The indignation became shriller as news channels replayed Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s remarks last week on ‘Babur, Bangladesh and Sambhal'.
NESSDU earned police and political backing after the 2014 murder of Northeast student Nido Tania. Now it’s ditching politics to focus on student welfare—but losing out on funds and clout.
‘Sambhal doesn’t have a perfect history, but it has a long history.’ And this Jama Masjid is no ordinary masjid. It’s one of the oldest surviving Mughal mosques in the country.
Next week, Panaji will revisit London's Poems on the Underground tradition. In shuttle cabs moving between Serendipity Arts Festival venues, six poets will share verses through intimate performances.
Even though Tahrir al-Sham has promised to protect minorities, and to crush transnational jihadist groups in Syria, exactly what comes next is impossible to predict.
Income tax is such a steady and reliable revenue stream, and an increasingly vital one, that the government simply cannot afford to do anything that would curtail it.
Now that PM Modi is in his third term, perhaps the BJP is losing the will to fight in the southern states. It would rather consolidate its gains in the north.
Hand-fed and protected, artificially incubated great Indian bustards have been raised like pets at Jaisalmer's two conservation breeding centres. But their progeny hold the key to rewilding.
In MP’s Sidhi, the Mohan Yadav-led govt’s proposal to privatise district hospital has drawn flak from patients, doctors, patient rights groups & even some within the ruling BJP.
Since the bulk of citizens did not regard drinking as a crime, they had no respect for the prohibition laws and did not cooperate with the police, wrote MV Venkata Rao in 1962.
We now live in a world order that will keep shifting. India must use this window. This also means we remain disciplined enough not to be knee-jerked into reacting to what Pakistan sees as its moment in the sun.
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