A 20-year battle for Rs 20 — lawyer who sued Railways & won says it wasn’t just about money
In 1999, Tungnath Chaturvedi was overcharged Rs 20 for 2 train tickets in Mathura. A consumer court on 5 August directed railways to refund amount with interest & pay Rs 15,000 fine, reports Gautamee Hazarika.
Just how tough is JEE Advanced? Data shows 90% IIT aspirants got half the questions wrong in 2021
JEE Advanced is a ‘test of elimination’ for the IITs, touted as one of the hardest undergraduate entrance exams in the world. New data highlights how tough the questions are, reports Kritika Sharma.
Modi has no vision for Bihar’ – Why Chirag Paswan is now coming out against BJP
Chirag claims he will align with anyone who gives importance to Bihar. BJP leaders admit uniting LJP’s two warring factions will help the NDA, reports Shanker Arnimesh.
Why Taliban wants India in Kabul and New Delhi is upscaling mission
The Taliban and India are joined at the hip by a single date – 15 August. The similarity ends there, writes Jyoti Malhotra.
Indians are jumping through hoops to get into China—charter planes amid sky-high prices
Indian businessmen will reach the world’s ‘small commodities capital’. China is allowing foreigners to return for the first time since the pandemic started, writes Aadil Brar.
Jokes, memes, protests – Mamata, TMC silence after leaders’ arrests shows Bengal is changing
A few years ago, Mamata did not hesitate to arrest a JU professor for merely mailing a cartoon. Now, after Partha Chatterjee and Anubrata Mondal arrests, TMC is unusually still, writes Rajat Roy.
Remember a convicted ‘non-guilty’ IAS officer, HC Gupta, when fretting over stalled economic reforms
The 2010-13 season of scandal-mongering still casts a shadow on Indian politics, and the victims are those at the lowest end of the decision-making chain, writes Shekhar Gupta in this week’s ‘National Interest’.