in November 2024.
The bench noted that the complainant, who is the father of the man who was allegedly shot, had earlier been granted 14 days to file a counter to the appeal filed by the police. The judge added that the stay would remain in effect until then. Read on.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi cited a December 2023 social media post by former Indian Army chief MM Naravane announcing that his memoir was “available now”. This came after the publisher of the book, Penguin Random House India, said that the memoir had not yet been published.
In his first comments since the row erupted, Naravane quoted this statement on social media to say “this is the status of the book”. On the other hand, Gandhi told reporters outside Parliament that he believes the 2023 statement of the former Army chief over the publisher. Read on.
After the White House released a fact sheet about the India-United States trade deal, the Congress said that the “Modi government is working to Make America Great Again”. The fact sheet said that New Delhi will eliminate or reduce tariffs on “all US industrial goods” and a wide range of American food and agricultural products.
This included “dried distillers' grains, red sorghum, tree nuts, fresh and processed fruit, certain pulses, soybean oil, wine and spirits and additional products”. The Congress reacted to this by saying that in three days, “pulses have quietly entered the deal”. “It now looks like a rolling, expandable inventory, gradually widened to serve American export interests at the cost of Indian farmers,” said the party. Read on.
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