With Prime Minister Narendra Modi set to address a major election rally in Maduranthagam near Chennai on Friday, the NDA in Tamil Nadu is engaged in an intense round of negotiations that underline both the ambition and fragility of its plans for the upcoming state Assembly elections. Since Tuesday night senior BJP leaders led by…
3 min readMumbaiJan 23, 2026 10:59 PM IST First published on: Jan 22, 2026 at 08:30 AM IST The poor performance of the two NCP factions in the recent municipal corporation elections in Maharashtra has fuelled speculations about the merger of the two parties – the Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar-led NCP and the Sharad…
The Siddaramaiah-led Congress government in Karnataka has proposed a new law that will tackle “honour killings” as a specific category of crime, besides protecting the freedom of choice in marriage. The government is bringing this Bill in the wake of some recent caste-linked honour killings in the state. In one such incident reported from a…
On Monday, former Chief Minister and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti demanded divisional status for the Pir Panjal and Chenab Valley regions of Jammu. The demand for divisional status for the twin regions came after BJP leader Sham Lal Sharma demanded that Jammu be carved out as a separate state. Both the ruling…
A scientist in Norway gave himself brain damage after he tested a secret weapon on himself to disprove the existence of Havana Syndrome, it emerged.The unidentified govt researcher built a machine capable of emitting powerful pulses of microwave energy in an attempt to prove such devices were harmless to humans, The Telegraph reported.But after testing…
With the Assembly election drawing near in Kerala, Sree Narayana Dharma Paripalana (SNDP) Yogam and Nair Service Society (NSS) — two of the state’s prominent Hindu caste outfits — appear to have endorsed a “Hindu unity” plan, a move that brings them closer. After a meeting of SNDP Yogam general council on Wednesday, its general…
Astronomers have long wondered why planets orbiting two stars like the iconic Tatooine in Star Wars are so rare. You would expect them to be everywhere, really. Most stars form with planets, and a large fraction are born in pairs. Yet double-sun worlds are elusive. New research by University of Berkeley, suggests that the laws…
It was billed as the site that would usher in a new era of industrialisation and jobs in West Bengal, an attempt by the Left to pivot towards the market economy after decades of stagnant growth. However, the proposed Tata plant in Singur in Hooghly district ended up bringing down the Left citadel and propelling…
What will humans look like in a million years? The answer may surprise you Thinking about human appearance far into the future tends to drift into science fiction, but the question is rooted in real science. Human bodies have never been fixed. They have shifted with climate, food supply, disease, movement and technology. A million…
4 min readMumbaiJan 23, 2026 07:39 AM IST First published on: Jan 22, 2026 at 04:49 PM IST As the Mahayuti navigates the political terrain amid the local body elections in Maharashtra, which will conclude with the Zilla Parishad and Panchayat Samiti polls later this month, questions are being raised in the BJP about whether…