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Ten days have passed since the gruesome killings of 26 people at Pahalgam on April 22. In the following days, Prime Minister Narendra Modi gave a lead to the boiling mood of the nation by announcing a number of measures, including the suspension of the 1960-signed Indus Water Treaty, followed by Pakistan’s retaliation through its own set of counter-measures, including coming out of the 1972 Shimla Agreement.

The terrorist outrage in Pahalgam, which left 26 tourists dead, has united the whole country in condemnation and grief. 25 families spread across India and one family in Nepal saw a beloved family member being murdered in cold blood. By choosing to kill people after ascertaining their religion, the terrorists hoped to create a communal divide and fuel communal tensions in the country. But the opposite has happened. There has been a spontaneous outpouring of anger and condemnation by all sections of society and people, irrespective of caste and creed, have spoken with one voice. At the political level, all political parties have expressed their resolve to unitedly face this dastardly attack.

By announcing to conduct caste census in India after a gap of about a century, the last being conducted with the Census 1931, PM Narendra Modi led government has not only done away with the independent India’s historical decision not to have caste census at all, but also the BJP’s historical position against conducting caste census, chiefly out of the fear that such an exercise may reinforce the caste system. The decision marks a significant shift in India’s policy that is bound to impact all walks of life–especially the politics, economics, and the social conduct.

The more the three armed forces’ chiefs sit on a decision to strike at Pakistan with uncommon force, the more the chance Pakistan will escape with inconsequential punishment. Point being made is that in the Indian context, a decision on whether or not to go to war is taken by the civilian leadership, but if the civilian leadership says it has left the decision to the armed forces, it's a slip of the tongue!

The killing of 26 tourists and injuring of many more tourists in Baisaran in Kashmir was a tragedy beyond words. The terrorists claimed to be part of Pakistan based Lashkar-e-Tayyaba’s front ‘The Resistance Front’, who have taken the responsibility for this dastardly act. They identified people by religion and brutally fired upon them. One of the people killed was Syed Adil Shah, the one who used to take the tourists on pony.

New Delhi: The Cerebral Palsy Sports Federation of India (CPSFI) along with World Abilitysport are holding an International Awareness Seminar on Classification in Para Sports here. The two-day event will be held 29–30 May 2025 at the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi.

Trump’s aggressive tariff war with China – built on a throwback protectionist logic more suited to the 1800s than today’s intertwined economy – has driven Chinese firms to redeploy their strategies. Major Chinese exporters, now facing punitive U.S. tariffs as high as 145 percent, are desperately seeking other markets and partners. Chinese companies are said to be “amenable to conditions requiring stake dilution in favour of Indian entities” – in other words, they’re finally willing to sell meaningful slices of their businesses to Indian partners in order to enter India’s fast growing market.

We have heard of the headless chicken flopping about. And of those days of 'Jhatka' when headless bled in plain sight. On Tuesday, April 29, a sketch of a headless torso in a kurta-churidar ensemble of rare finish and finery hit the scene. Whose headless torso was it, who stood inside the 'Kurta' and the 'Churidar'?

Cement along with some other big polluting industries is being included in the national emissions trading system (ETS). A leading Indian cement producer says: “We are closely watching carbon capturing work by our counterpart in China and other pollution mitigating work done there. The common goal for the world’s two largest cement makers is to progressively reduce the industry’s carbon footprint.” Pressured to comply with environmental regulations in an unfavourable industry outlook marked by falling cement prices telling on margins, the industry consolidation gains in momentum.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The much-hyped BJP’s Christian outreach programme in Kerala has suffered a severe setback, thanks to a self-goal scored by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).