“A massive consignment of methamphetamine tablets worth ₹88 crore was seized and four members of an international drug cartel were arrested in Imphal and Guwahati zones,” Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Sunday (March 16, 2025.) Mr. Shah also said the drug haul is a testament to the stellar performance of the bottom-to-top and … Read more
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
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
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
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
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, 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
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
Justice Joymalya Bagchi, a judge of the Calcutta High Court, will on Monday (March 17, 2025) be sworn in as a Supreme Court judge. | Photo Credit: PTI Justice Joymalya Bagchi, a judge of the Calcutta High Court, will on Monday (March 17, 2025) be sworn in as a Supreme Court judge. Chief Justice of … Read more
Scorpene Submarine. File. | Photo Credit: ANI Two mega defence deals with France — for 26 Rafale-M fighter jets and three more Scorpene-class conventional submarines — worth close to $11 billion are now awaiting final approval by the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) before their anticipated conclusion very soon. The Indian Navy will get to … Read more