Why Lutyens’ bust is being replaced with Rajaji’s: Decolonisation and its layered messaging | Political Pulse News

With Prime Minister Narendra Modi announcing that a statue of British architect Edwin Landseer Lutyens would be replaced by one of C Rajagopalachari — the first Indian occupant of Rashtrapati Bhavan as the first Indian governor general from June 1948 to January 1950 — in a bid to move towards freedom from a “mentality of…

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Unpublished memoir, stalled Parliament: General M M Naravane, the soldier at the centre of a political face-off | Political Pulse News

4 min readNew DelhiFeb 6, 2026 10:42 AM IST First published on: Feb 5, 2026 at 03:19 PM IST With Parliament continuing to remain in a gridlock — the Lok Sabha on Thursday adopted the Motion of Thanks to the President’s Address without the Prime Minister’s reply — the focus throughout this week has been…

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‘It is the best time to crush’: Oman captain fires up team against struggling Australia | Cricket News

Oman captain Jatinder Singh exuded confidence ahead of his side’s final group-stage clash against Australia in the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2026 at the Pallekele International Cricket Stadium on Friday. Speaking to ICC, Singh said, “It is the best time to crush” the struggling Australian side. The 2021 T20 World Cup champions, Australia, had…

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Travel Quote of the Day by Saadi Shirazi: “A traveller without observation is a bird without wings…”

Few travel quotes capture the exact spirit of travellers as powerfully as this line by Saadi Shirazi, a famous Iranian poet, philosopher, and traveller from the 13th-century. Most scholars believe him to have been born in 1209 or 1210. Shirazi is famous as one of the greatest poets of classical Persian literature often known as…

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Crude oil prices in focus: OPEC+ increases output by 206,000 bpd amid Middle East tensions

OPEC+ on Sunday announced a higher-than-expected increase in oil production quotas, days after US and Israeli strikes on Tehran triggered Iranian retaliation across the Middle East, according to AFP.The oil producers’ group, which includes Saudi Arabia, Russia and several Gulf states affected by the escalation, said it had “agreed on a production adjustment of 206…

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