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India’s political trajectory is completing the cycle I expected. In Modi’s India (Westland 2023), I studied the transition from national populism to electoral authoritarianism, a phase marked by the capture by the executive of key institutions (including the Election Commission) and the domestication of “mainstream” media with the help of crony capitalists. During this moment that other […]
India’s education fraternity faces the unfamiliar, uncomfortable questions following the alleged suicide of IIT-Bombay student Darshan Solanki, who reportedly jumped from the seventh floor of Hostel 16 where he stayed. The institute’s 12-member investigation committee has so far ruled out foul play. It claims that his possible “deteriorating academic performance” could have driven him to […]
Alibaba founder Jack Ma has travelled back to China and visited a school he founded in the city of Hangzhou, according to sources cited by the South China Morning Post on Monday. According to the report, Jack Ma, who is also the founder of Ant Group, spoke with the school about education and ChatGPT technology. […]
The 16th convention of All India Federation of State Civil/Administrative Service Officers was organised by the Rajasthan Administrative Service Council in Jaipur on Sunday. Among distinguished guests who virtually addressed the gathering former Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) Rajiv Mehrishi, held that integrity remains the keystone for public servants “It is very important to have […]
Gujarat-based SMEs (small and mid-size enterprises) raised Rs 645 crore through IPOs in the financial year 2022-23 and generated an average return of 31.8%, outperforming SMEs in the rest of the country which raised Rs 1,500 crore with an average return of 5.8%. In a recently published report by Pantomath Capital Advisors Pvt Ltd, the […]
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) sold all deposits and loans of Silicon Valley Bridge Bank deposits and loans by First–Citizens Bank & Trust Company on Monday. First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company will immediately accept Silicon Valley Bridge Bank, National Association’s depositors as depositors. “All deposits assumed by First–Citizens Bank & Trust Company will continue […]
Birsa Munda International Airport is all set to fly direct to three new destinations. While Sunday saw a take-off to Goa, on Monday Ranchi gets a direct flight to temple town Deoghar (Jharkhand). Comes Tuesday and travellers would be able to avail a direct flight to Jaipur, Rajasthan. “We are looking at boosting connectivity with […]
The top court will hear a batch of pleas on Monday challenging the release of 11 convicts who had gang-raped Bilkis Bano and murdered her family members during the 2002 Godhra riots. Last year, on August 10 the Gujarat government granted remission to 11 convicts, and they will be released on August 15, 2022. On […]
According to the latest telecom subscription report released by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), the number of telecom subscribers in December 2022 stood at 6.6 crore (precisely at 6,60,65,871), a drop of 14.08 lakh compared to 6.7 crore (precisely 6,74,74,267) in December 2021, notes the TRAI report. Gujarat lost 14 lakh mobile subscribers […]
Gangster Atiq Ahmed, who had expressed concern that he would be killed in a fake encounter by the Uttar Pradesh Police, reiterated his concerns as he was transferred from Gujarat’s Sabarmati jail to Uttar Pradesh’s Prayagraj on Sunday. “Murder, murder,” Atiq Ahmed uttered outside Ahmedabad’s Sabarmati jail as he was led away in a police […]
Akanksha Dubey, a well-known Bhojpuri model-turned-actor, was discovered dead in a hotel on Sunday in Varanasi. The police suspect the 25-year-old committed suicide. The body has been sent for a post-mortem, according to the police. “The prima facie report suggests it might be a case of suicide. But we have to wait for the post-mortem […]
Daniel Radcliffe and longtime girlfriend Erin Darke are expecting their first child together. On Saturday, a representative for the Harry Potter star revealed that Darke is pregnant. The two met while working on the 2013 movie, Kill Your Darlings, which had Radcliffe as the celebrated poet Allen Ginsberg and Darke as a character who has […]
An Air India flight from New Delhi and a Nepal Airlines flight from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, both bound for Kathmandu, almost collided on Friday morning. The warning systems informed the pilots and their prompt action averted the tragedy, authorities said in Kathmandu on Sunday. According to CAAN spokesperson Jagannath Niroula, the Civil Aviation Authority of […]
During a briefing in the Parliament, Saturday, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya was quizzed on the establishment of new medical colleges. He replied that the government has planned 58 new medical colleges in the first phase and 24 in the second phase of the Centrally-sponsored scheme for the establishment of new medical colleges attached to […]
Advance booking for the Ajay Devgn-starrer, Bholaa, is now available. Produced by Ajay Devgn Films, Reliance Entertainment, T-Series Films, and Dream Warrior Pictures, the movie is slated for release on March 30. The Tamil hit Kaithi, written and directed by Lokesh Kanagaraj, has been adapted into Hindi as Bholaa. Audiences are anxiously anticipating Bholaa because […]
Gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed will be ferried by UP Police to Prayagraj from Gujarat’s Sabarmati jail in a police van. The Uttar Pradesh police will vacate the jail grounds by 3 pm, Sunday. Ahmed is the primary suspect in the 2005 murder of BSP legislator Raju Pal and is currently lodged in a Sabarmati Jail. He […]
JP Nadda, the President of the Bharatiya Janata Party, claimed on Sunday that his party will win more than 200 of the 230 Assembly seats in Madhya Pradesh, where elections are scheduled to take place at the end of the year. He is at the state capital to lay the foundation for a BJP office. “The […]
ISRO’s heaviest rocket LVM3 carrying 36 satellites belonging to UK-based OneWeb Group lifted off from Sriharikota spaceport on Sunday. The agreement signed with Network Access Associates Ltd, the United Kingdom (OneWeb Group Company) for the launch of 72 satellites into Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) includes the second dedicated mission for NewSpace India Ltd, the commercial arm of the […]
The number of new coronavirus cases in India reached 1,890, the highest number in 149 days, while the number of active cases rose to 9,433, according to figures provided on Sunday by the Union health ministry. On October 28 of last year, there were 2,208 cases reported in the nation in a single day. With […]
After Rahul Gandhi’s disqualification from the Lok Sabha, the Congress on Sunday initiated a day-long “Sankalp Satyagraha” in support of him at Delhi’s Rajghat. Senior leaders KC Venugopal, P Chidambaram, Salman Khurshid, and General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra were among the top Congress leaders who participated in the satyagraha at Rajghat. Jairam Ramesh, Mukul Wasnik, […]
