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Ludhiana: HC directs pension revision for PAU pre-2016 retirees

Ludhiana, Dec. 26 -- The Punjab and Haryana High Court has asked the Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) to consider refixing the pensions of pre 2016 retirees in line with the court's December 2024 ... Read More


Karnataka: Sleeper bus accident survivors recall a night of fire and fear on the highway

BENGALURU, Dec. 26 -- The night began like any other long distance journey on a Karnataka highway. Most passengers were asleep and engines hummed steadily. Then, in a matter of seconds, a speeding tru... Read More


Vimal Negi death case: Seeking explanation is not abetment: HC

Shimla, Dec. 26 -- The Himachal Pradesh high court (HC) has ruled that seeking an explanation in an official capacity does not constitute "abetment to suicide" under the law. The observation was made ... Read More


Drug-addicted son kills constable father for job, later arrested with friend

ARA, Dec. 26 -- The mystery surrounding the murder of Jharkhand Police constable (havildar) Pashupati Nath Tiwari has been unravelled, officials said. Police said the murder was committed at Bhagwatp... Read More


After decades of delays, Navi Mumbai airport finally takes off on Christmas; 30 flights operate

India, Dec. 26 -- At 8 am on Christmas Day, an IndiGo flight from Bengaluru touched down at the newly opened Navi Mumbai International Airport to a water cannon salute, formally launching passenger op... Read More


Manjula Narayan picks her favourite reads of 2025

India, Dec. 26 -- From insightful explorations of the peculiarities of the Indian Internet in Anurag Minus Verma's The Great Indian Brainrot to Rudraneil Sengupta's The Beast Within, a police procedur... Read More


Sunetra Choudhury picks her favourite reads of 2025

India, Dec. 26 -- If there's one genre of literature that's lagging in India, it's that of a good biography, especially political ones. There have been fascinating characters in our public spaces but ... Read More


Roshan Kishore picks his favourite read of 2025

India, Dec. 26 -- Historical discourse in the Indian public sphere these days is mostly a choice between rigorous historiography but weak politics and political hubris but pedestrian historiography. T... Read More


Maharashtra: End of the road for the MVA?

India, Dec. 26 -- The future of the Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi (MVA), formed to keep the BJP out of power in the state, appears uncertain. Two of its three primary constituents - the Uddhav Thackeray-le... Read More


Vishal Shanker Mathur picks his favourite read of 2025

India, Dec. 26 -- In 2021, a Google engineer named Blaise Aguera y Arcas, in one of his early exchanges with LaMDA, a conversational artificial intelligence model, asked a pointed question - "Are you ... Read More