BJP’s Kalidas Kolambkar is confident in winning Maharashtra polls, aims to enter Guinness Book Record

BJP’s Kalidas Kolambkar is confident in winning Maharashtra polls, aims to enter Guinness Book Record

Kalidas Kolambkar, an eight-time Member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly (MLA), exuded confidence in the forthcoming Maharashtra assembly elections. File | Photo Credit: Vivek Bendre Kalidas Kolambkar, an eight-time Member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly (MLA), exuded confidence in the forthcoming Maharashtra assembly elections, stating that he aims to enter the Guinness Book of World … Read more

Transport officials book cases against private bus operators for ‘fleecing passengers’

Transport officials book cases against private bus operators for ‘fleecing passengers’

With Dasara drawing to a close, people waiting to board a bus at the Pandit Nehru Bus Station in Vijayawada on Sunday. | Photo Credit: G.N. RAO Officials of the Road Transport Authority (RTA) in Andhra Pradesh have cracked the whip on erring private bus operators who fleeced the passengers taking undue advantage of the … Read more

Morning Digest | Assam Police book Rahul Gandhi for ‘violence’ during Nyay Yatra; Maldives rules out research by Chinese vessel in its waters, and more

Morning Digest | Assam Police book Rahul Gandhi for ‘violence’ during Nyay Yatra; Maldives rules out research by Chinese vessel in its waters, and more

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi addresses the supporters during the ‘Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra’, in Guwahati, Assam on Tuesday. | Photo Credit: ANI Assam Police book Rahul Gandhi for ‘violence’ during Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra The Assam Police on Tuesday booked Rahul Gandhi for “wanton acts of violence” as the political confrontation between the Congress leader … Read more

Book on Tamil Nadu’s contributions to the freedom struggle released

Book on Tamil Nadu’s contributions to the freedom struggle released

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on Wednesday released the Tamil book, Viduthalai Porattathil Tamil Naatin Pangalippu, and its English translation, Tamil Nadu’s Contribution to the Freedom Struggle. The first copies of the books, brought out by the Tamilarasu publication run by the Department of Information and Public Relations, were received by former West Bengal … Read more

Abraham Verghese on his new book The Covenant of Water, a sweeping family epic set in Kerala

Abraham Verghese on his new book The Covenant of Water, a sweeping family epic set in Kerala

The Covenant of Water spans eight decades of a Kerala Christian family that suffers a strange affliction: at least one person dies by drowning in every generation. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/ iStock Abraham Verghese identifies himself primarily as a physician — medicine is his first love — and then as a writer. Born to … Read more

New book claims Ambedkar termed Savarkar’s view on a Hindu rashtra illogical

New book claims Ambedkar termed Savarkar’s view on a Hindu rashtra illogical

Hindutva ideologue V.D. Savarkar’s point of view on a Hindu rashtra (nation) was not logical, according to B. R. Ambedkar, a new book in Hindi titled Gandhi: Siyasat aur Sampradaiykta (‘ Gandhi: Politics and Communalism’) says. It has been written by journalist-turned-author Piyush Babele, who currently heads the Madhya Pradesh Congress’ media department. He cites … Read more

Assam to book men marrying girls below 14 years under POCSO Act

Assam to book men marrying girls below 14 years under POCSO Act

GUWAHATI The Assam Cabinet has decided to book men who marry minor girls under stringent laws prescribing imprisonment from two years to life, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Monday. Citing the National Family Health Survey-5 report, he said an average of 31.8% of girls in Assam get married at the “prohibited age” and … Read more

Book fest of State Institute of Languages under way

Book fest of State Institute of Languages under way

A book festival organised by the State Institute of Languages (SIL) at the Karyavattom campus in connection with the Kerala University campus festival – Kerala University Gala (KuGala) 2023 – got under way on Tuesday. The three-day festival is being jointly organised by the Kerala University Departments Union and the researchers’ union. Minister for Culture … Read more

Archana Pidathala on her latest book Why Cook

Archana Pidathala on her latest book Why Cook

I speak to Archana Pidathala about her new book Why Cook on the eve of her son’s birthday. This has her harking back to a special memory when testing out the many thoughtfully-curated recipes. “I spent an entire evening testing the recipe with him making 75 momos and chatting away! They were imperfectly sealed, but … Read more