Three Italian passengers somehow left the country without ever going through immigration. They flew in from Amritsar on a regular Air India domestic flight and less than an hour later they were on a Lufthansa plane heading to Munich. No immigration stamp, no formalities, nothing. Just gone. It happened in the early hours of 4 […]
Xi landed in Delhi on Saturday afternoon after flying out from China that same morning. He went straight into the summit meetings that started around 2 pm. Later he had a proper bilateral talk with Modi on the side. By the evening, when Modi put up the big formal dinner at Bharat Mandapam for all
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New Delhi, September 13 BRICS Summit at Bharat Mandapam is underway, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi just spoke quite plainly this morning. He told the leaders that under India’s chairmanship this year the focus stayed on four simple things: resilience, innovation, cooperation and sustainability. And he said they managed to turn the common ideas into
The former Uttarakhand chief minister and senior Congress leader put out a post saying he’s quitting two of his party positions. It came right after the Enforcement Directorate recovered a pile of cash, gold and fancy watches from the house of his longtime aide, Chandan Singh Jeena. Rawat made it plain he doesn’t want anything
“Nepal has released water”, “Kosi is angry again”, “heavy rain in the hills”. This time the story doesn’t fit. Bihar got less rain than normal. From June till early September the state recorded about 601 mm, nearly 27 percent short. Still, more than two thousand villages in fourteen districts went under water. The Water Resources
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The red flags in the forests of Bastar or Dantewada, the ambushes, the landmine blasts, the young men and women who disappeared into the hills carrying rifles. It started with a real place and a real fight over land. May 1967. A small village called Naxalbari in the foothills of the Himalayas in West Bengal.
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Gulzar was a simple daily-wage man, around 47. His son got hooked on chitta – you know that deadly drug that’s everywhere in Punjab these days. The addiction was so bad they even sold their house. On 6th September, Finance Minister Harpal Singh Cheema came to their village for some public meeting. Gulzar stood up
Durga Puja this year is going to feel different. West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari sat down with hundreds of puja organisers at Milan Mela grounds on Monday and laid out a clear set of rules. Some will cheer, some will grumble, but the message was straightforward: the festival stays big, the excesses get cut
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The building with cracked walls, damp patches that never dry, and pillars that feel like they’re holding on out of habit more than strength. That’s exactly what this building in Satya Niketan was. Fifty years old, give or take a few. Built when the area was still a resettlement colony for ordinary families, not the
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Just hours after ISRO’s successful GSLV-F17 launch carrying the EOS-05 earth observation satellite from Sriharikota on 4 September, a quiet but firm letter landed on the desk of Chairman V. Narayanan. Nine employee associations representing thousands of staff across the organisation’s major centres had put their concerns in writing. They wanted clear answers about where
