Autumn is calling and the leaves of Kashmir’s famed chinar tree are falling, as if to draw attention to the multiple layers of the region’s complex political landscape. The Jammu and Kashmir National Conference (NC)—the region’s oldest political formation since 1931, originally founded as the All Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Conference and later rechristened as […]
For 17 days, the attention of West Bengal’s civil society was fixed on the condition of the six junior doctors who started an indefinite hunger strike on October 5, as part of the ongoing protest against the gruesome rape and murder of an on-duty doctor inside the R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital in the […]
Hindi imposition row: Union Minister L Murugan has hit out at Tamil Nadu deputy Chief Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin for advising couples to name their children with “Tamil names” to avoid Hindi imposition in the south Indian state, ANI reported. Reacting to Stalin’s remark, Murugan on October 23 accused the ruling political party — Dravida Munnetra […]
New Delhi: As rural land records evolve, urban land management must also rise to meet the demand of rapid urbanization, said minister of state for Rural development Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani in New Delhi on Tuesday, adding that India has already digitized land records of 625,000 villages across the country. More than administrative tools, accurate land […]
Earlier this month, the New York Times reported that Donald Trump was considering Brooke Rollins — his former Domestic Policy Council director now serving as president of a MAGA think tank, the America First Policy Institute — to serve as his chief of staff should he return to the White House. Within 24 hours, stories […]
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To hear America and other long-established powers tell it, China has unique influence over that region’s worst agents of disorder, starting with Iran, and an unusual need for stability in the Middle East. China is the world’s largest importer of both oil and liquefied natural gas, buying vast quantities from Iran and Arab countries alike. […]
The survey asked its 10,314 respondents their views on a list of three statements related to free goods and services. Of them, 56% agreed they were unnecessary freebies, 78% agreed they were mainly aimed at getting votes, and 61% said they could hurt the country’s financial situation. The negative view was more common in north […]
Jharkhand Assembly Elections: Ahead of the upcoming state assembly polls, former BJP leaders Dr Lois Marandi, Kunal Sarangi, and Ganesh Mahali joined Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) on Monday and met CM Hemant Soren and his wife Kalpana Soren. Dr Loise Marandi was the former BJP Vice President from the state and joined Hemant Soren’s party […]
New Delhi: India’s first coal exchange will be launched soon, Union minister for coal and mines G. Kishan Reddy on said on Monday. “We are in the process. Regarding coal exchange, we are discussing. Already last week we have taken a meeting. In a little time we will come up with it,” he said on […]
