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Continued silence on name for NMIA fuels political row

NAVI MUMBAI, Oct. 13 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi's pointed silence on naming the Navi Mumbai International Airport (NMIA) after farmers' leader D B Patil, during its grand inauguration on Wednesda... Read More


Message from Haryana: Caste spares no one

India, Oct. 13 -- The tragic circumstances surrounding the suicide of senior Haryana IPS officer Y Puran Kumar have underlined that allegations of caste discrimination continue to permeate the highest... Read More


The gains of recognising the Taliban govt in Kabul

India, Oct. 13 -- For the first time since the Taliban assumed power in Kabul in August 2021, India has hosted the Taliban foreign minister Amir Khan Muttaqi in New Delhi. New Delhi's policy has so fa... Read More


In Bihar, the INDIA bloc fights a perception battle

India, Oct. 13 -- Will it be the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) that will assume office in Patna on November 14, when the Bihar assembly election results are announced? Or will it be the Mahagathb... Read More


The recipe of trumping odds: The RSS playbook

India, Oct. 13 -- I have been watching the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) - in its 101st year now - for more than 50 years. An obvious curiosity arises about the secret of its success. People may p... Read More


The Great Game in rare earths

India, Oct. 13 -- US President Donald Trump has threatened to impose 100% additional tariffs on China after the latter tightened export controls on rare earth minerals that are essential to the produc... Read More


Pro-pigeons party to contest BMC polls

MUMBAI, Oct. 13 -- In a prayer meet for the pigeons that he said had succumbed after the ban on kabutarkhanas in July, Jain muni Nilesh Chandra Vijay-who had previously threatened to take up arms for ... Read More


E-trucks localisation plans stumble on scalability block

New Delhi, Oct. 13 -- A chicken-or-egg-first problem has developed in the country's electric truck industry with the government pushing manufacturers to comply with an ambitious localization plan, whi... Read More


H-1B fee hike is Trump's second blow to gems and jewellery

mumbai, Oct. 13 -- Donald Trump's decision to hike H-1B visa fees may have put the spotlight on India's information technology (IT) services industry, but it has also delivered a twin blow to the gems... Read More


UP police chief orders crackdown on illegal firecracker making, sale and storage

LUCKNOW, Oct. 13 -- Director general of police (DGP), Rajeev Krishna, has issued strict directives to crack down on the sale, purchase, manufacture, and storage of crackers and its raw materials acros... Read More