Karnataka’s Sugar Minister Shivanand Patil | Photo Credit: File photo Sugar Minister Shivanand Patil came under pressure from members of the Karnataka Assembly to act against sugar mills that are resisting setting up weigh bridge by the government in the light of complaints by farmers of mills cheating them on cane weight. During a discussion…
Union External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and others during a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in Jerusalem. | Photo Credit: PTI External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and discussed ways to enhance cooperation in technology, economy, connectivity and security, expressing confidence that the bilateral strategic partnership will “grow…
Subramania Bharati (1882-1921), whose birth anniversary was celebrated on December 11, belongs to the category of literary figures who achieved greater fame posthumously. Though he died quite young, Bharati had, by then, spent over 15 highly creative years. This coincided with a crucial phase in the history of the nationalist movement – from the period…
In October 2004, Tamil Nadu’s then Chief Minister Jayalalithaa was caught in a stormy political situation over a charge that she had recorded a telephone conversation with then Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil. It all began when in an unusual move, the Tamil Nadu government, represented by its Chief Secretary Lakshmi Pranesh, approached the Supreme…
Manipur police fired tear gas shells up on the protesters to in Imphal, Manipur on Monday, 24 July 2023. | Photo Credit: RITU RAJ KONWAR The Centre on Tuesday (December 16, 2025) gave another extension till May 20, 2026 to a Commission of Inquiry to submit its report on the probe into the 2023 Manipur…
Representative image. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto A gang rape of a minor girl in the city has triggered widespread controversy with principal Opposition Biju Janata Dal alleging that criminals are becoming fearless and the State government is steadily losing credibility. The gruesome sexual assault on the minor girl had taken place on December 10….
Had it stood, it would have completed 125 years in November this year. Moore Market, however, still remains, 40 years after a disastrous fire engulfed it, as an evergreen memory. It is just that I find with some digging, that there were clearly two views about it: the roseate nostalgic one, and the other, more…
Bombay High Court. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu The Bombay High Court on Tuesday (December 16, 2025) issued a notice to the Union Ministry of Defence on a petition filed by the mother of Agniveer Murali Naik, who was killed in cross-border shelling in Jammu & Kashmir during Operation Sindoor, challenging the denial of full death benefits granted to families of…
BLOs and BLAs assess the activities scrutinising the newly published SIR list at Ganabhaban, in Kolkata on Tuesday, December 16, 2025. | Photo Credit: ANI The Election Commission of India (ECI) has flagged over 1.36 crore voters through progeny mapping in West Bengal after the first phase of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process of the…
Activist Gautam Navlakha. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu The Bombay High Court on Tuesday (December 16, 2025) said it was inclined to permit human rights activist Gautam Navlakha to move to his Delhi home until proceedings in the Elgar Parishad–Maoist links case begin, noting that he has shown no tendency to abscond. A Division Bench of Justices…