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
Participants in the 2025 filmmakers challenge. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Close to 60% finalists in the WAVES-2025 Young Filmmakers Challenge, organised by Whistling Woods International in partnership with the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, are female candidates. Speaking to The Hindu, Chaitanya Chinchlikar of Whistling Woods International said over 1,000 entries were received from … Read more
Indian Army personnel keep up vigil along the Indo-Myanmar international border. | Photo Credit: RITU RAJ KONWAR The 1643-km-long border with Myanmar will be entirely ringed with an “anti-cut, anti-climb” fence in the next ten years, according to government officials and a parliamentary panel report. The project to fence the Myanmar border was announced by … Read more
Top anthropologists have called for a paradigm shift in the way India defines a “tribe”, overwhelmingly supporting the idea that a community’s classification should be assessed on a “spectrum of tribalness” rather than the binary question of whether or not it is a tribe. This was the broad consensus reached at a recent Indian Anthropology … Read more
A file image of Jairam Ramesh. Photo credit: AICC via PTI The Congress on Saturday (March 15, 2025) said it has flagged a decade-long real income stagnation, a consumption boom entirely driven by the expansion of credit and deepening inequality as the three threats to the economy, and wondered what will it take for Prime … Read more
Ashwini Vaishnaw, Union Minister of Railways, Information and Broadcasting, Speaking at Inauguration of ZETWERK Electronics Manufacturing Unit at Sriperumbudur on Saturday. T.R.B. Rajaa, Minister of Industries, Government of Tamil Nadu, looks on. | Photo Credit: VELANKANNI RAJ B Hailing Tamil as a ‘sweet’ language, Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Saturday (March 15, 2025) said it … Read more
BJP claimed on Saturday (March 15, 2025) that Rahul Gandhi is spending more time in Vietnam than his constituency. File | Photo Credit: ANI The BJP claimed on Saturday (March 15, 2025) that Rahul Gandhi is spending more time in Vietnam than his constituency, and said the Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha needs to … Read more
The funds will be used to enable creators to enhance their skills, upgrade their production, and expand into global markets, according to Information and Broadcasting Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw. | Photo Credit: Sansad TV The Central government has announced that it will invest $1 billion to support the “creators’ economy” in the country. The funds will … Read more
File picture of Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel. | Photo Credit: ANI Senior Congress leader and former Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel on Saturday (March 15, 2025) said his son hadn’t received any notice from the Enforcement Directorate to appear before it in connection with an alleged liquor scam linked to a money laundering case in … Read more