New Delhi: Russian Ambassador Denis Alipov on Sunday claimed that a senior American official had let slip Washington’s real thinking about India’s rise. Speaking at the NDTV Defence Summit, he pointed to remarks made earlier this year at the Raisina Dialogue and called them a “Freudian slip.” “I think this year at the Raisina Dialogue,
Early Sunday morning things got really heated at Lovely Professional University in Phagwara. Students started gathering after some messages went viral on social media saying a girl on campus had been raped. No one had any solid proof, but the posts spread fast and people got angry. By around 1:45 in the morning, police got
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Yesterday on Friday the Congress and a bunch of student and civil society groups went all out against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar. They’re saying he has to resign, some are even calling for his arrest. The whole thing is boiling over because of that Special Intensive Revision of the voter lists and that report
The Election Commission of India used to be one of those rare institutions people still trusted. In a country as noisy and divided as ours, that mattered. You could argue about parties, about governments, about almost everything else, but the EC was supposed to be the referee that stayed clean. That reputation is taking a
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With the SIR thoroughly vitiated, CEC Gyanesh Kumar must resign The Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls – this big clean-up drive they call SIR – was supposed to be about making the voter lists pure and accurate. No eligible person left out, no ineligible one kept in. That’s the line. But the way it’s
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The weather department is still calling it a deep depression sitting out in the Bay of Bengal. But everyone’s already using the name Arnab because that’s what it will be called if it gets stronger. The name was given by Bangladesh, means “ocean” in Bengali, and it’s next on the list. As of last night,
External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar is going to be at the first meeting of this new group called Partners for Multilateralism — people are already shortening it to P4M — in New York this week. It lines up with the big UN General Assembly gathering, and basically India is showing up for an attempt to
Last night at IIT Bombay, after three full days of students sitting near the main gate, the director, Professor Shireesh Kedare, finally sat down with them for almost three hours. He signed their 18-point list of demands. The whole meeting was live-streamed by the students themselves. That was Sunday night, 20 September. It all started
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President Donald Trump headed out to Camp David on Friday evening for a quiet weekend. He was supposed to stay through Sunday and come back then. But on Saturday evening he suddenly packed up and flew back to the White House a full day early. No official reason from the White House. Just a schedule
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Yesterday felt like one of those days when the ground shifts under your feet in Bengal politics. Mamata Banerjee, the woman who built the Trinamool Congress from scratch nearly three decades ago, woke up to find her party’s name and that familiar grass-and-twin-flowers symbol locked away by the Election Commission. Both her faction and the
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