Trinamool Congress leader Derek O’Brien. | Photo Credit: Shiv Kumar Pushpakar Flagging the “underutilisation” of funds by the Union Home Ministry under several heads, Trinamool Congress leader of Rajya Sabha Derek O’ Brien in a letter to chairperson of Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs Radha Mohan Das Agarwal has sought more clarity on action … Read more
Border Security Force (BSF) jawans patrol along the India-Pakistan border at Attari, about 35km from Amritsar. Image for representational purposes only. | Photo Credit: PTI A Pakistani intruder was shot dead early Wednesday (February 26, 2025) morning by BSF troops along the international border at Pathankot in Punjab, officials said. Border Security Force (BSF) personnel … Read more
Prime Minister Narendra Modi pays tribute to V.D. Savarkar in New Delhi. File phto | Photo Credit: PTI Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid tribute to Hindutva ideologue Veer Savarkar on his death anniversary on Wednesday (February 26, 2025). His invaluable sacrifice, courage and struggle in the independence movement can never be forgotten by the grateful … Read more
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar. | Photo Credit: PTI There is a clear and urgent need for a new multilateral system that reflects contemporary global realities as past few years “exposed” the “stark inadequacies” of the existing structures, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said. In a virtual address at the 58th Session of the … Read more
A police patrol vehicle parked on the main road near Jubilee hills check post in Hyderabad in 2019. | Photo Credit: NAGARA GOPAL The story so far: The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court in Deepa versus S. Vijayalakshmi and Others ruled that the legal provision in the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), 2023, … Read more
The New Delhi elections bore witness to an intense battle of narratives, with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) promising a double-engine sarkaar to voters while battering the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) for its failures in governance, and its myriad corruption scandals. While the AAP attempted to reframe the discourse to welfare, and the Centre-State conflict, it … Read more
Ukraine and the U.S. have reached an agreement on a framework for a broad economic deal that would include the exploitation of rare earth minerals. Representational image | Photo Credit: Getty Images Ukraine and the U.S. have reached an agreement on a framework for a broad economic deal that would include the exploitation of rare … Read more
Image for representation. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement The Enforcement Directorate has arrested The Hindu’s Ahmedabad correspondent Mahesh Langa under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), the agency said on Tuesday. “Mahesh Prabhudan Langa was produced before the Special Judge (PMLA), Mirzapura Court, Ahmedabad, and the Special Judge (PMLA) has granted four days’ ED … Read more
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah | Photo Credit: IMRAN NISSAR Jammu & Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Tuesday (February 25, 2025) said the description of Article 370 as a “temporary or transitional [provision] was because J&K’s status had not been fully formalised” at the time of its accession to India in 1947. … Read more
ED arrests journalist in money laundering case