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“Our embassy and consulates, they are in touch with the students to provide support,” the MEA said. New Delhi: The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) has, for the first time, publicly stated that Indian students facing issues with their F-1 visas have reached out to Indian missions, which are providing them with “support”. The statement came […]
The NYT has noted that “the direct language” Modi has used against Muslims contrasts with the image he presents globally. In recent years, the Hindutva Right and BJP leaders have often used “puncturewalla”, a colloquial term for someone who repairs tyre punctures, as a slur against working-class Muslims in India. On Monday (April 14), Prime […]
Cases involving the technique of ‘digital arrest’ have spiked hugely in Gujarat. News reports quoting police data said 67 digital arrest fraud cases have come to light in just two months of 2025 alone. New Delhi: Two weeks after an elderly couple died by suicide in Karnataka’s Belgavi town after they were defrauded of Rs 60 […]
The prospect of the US teetering on the brink of autocracy would have been unthinkable just two decades ago. Yet, nearly two centuries ago, a young French scholar foresaw this potential unraveling. US President Donald Trump’s imposition of import tariffs, brandished like a banner of liberation, is a manifestation of mob rule. He presented these […]
The current economic slowdown that India is experiencing, and the chronic joblessness its youth is suffering from, make the quest for an economic model more pressing than ever. The trajectory of Gujarat has been presented by Narendra Modi as a “model” when he was at the helm of the state between 2001 and 2014, especially […]
New Delhi: When Allahabad High Court Judge Shekhar Kumar Yadav came under scrutiny for his communal and divisive remarks and hate speech, the Supreme Court collegium (SCC), headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Sanjiv Khanna, came up short in disciplining him. Hype and strong words, most of them passed on off-the-record to a section of […]
New Delhi: In a display of transparency unparalleled in the history of the Indian judiciary, Chief Justice of India (CJI) Sanjeev Khanna has made public the initial set of reports which form the basis for the Supreme Court initiating an inquiry into allegations that an unspecified amount of unaccounted cash was seen at an outhouse/store room in the […]
These days, Elon Musk seems to have taken Narendra Modi’s place. Earlier, there was a war over who is closer to Prime Minister Modi. Now, let there be a fight over who is closer to Musk, Mukesh Ambani or Sunil Bharti Mittal. As soon as the news came on March 11 that Mittal’s Airtel had […]
Any deconstruction of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent podcast with Lex Fridman, a conversation driven by delusions and powered by platitudes, could be an offence to reason. But since journalists are expected to follow their leaders’ enterprises, even at the cost of consuming soporifics, we managed to salvage a few gems. Fridman begins the three-hour […]
New Delhi: Prime minister Narendra Modi has said that Gujarat had a long history of communal riots, even before he was “in the picture” and pointed to the “backdrop” of a spate of terror attacks before the violence to say that the perception that the riots were the biggest ever in the state was “misinformation”. He […]
New Delhi: Gujarat has emerged as a breeding ground for human trafficking agents an Enforcement Directorate (ED) investigation has found. The central agency has uncovered a network of 4,000-4,500 trafficking agents, of which 2,000 are from Gujarat alone, an ED official told the Telegraph. These agents are involved with at least 150 Canadian colleges that help people from India […]
Speculation is currently rife regarding Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath emerging as Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s successor. At a recent event in New Delhi, he was even asked this question directly. But as long as Modi remains India’s prime minister, it will always be early to pose the question, ‘who after Modi’ or ‘who can […]
New Delhi: Starting April 1, 2026, income tax authorities will be able to access and scrutinise every person’s social media accounts, personal emails, bank accounts, online investment accounts, trading accounts and more. Authorities will be able to override access to digital platforms if they suspect that the individual has evaded income tax or if they have […]
New Delhi: At least 286 lions, including 143 cubs, have died in Gujarat over the last two years, state forest minister Mulubhai Bera informed the legislative assembly on Tuesday, March 4. In addition to that, 456 leopards, of them 140 cubs, have also died in 2023 and 2024 in the state, the Press Trust of India reported. […]
The recent stampede at the Maha Kumbh Mela site in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, is but a chapter in the denialism of tragic deaths in India. Nonetheless, it raises concerns. The refusal to acknowledge systemic failures in the management of the Kumbh Mela can be made sense of in two different ways. First, in likening the […]
Two weeks ago, US President Donald Trump sacked the first African American Chairman of the US Military’s Joint Chiefs of Staff, Air Force General C.Q. Brown. Trump’s professed rationale for removing the highest-ranking military officer in the US was to eliminate Diversity, Equality and Inclusion (DEI) programmes of which the General was an advocate. Brown […]
Bengaluru: In his 119th episode of Mann Ki Baat on February 23, Prime Minister Narendra Modi was all praise for India’s indigenous tribal communities. Many wild species are “deeply embedded” in our history and culture, Modi said, and several tribes revere them as gods and goddesses. He cited the examples of Waghoba, the leopard god that some tribal […]
The Modi government may adopt an ostrich-like attitude or even justify what the Americans have done, but the fact remains that for Indians, the manner in which hundreds of undocumented Indians were sent back was viewed as a national humiliation. First person accounts of their hardship – cuffs on hands and feet, long flights on military […]
It is rather rich of the Supreme Court to preach morality when, not too long ago, not a single Supreme Court judge publicly objected to their Chief Justice presiding over cases despite serious allegations of sexual harassment. On February 17, the Supreme Court heard YouTuber Ranveer Allahbadia’s plea for interim protection in multiple obscenity cases […]
New Delhi: Over two weeks have passed since Abdul Razzak, a hotel-owner in Gujarat’s Kheda district, saw images of his hotel being flashed across the local media as a part of what he calls a “smear campaign”. The owner of Rangoli Hotel, Razzak heaves a weary sigh today, even as his voice appears flummoxed. “Ours is […]
