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Tuesday, December 23, 2025
TopicFestival of Libraries

Topic: Festival of Libraries

Indian libraries are dying spaces. Govt will bring a festival to make reading cool again

On 5-6 August, librarians, authors, publishers, and district collectors will gather at Delhi’s Pragati Maidan with the goal of making libraries cool again among a generation hooked on reels and selfies.

On Camera

Charan Singh exposed failures of Soviet collective farming. And saved Indian agriculture

In his book, ‘Joint Farming X-rayed’, Chaudhary Charan Singh marshalled facts from the FAO, USDA, and independent newspapers to show that collective farming had failed everywhere.

To meet fund crunch, Karnataka to auction plots in Bengaluru, raise Rs 4,000 crore

Siddaramaiah govt’s five schemes strain finances as GST changes hit revenues; debt to jump nearly Rs 80,000 crore. State also plans to auction liquor licences & extend bar timings.

Turkiye delivers second MILGEM-class corvette Khaibar to Pakistan Navy, two others in making

Contract for construction of four MILGEM-class ships was signed in 2018. PNS Bedir is to be delivered by June 2026, while PNS Tariq is due for delivery in first quarter of 2027.

Dhurandhar shows hard cinema is soft power and Pakistan is unapologetically the target

If Pathaan gave both conservatives and liberals room to hide, Dhurandhar extends no such courtesy. Aditya Dhar ripped open that tent of hypocrisy and turned the knife.