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First Lalu Prasad Yadav and his eldest son Tej Pratap Yadav, also known as 'Teju Bhaiya', whose wayward ways irritated Lalu so much that he disowned the son and also threw him out of the Rashtriya Janata Dal for six years, which is the average time for a gone astray politician to mend his ways. Now, Lalu has company "down south", where another irritated political father, PMK founder S Ramadoss, has made it clear that he won't take his politician son's tantrums for granted.

KOLKATA: Ethnic strife-scarred Manipur’s immediate past chief minister Nongthombam Biren Singh, who has been lying low since his resignation from the post on February 9 is active again. On May 28 Biren met Governor Ajay Bhalla and submitted to him a 12 page-letter citing how illegal migrants from Myanmar and Bangladesh have through the years have been seriously impacting the demography of this small north-east state and how during his chiefministership he tried to rectify the situation in the interest of the indigenous people of Manipur.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Keralites woke up on Saturday, May 24, 2025 to the horrifying news of a Liberian-flagged cargo ship, MSC Elsa 3, sinking just 27 km away from the State’s coast, spilling hazardous cargo of calcium carbide, diesel and furnace oil.

LUCKNOW: NDA alliance partner Apna Dal (S) is playing an aggressive dalit card to join the race with other parties to woo scheduled castes and scheduled tribes to strengthen the support base of the party in Uttar Pradesh. Union Minister Anupriya Patel appointed a dalit leader RP Gautam as state president of Apna Dal to woo dalits voters during UP Assembly elections scheduled in 2027.

Congress party’s Thiruvananthapuram MP Shashi Tharoor’s roar is unlikely to pierce Congress eardrums. No, but fielding a former BJP uproot to take on Tharoor’s eloquence does speak of a bankruptcy of credible leaders in the grand old party. Does Tharoor give the impression of ‘irreplaceable’? You may not be able to say that about Rahul Gandhi, but Udit Raj? C'mon, that's stretching the imagination.

While there are reports of the dreaded Covid-19 making a reappearance in several countries, including India, the picture is not gloomy, as the world today, under the guidance of the latest WHO agreement on Covid-19 seems better equipped and coordinated to face the disease.

New Delhi: A special seminar was organized by ‘My Home India’ on the eve of the birth anniversary of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar on Tuesday, May 27, at New Maharashtra Sadan in New Delhi. A resolution was passed there for spreading Savarkar’s philosophy among youth across India.

The impeachment of Allahabad High Court judge Yashwant Varma in the wake of burnt notes being discovered from his residence appears to be a certainty. However, going by past experience, impeachment has rarely functioned as an effective deterrent against judicial misconduct in India.

Hyper-nationalism as a political thought is an outdated concept, since not a single country in the world has ever benefited from hyper-nationalism, since it is dehumanizing. It always brings miseries, as we have already seen in Mussolini’s fascism and Hitler’s Nazism. The most modern political philosophy is to work for shared prosperity and peace, among the countries of the world in general, and between neighbouring countries is particular.

President Donald Trump needs no introduction. Trump was the guy who came to India and attended a Modi jamboree at the 'Modi Stadium', where cricket is played and the ball of whichever colour, red or white, never sails out of the stadium's perimeter, it's that big!