PM Modi to inaugurate new Delhi BJP Office today

IANS | September 29, 2025 7:14 AM

New Delhi, Sep 29 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the new office of the Delhi BJP on Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyay Marg in the national capital on Monday, coinciding with the auspicious occasion of Saptami during the Navratri festival.

Families of TN stampede victims share ordeal

IANS | September 28, 2025 10:48 PM

New Delhi, Sep 28 (IANS) Heart-wrenching scenes unfolded in Tamil Nadu's Karur as families of victims recounted their grief after a stampede during Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) Chief and actor Vijay's campaign rally left several dead, including a two-year-old boy.

Vanishing silver, Britain's debate and India's drain (From the Archives)

Santosh Kumar Verma | September 28, 2025 10:21 PM

New Delhi, Sep 28 (IANS) On a cold Friday in March 1806, within the halls of the British House of Commons, a seemingly technical debate unfolded regarding shipping statistics and commercial regulations. To the parliamentarians present, it was a question of national interest, of profits, and of the proper management of their "immense eastern dominion". To us in India, whose land, labour, and resources were the subject of this distant deliberation, the debate was something else entirely.

Is Saudi-Pakistan pact the beginning of an Arab NATO?

Dhruv Jha | September 28, 2025 9:18 PM

New Delhi, Sep 28 (IANS) On September 17th, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan took the world by surprise when they announced their Strategic Mutual Defence Agreement. The much-talked-about agreement formalises the collective defence principle between the two Asian countries, which means that aggression against either country shall be considered an aggression against both.