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TopicSangeet Som

Topic: Sangeet Som

‘Role’ in Muzaffarnagar riots to calling SRK ‘traitor’, BJP’s Sangeet Som is no stranger to controversy

Former MLA has often made controversial statements targeting Muslim community. He is accused of instigating 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots, was detained under NSA in September that year.

Legal notice latest in Sangeet Som-Sanjeev Balyan tussle, Thakur-Jat split out in open in western UP

Discontent between the two BJP leaders has been simmering even before start of elections. Even UP CM Yogi Adityanath is said to have intervened, but to no avail.

Don’t give modern character certificates to rulers like Khilji or Tipu

Our interest in taking offence to what someone has said about our past is really an interest in folklore and not history.

Taj Mahal controversy is an extension of RSS’s ideological war

Ideological schizophrenia and a perverse reading of history projects the Taj Mahal as a symbol of hate and barbarism.

From Lord Curzon to BJP’s Sangeet Som, Taj Mahal has many political narratives

Taj Mahal has always functioned as a political text, capable of producing a number of different and even conflicting meanings.

On Camera

Why sharp selloff in Japanese bonds has a message for India’s budget

Although its overall GDP will soon be bigger than Japan’s, on a per-capita basis India is still 12 times poorer.

India’s looking at 14 million metric tonnes of e-waste by 2030, recycling can’t keep up—NITI Aayog

Country's used lithium-ion battery problem is also set to grow sharply in next decade. India 3rd largest e-waste producer with 7% global share but currently recycles only about 10% of it.

Indian Army ties up with US drone company that made its name in the Ukraine conflict

Shield AI will provide V-BAT vertical takeoff & landing drones along with licences for software, which will be integrated into aircraft and made available to select Indian partners.

Non-alignment is coming back in a new avatar: Trump-peedit alliance

No nation other than China can negotiate one-on-one with Trump on an equal footing. That’s why the middle powers who so far formed the core of multilateral bodies now feel orphaned.