Social reformist Sonam Wangchuk does yoga during his five-day climate fast to “save Ladakh” in Phyang. | Photo Credit: PTI The story so far: Ladakhi innovator and engineer Sonam Wangchuk completed his five-day “climate fast”, in an effort to draw the attention of Indian leaders to the region’s fragile ecology and to secure its protection … Read more
In an incident that shows that Twitter can withdraw the blue verified badge against any verified account irrespective of the importance of the position of the account holder, the social media platform removed the blue badge from the personal Twitter handle of Vice President of India M. Venkaiah Naidu, @MVenkaiahNaidu, on Saturday. Although, the official … Read more
BJP president J P Nadda paid tributes to B R Ambedkar, a key figure in the making of the Constitution, on Constitution Day on Thursday and said the party-led government at the Centre is committed to building an equal society as he wanted. BJP leaders paid floral tributes to Ambedkar at the party’s headquarters here … Read more
Srinagar: National Conference leader Omar Abdullah on Thursday said many states especially in the northeast have special laws relating to land ownership whereby people from other parts of the country cannot buy land there, and questioned why Jammu and Kashmir could not have similar laws. “There are many states like Himachal Pardesh, Sikkim, Meghalaya, Nagaland … Read more
New Delhi: Congress-ruled Chhattisgarh government is set to challenge the Centre’s recently notified agriculture legislations in the Supreme Court on the grounds that they infringe on a state subject. Speaking to ET, Chhattisgarh agriculture minister Ravindra Choubey said: “The Chhattisgarh government will challenge the agriculture legislation in the Supreme Court. This would be done on … Read more
CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury has hit out at the BJP-led government at the Centre saying it is pursuing the policy of ‘Atma Samarpan Bharat‘ in the name of ‘Atma Nirbhar Bharat‘ by privatizing all government entities and PSUs. He also blamed the Centre for trying to muffle the opposition voices by using draconian laws … Read more
By Thomas Mathew Pranab Mukherjee – or Pranab-da, as many of us fondly called him — was a man who made the long journey as a small boy from Mirati, a village in West Bengal’s Birbhum district, to Rashtrapati Bhavan, without ever losing his sense of equanimity and humility. Even as a doughty fighter of … Read more