1+ hour, 19+ min ago   (415+ words) Senior Congress leader K.C. Venugopal on Sunday sought to douse the controversy over the singing of the full version of Vande Mataram at the All India Congress Committee (AICC) headquarters in New Delhi, describing the episode as merely a “matter of…...

7+ hour, 24+ min ago   (589+ words) The streets of Ranchi echoed with patriotic slogans on Saturday as thousands of students protesting alleged irregularities in Jharkhand’s recruitment examinations took out a ‘Tiranga Yatra’, turning Independence Day into a fresh show of defiance against the state government. The…...

2+ hour, 23+ min ago   (459+ words) Former West Bengal Assembly deputy speaker and veteran Trinamool Congress leader Ashish Banerjee was found dead at a party office in Hattalapara, Rampurhat, Birbhum, on Sunday, sending a wave of shock through the locality. Banerjee, who represented Rampurhat for five…...

1+ hour, 47+ min ago   (485+ words) Where there is power, there is resistance…Resistance has no single locus, no one great refusal. [It] is…dispersed across society, appearing wherever power is exercised.’ That’s Michel Foucault, French philosopher and political scientist, in his 1978 work on the history…...

2+ hour, 21+ min ago   (606+ words) Antarctic glaciers are releasing increasing amounts of mercury into the surrounding ocean as climate change accelerates ice melt, potentially exposing marine organisms to a toxic pollutant that can accumulate through the food chain, according to a new study. Published in…...

5+ hour, 3+ min ago   (738+ words) The Maharashtra Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has turned its spotlight on a high-profile Vimal Elaichi advertisement, issuing show-cause notices to actors Shah Rukh Khan, Ajay Devgn and Tiger Shroff over allegations that the campaign could amount to the indirect…...

2+ hour, 42+ min ago   (605+ words) The Tricolour can hold its head high this year, despite the misfortune of its unfurling at the Red Fort by a man who does not deserve to hold it. It was a slightly freer air that our national flag breathed…...

4+ hour, 23+ min ago   (328+ words) A wave of gun violence across the United States has left one person dead and at least nine others injured in separate shootings in Kentucky and Virginia, with police investigations underway and authorities yet to disclose details about possible suspects....

6+ hour, 8+ min ago   (372+ words) The past week saw officials and diplomats from both sides attempting to salvage bilateral ties, jolted by an aggressive press conference in New Delhi by exiled former prime minister Sheikh Hasina. On 9 August, RAW chief Parag Jain, along with senior…...

3+ hour, 53+ min ago   (414+ words) Colombia’s newly elected President Abelardo de la Espriella has appealed to US President Donald Trump for a temporary suspension of tariffs on Colombian goods, as the South American nation grapples with the staggering human and economic fallout of a devastating…...