Watch: Olive Ridley turtles are dying – What’s killing them? Tamil Nadu’s coastline welcomes thousands of Olive Ridley sea turtles returning to nest each year. But in 2025, a devastating crisis unfolded—over 1,400 turtles were found dead, a massive spike compared to previous years. This alarming trend has raised urgent concerns among marine conservationists, fishermen, … Read more
Police have arrested a man for allegedly raping of a 17-year-old girl and forcing her to undergo abortion on the basis of fake documents in Maharashtra’s Thane district, officials said on Sunday (March 2, 2025). The dead foetus, which was buried at a crematorium in Ulhasnagar, has been exhumed for further probe into the case, … Read more
The meeting was held between Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal and EU Commissioner for Trade and Economic Security Maros Sefcovic. File. | Photo Credit: @PiyushGoyal on X via PTI With India and the European Union (EU) setting the year-end deadline to conclude a free trade agreement, teams from both sides held discussions on Saturday … Read more
Shashi Tharoor | Photo Credit: Illustration: Sreejith R. Kumar Literature has often been Shashi Tharoor’s calling card, at times even more than his politics, but words have also been his Achilles heel in politics, right from the “cattle class” and “holy cows” comments in 2009. Misinterpreted or otherwise, the four-time Lok Sabha MP’s utterances and … Read more
B.LINE:Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) leader Chirag Paswan with a helicopter symbol during a press conference., in New Delhi on, 7.10.21 :Pic | Photo Credit: KAMAL NARANG Union Minister Chirag Paswan on Saturday (March 1, 2025) asserted that Janata Dal (United) president Nitish Kumar will “return as Chief Minister of Bihar” upon the victory of … Read more
External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar with Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, a regular speaker at the Raisina Dialogue. File. | Photo Credit: ANI The showdown between U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the White House on Friday and events that follow may not directly impact India but they could set the … Read more
The question of reverting to ballot papers does not fall under the ambit of the mandate of a joint committee of Parliament examining the two bills on simultaneous polls, the Union Law Ministry is learnt to have said. Going back to the ballot paper system was a “suggestion” made by some of the members of … Read more
Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrives at Jamnagar Air Force Station, Gujarat, March 1, 2025 | Photo Credit: X/BJP4Gujarat Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Jamnagar in Gujarat on Saturday (March 1, 2025) evening to take part in several events over the next two days, including chairing a meeting of the National Board for Wildlife (NBWL) … Read more
In this image posted by @VPIndia via X on March 1, 2025, Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar addresses at a colloquium on ‘International Arbitration: Indian Perspective’, organised by India International Arbitration Centre, in New Delhi. | Photo Credit: @VPIndia via PTI Photo Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Saturday said the provision of special leave petition was … Read more
Representative image | Photo Credit: Reuters Global demographic trends make both movement of people across national borders and political blowback against it inevitable but India can have a calibrated approach that turns this into an opportunity, according to M.R. Rangaswami, founder of Indiaspora, a global platform of people of Indian origin. Mr. Rangaswami was speaking … Read more