MUMBAI: The baton is changing hands, gradually, as Asia’s richest man Mukesh Ambani on Tuesday stepped down as the director of India’s largest digital telecom company Reliance Jio, the telecom arm of Reliance Industries Limited (RIL). Ambani senior passed on the baton to his son Aakash, who will become the chairman of the company, after […]
PORBANDAR: In a move to strengthen India’s maritime security, the Indian Coast Guard has commissioned an indigenous Advanced Light Helicopter (ALH) MK III squadron at its Air Enclave in Porbandar on Tuesday. The ALH MK III was commissioned by the Indian Coast Guard, Director-General VS Pathania, along with various military and civil dignitaries attending the […]
Mamta Tiwari – an Allahabad girl, an LSR alumna, and a senior counsel with a reputed legal firm – recollects: When I went for an admission interview at LSR in 1988, the Principal Miss UJ Rana asked why I wanted to take admission to Delhi University when good, old Allahabad University was there. I […]
Being the birthplace of Lord Shri Ram, Ayodhya has always been a very important pilgrimage centre for the Hindus. It is considered one of the abodes of an avatar of Shri Hari Vishnu. It is also an important historical and cultural city in the state of Uttar Pradesh with tourists from across the globe visiting […]
MUMBAI/NEW DELHI: On a day when the Supreme Court of India is to take up two petitions from the Shiv Sena rebels, a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) has been filed against the rebel leader Eknath Shine and other ministers for ‘omission of duties’. The PIL was filed by a group of seven citizens of Maharashtra. […]
MUMBAI/NEW DELHI: With the mud-slinging between Shiv Sena’s feuding factions reaching the Supreme Court’s corridors, the rebel Eknath Shinde has built an emotional case in his writ, saying the principles of party founder Balasaheb Thackeray of a strong “Hindu nationalist” ideology and party’s “Hindu Marathi” identity has been defaced, leading to this imminent division. Shinde […]
NEW DELHI: The ugly battle for the control of Shiv Sena – the ruling party of Maharashtra – has now reached the Supreme Court, with rebel MLA Eknath Shine now disputing CM Uddhav Thackeray’s move to disqualify him and 15 of his rebel companions inside the rooms of the apex court. The matter has been […]
NEW DELHI: Hours after anti-social elements attacked the Tripura state headquarters of the party, Congress on Sunday condemned the mindless attack that left its state president Birajit Sinha with head injuries. Congress was in a celebratory mood after its candidate Sudip Roy Barman won the Agartala assembly bypoll beating Ashok Sinha of the BJP. However, […]
One is not born, but rather becomes a woman – Simone de Beauvoir Women’s representation is still a highly contested issue in the Indian political system. Across India, gender inequality results in unequal opportunities, and while it adversely impacts the lives of both genders, statistically, it is girls who are the most disadvantaged. Some Indian […]
Why should we treat Ukraine as a model? Ever since 2019, with the BJP government getting re-elected, the western media has been shouting hoarsely about the ‘right-wing Hindutva movement’ in India. But more pertinent than ‘Is India really a right-wing country now’, is the question: Does the US have an issue with right-wing ideology? […]