Responding to PM Modi’s Independence Day speech, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge reached for a familiar line: accusing the BJP and RSS of spreading hatred and division, he declared that the Congress, by contrast, is “opening a mohabbat ki dukaan” — a shop of love. It is a good soundbite. It is also, at this point,
BJP MLA Sumitro Chatterjee, a direct descendant of Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, has written to Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson Sonia Gandhi demanding an unconditional apology over what he called an “insult” to Vande Mataram at the Congress headquarters on Independence Day. His specific allegation is striking: he says that when Congress workers began singing the full
Late Friday evening, as India readied itself for eightieth Independence Day celebrations, a flash flood tore through the Pasu Pani Army Camp in Arunachal Pradesh’s Dibang Valley, sweeping away two shelters of the 5th Grenadier regiment. Seven soldiers were carried off by the water. Two were rescued. Five — Havaldar Upendar and jawans Kundan, Vinod,
From the Red Fort this Independence Day, Prime Minister Modi renewed India’s bid to host the 2036 Olympics and announced a nationwide talent hunt for children aged five to fifteen, aimed squarely at a blunt admission: India does not even qualify for roughly two-thirds of the sport’s 325 to 350 Olympic events. The goal, he
For fifteen months, National Security Advisor Ajit Doval said nothing publicly about Operation Sindoor, India’s 88-hour military response to the April 2025 Pahalgam terror attack. That silence ended not in a press conference, a parliamentary session, or a formal government briefing, but in a two-part Discovery documentary, timed to premiere on the evening of India’s
In an 80th Independence Day speech otherwise built around growth roadmaps and a seven-part “Shakti Ki Saptadhara” framework, one line has ended up dominating the conversation the following day. Prime Minister Modi declared that armed Maoism has been almost entirely eliminated from India’s forests, then pivoted to warn of a different, more diffuse threat: “dimaagi
Six months after Prime Minister Modi personally invited Tarique Rahman to visit India “at his earliest convenience,” Bangladesh’s government still cannot say when, or even whether, that visit will happen. This week, Dhaka’s State Minister for Foreign Affairs, Shama Obaed Islam, told reporters plainly that nothing has been finalised, adding only that the Prime Minister
Delhi has recorded 1,349 confirmed H1N1 cases so far this year, nearly six times the 229 cases reported over the same period in 2025. That is not a marginal fluctuation — it is close to a sixfold jump, in a city of more than 30 million people, during a monsoon season already straining hospitals with
On Thursday, the Bar Council of India told every state bar council in the country not to enrol a single 2026 graduate of NALSAR University of Law as an advocate, until further notice. By that evening, the order had been withdrawn. In the space of a few hours, an entire graduating class of one of
When President Trump announced in February that US tariffs on Indian goods would fall from 50 percent to 18 percent, Indian markets responded like a crisis had lifted. The rupee jumped, the Nifty surged as much as 5 percent, and Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal moved quickly to frame the outcome as a win — India,
