4 min readJaipurFeb 26, 2026 04:27 PM IST First published on: Feb 26, 2026 at 04:27 PM IST Last June, a frail man in his early 90s approached a demonstration in Rajasthan’s Ganganagar district, where the farmers were protesting for irrigation water. The man could barely speak or move freely, so he attended the protest…
In a recent letter to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs chairperson, Radha Mohan Das Agarwal, the Trinamool Congress’s Rajya Sabha MP Derek O’Brien flagged “persistent underutilisation” of funds allocated to the Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER), citing schemes failing to reach the targeted number of beneficiaries in the region besides…
With the Assembly election round the corner, food politics has taken centre stage in West Bengal, allowing the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) to once more corner the BJP over what is perceived to be its biggest weakness in the state: the perception of being a Hindi Heartland party culturally out of sync with Bengalis. The…
“Kambal nahin bhi milta toh koi dikkat kon thi humein. Bas baat ye thi beizzati ki (It’s not like I was suffering without a blanket. This is about how I was insulted),” says Shakuran Bano. In her mid-60s, Shakuran isn’t the only one outraged. So are her Hindu neighbours, at the rebuff by former Tonk-Sawai…
4 min readChurachandpurFeb 26, 2026 07:20 AM IST After a three-day journey from Delhi to the family home in Manipur’s Churachandpur, and a day of well-wishers gathering to pay their respects, the body of deceased Manipur MLA Vungzagin Valte has been shifted to the morgue of the Churachandpur Medical College. His family is now awaiting…
Raising concerns that eligible voters could be deleted from the final electoral roll during the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in West Bengal, TMC MP Dola Sen has told the Supreme Court that Election Commission-appointed micro-observers were allegedly overriding decisions taken by Electoral Registration Officers (EROs), the statutory authority for inclusion and deletion of electors….
With the ruling Mahayuti alliance comfortably placed to sweep six of the seven Rajya Sabha seats from Maharashtra that go to polls on March 16, the remaining berth has set off negotiations and hard bargaining within the Opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) bloc that can bag it if it manages to cobble up the votes….
The US Supreme Court’s order halting President Donald Trump’s massive trade tariffs has not only brought a sense of vindication amongst his opponents but also evoked scathing editorials in dailies across the world. Urdu dailies in India also weighed in on the issue, and focussed on its implications for Trump and the world at large….
At a spiritual gathering in Hosur last Saturday, Justice G R Swaminathan of the Madras High Court declared that “in Tamil Nadu, there are rationalists, who call us unworthy (ayogya), fools (muttaal) and barbarians (kaattumurandi) for treating Gurus as Gods”, and then turned the phrase back on them: “Those who are saying so are the…
In yet another attempt to connect Dalits with his party’s Yadav and Muslim vote base, Akhilesh Yadav has hit upon the idea of taking the fight straight to the Bahujan Samaj Party’s home ground — with plans to celebrate BSP founder Kanshi Ram’s birth anniversary on a large scale. For this, the Samajwadi Party president has directed his…