“Some boundaries should never be crossed.”A year on, the Army’s words no longer stand alone. They echo as memory and warning — marking the day that altered how Pahalgam is seen, felt and remembered. It was a moment when the valley’s calm fractured without warning.Birdsong gave way to gunfire. Routine turned to panic. Twenty-six lives…
In Mirpur village in WB’s East Midnapore, SIR has not been unpleasant, with only two of 824 voters struck off (a Hindu & a Muslim) a marked deviation from elsewhere in WB. Residents with surnames like Nunes, Rozario and D’Cruz trace their roots to Portuguese mercenaries who settled here after 1742. Today, Christians, Hindus and…
Jawahar Nagar landfill in Hyderabad and Kanjurmarg landfill in Mumbai — figure in world’s top 25 super-polluting methane emission waste disposal sites, shows a new study by University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).The study ranks 25 waste facilities in 18 countries responsible for the highest methane emission rates, ranging from 3.6 to 7.6 tonnes of…
GUWAHATI: Gauhati HC on Tuesday directed the state govt and Himanta Biswa Sarma to respond within four weeks to PILs seeking action against the CM for alleged hate speeches against minority communities in the state.“It has been submitted on behalf of the state that the response affidavit shall be filed by the next date,” the…
NEW DELHI: At a time when thousands of temples are managed through state-supervised Devaswom Boards, the Centre on Tuesday told the Supreme Court that it did not favour govt control over temples and clarified that it had already placed its interpretation of constitutional provisions that enable states to manage secular activities of religious institutions.During the…
NEW DELHI: Justice B V Nagarathna, part of the CJI Surya Kant-led nine-judge Supreme Court bench hearing the core issue of ‘fundamental rights vs faith and belief’, on Tuesday observed that a person who doesn’t believe in a religion and its religious practices had no right to file petitions challenging their validity.As senior advocate V…
NEW DELHI: The two Kashmiri locals – in jail in the Pahalgam attack case for allegedly harbouring the three Pakistani terrorists a night before the incident – could have easily prevented the mayhem of April 22, 2025, and saved 26 civilians from being brutally gunned down in front of their families.Around 12.30 pm on the…
Addressing German parliamentarians in Berlin, Rajnath Singh on Tuesday beckoned the industry there, saying “Aatmanirbhar Bharat is not merely a procurement programme, it is an invitation to co-create, co-develop, and co-innovate”.Upon his arrival in Germany, Rajnath was welcomed at the Berlin airport with military honours. He was flown in a special German Air Force aircraft,…
ECI flags off Phase-II of International Election Visitors’ Programme NEW DELHI: Delegates from 17 countries, including representatives from their foreign missions in Delhi, will witness polling in West Bengal and Tamil Nadu on Thursday as part of the Election Commission’s International Election Visitors’ Programme (IEVP) 2026.This is the second leg of the programme; the first…
NEW DELHI: A petition in the Supreme Court challenging the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Act, 2026 — likely to come before a CJI-led bench on April 27 — highlights the “complete legislative erasure of trans men and trans masculine identities and other gender-diverse identities from the definition of transgender person”.Steered by transgender rights…
