Email to PM Modi flags alleged recruitment irregularities at Visva-Bharati University

IANS | January 5, 2026 11:52 AM

Kolkata, Jan 5 (IANS) Allegations of irregularities have surfaced regarding appointments to non-academic and administrative permanent posts at Visva-Bharati University, the central university founded by Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore and located in Santiniketan, a UNESCO World Heritage site in the Birbhum district of West Bengal.

PM Modi, HM Shah likely to visit Assam this month: CM Sarma

IANS | January 4, 2026 10:59 PM

Guwahati, Jan 4 (IANS) Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah are likely to visit the state later this month, although the proposed programmes are yet to receive official confirmation.

The Alibi of Atrocity: How Britain's 'self-defence' became India's final conquest (From the Archives)

Santosh Kumar Verma | January 4, 2026 10:49 PM

New Delhi, Jan 4 (IANS) The history of 19th-century India, as chronicled through the records of its foreign rulers, is a study in paradox. While the British East India Company (EIC) claimed to govern for the "welfare and happiness of the inhabitants", providing "new and valuable property" and administering justice, the reality inferred from the parliamentary debates in London was far darker: a system burdened by immense debt, a stifled native press, and a fundamental relationship where Indians were viewed not as fellow-subjects, but as those whom the British were "despots over".