Opinion

CM Dhami Inaugurates First Drone Factory In Roorkee

DEHRADUN: Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami inaugurated the first drone factory of the state in Roorkee in Haridwar district on Friday. The factory which is said to have a production capability of 150 drones per month, which include 50 drones for military usage, is set up by a private company under the centre’s ‘Make […]

Investigating Criminal Medical Negligence

  “DON’T HARASS INNOCENT DOCTORS.” These were the exact words written in bold by Dr. Archana Sharma of Rajasthan’s Dausa in her suicide note. The case of the Rajasthan gynecologist is a perfect example of what the police should not do in cases of medical negligence. In this case, a pregnant patient visited the private […]

Rocketry & Other Tales Of Intrigue

  I watched the Tamil version of Rocketry: The Nambi Effect last Sunday in a new and fine theatre with red push-back seats in Kottayi, a small village in Kerala’s Palakkad. At the lobby, they sold coffee and popcorn and all of it was just as good as anything in Delhi or Bombay, and you wondered how […]

Russo-Indo-Sino-East (RISE) Against Medieval Fundamentalism

  The beheading of a tailor in Udaipur by two local, homegrown Islamist radicals adds yet another name to an extremely long list of murders in the name of Islam in the Indian subcontinent. This atrocity follows a TV debate and a resultant outrage; one that got manufactured in social media courtesy the woke-media combine […]

Stop Supporting Punishment for Blasphemy

The barbaric slaughter of a Hindu tailor, Kanhaiya Lal Teli in Udaipur by Islamists over “blasphemy” against Islam’s Prophet, is reprehensible. Whether this beheading was caused by the frenzy generated over BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma’s remarks quoting Islamic scripture, is for the law to determine. But what is undeniable is that the most vocal section […]