Union Minister Vaishnaw announces development of Hyperloop electronics tech at ICF Chennai

Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw inspects and assesses the work being done to develop a Hyperloop pod, in Chennai on March 15, 2024 | Photo Credit: ANI Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Saturday (March 15, 2025) announced that an electronics component technology for the ambitious Hyperloop project, developed by IIT-Madras, will be built at the Integral … Read more

Amit Shah to chair key meet with CMs of Northeast states

Union Home Minister Amit Shah will chair a meeting with the Chief Ministers of the Northeastern states. File | Photo Credit: Assam CM Office via PTI Union Home Minister Amit Shah will chair a meeting with the Chief Ministers of the Northeastern states on Sunday (March 16, 2025) to review the implementation of the Bharatiya … Read more

Whitewashing of Jama Masjid in Sambhal underway

Muslim devotees offer ‘Namaz’ at Shahi Jama Masjid during the holy month of Ramzan, in Sambhal district, Uttar Pradesh, on March 14, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI The whitewashing of the outer wall of the Shahi Jama Masjid in Uttar Pradesh’s Sambhal began on Sunday (March 16, 2025) morning, an advocate of the mosque side … Read more

 What’s on the agenda of the Raisina Dialogue?

The story so far: A month after this year’s explosive Munich Security Conference, where U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance put Europe on notice, Delhi is set to host the annual Raisina Dialogue from March 17-19, where U.S. President Donald Trump’s seismic foreign policy shifts are expected to be the big conversation points again. What are … Read more

Appeasement politics of Congress will weaken national unity: BJP

BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad. | Photo Credit: FILE PHOTO The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday (March 15, 2025) said the “appeasement politics” of Congress, the latest example of which was the “unconstitutional” decision of the Karnataka government to provide 4% reservation to Muslims in government contracts, would weaken national unity. Also Read | … Read more

BJP questions move by Telangana Govt. to include foreign economist in expert group to analyse caste survey data

French economist Thomas Piketty, author of the bestseller Capital in the 21st Century, during a symposium in 2015. File | Photo Credit: AFP The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday (March 16, 2025) sought a response from the Congress on the objective behind the Telangana government’s decision to involve a foreign expert for analysing the … Read more

Tuhin Kanta Pandey | Market watchdog

Tuhin Kanta Pandey, the former Union Finance Secretary, took charge as the Chairman of Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) on March 1, Saturday. The next day, the news broke that a Mumbai Special Court Judge directed the city’s Anti-Corruption Bureau to file FIRs on former SEBI chairperson Madhabi Puri Buch and three of … Read more

Facebook hired ‘ex-police captain’ in India for potential imprisonment, new book claims

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. | Photo Credit: Reuters Social media and communications giant Meta hired an “ex-police captain” in India to undergo arrest in case executives were targeted in government raids. The claim has been made by Sarah Wynn-Williams in a newly released memoir, Careless People, the publication of which the Facebook and WhatsApp parent … Read more