The Hindu Morning Digest, February 16, 2025

Passengers crowd to board a train for Maha Kumbh from the New Delhi railway station on Saturday. New Delhi railway station stampede: 15 dead, 11 injured  Fifteen people, including three children, lost their lives in a stampede at the New Delhi railway station on Saturday night (February 15, 2025).  Eleven others were injured, according to … Read more

Govt to set up deregulation commission to further reduce State’s role in governance: PM Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday (February 16, 2025) said the government will constitute a deregulation commission to further reduce the role of the state in all spheres of governance. Speaking at an event, PM Modi said the government has ended hundreds of compliances and now through Jan Vishwas 2.0, more archaic compliances are being … Read more

Why is a new bill on foreigners coming? | Explained

The story so far: The Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) is all set to introduce the Immigration and Foreigners Bill, 2025 in the second half of the Budget session that begins on March 10. The bill repeals all the four existing legislations that deal with immigration and movement of foreigners. Why are fresh terms … Read more

Kashi Tamil Sangamam embodies the heritage of ‘Ek Bharat, Shrestha Bharat’: Yogi Adityanath

File photo of Uttar Pradesh Yogi Adityanath. | Photo Credit: Sandeep Saxena Inaugurating the third edition of the Kashi Tamil Sangamam in Varanasi on Saturday (February 15, 2025), Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said the unique event signifies India’s cultural foundations, noting that Kashi and Tamil Nadu share an emotional and creative bond since … Read more

Members have freedom of speech but the party’s view is paramount, says Congress, without naming anyone

Congress MP Jairam Ramesh. The Congress on Saturday said its members had absolute freedom of speech to express their views but the party’s view was paramount. “The Indian National Congress is our country’s ONLY political party where there is absolute freedom of speech as well as freedom after speech,” Congress’s communications chief Jairam Ramesh said … Read more

After Modi-Trump talks on Delhi-Dhaka tensions, Jaishankar to meet Bangladesh FM in Muscat 

In this handout image provided on Friday, Feb. 14, 2025, Prime Minister Narendra Modi with U.S. President Donald Trump during a meeting at the White House, in Washington, DC. | Photo Credit: PTI Amidst troubled ties with Bangladesh, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar will meet Bangladesh Foreign Affairs Adviser Touhid Hossain on the sidelines of … Read more

YouTuber Ranveer Allahbadia apologises again, says he’s scared over death threats

Popular YouTuber Ranveer Allahbadia apologised for his remark on parents again on Saturday (February 15, 2025) but said he feels scared as he and his family are receiving death threats. Mr. Allahbadia, one of the most influential podcasters with over 16 million followers across social media platforms, landed in a major controversy over his comment … Read more

India, U.S. identify underwater domain awareness technologies for co-production in India

The alliance is aimed at scaling up industry partnerships and production in the Indo-Pacific region | Photo Credit: Reuters India and the United States are scaling up their cooperation in underwater domain awareness (UDA), a key focus for both countries, with a new initiative, the Autonomous Systems Industry Alliance (ASIA), announced during Prime Minister Narendra … Read more