The red flags in the forests of Bastar or Dantewada, the ambushes, the landmine blasts, the young men and women who disappeared into the hills carrying rifles. It started with a real place and a real fight over land. May 1967. A small village called Naxalbari in the foothills of the Himalayas in West Bengal. […]
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Gulzar was a simple daily-wage man, around 47. His son got hooked on chitta – you know that deadly drug that’s everywhere in Punjab these days. The addiction was so bad they even sold their house. On 6th September, Finance Minister Harpal Singh Cheema came to their village for some public meeting. Gulzar stood up
Durga Puja this year is going to feel different. West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari sat down with hundreds of puja organisers at Milan Mela grounds on Monday and laid out a clear set of rules. Some will cheer, some will grumble, but the message was straightforward: the festival stays big, the excesses get cut
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The building with cracked walls, damp patches that never dry, and pillars that feel like they’re holding on out of habit more than strength. That’s exactly what this building in Satya Niketan was. Fifty years old, give or take a few. Built when the area was still a resettlement colony for ordinary families, not the
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Just hours after ISRO’s successful GSLV-F17 launch carrying the EOS-05 earth observation satellite from Sriharikota on 4 September, a quiet but firm letter landed on the desk of Chairman V. Narayanan. Nine employee associations representing thousands of staff across the organisation’s major centres had put their concerns in writing. They wanted clear answers about where
These GDP numbers come out and suddenly everyone’s shouting from the rooftops? One side is cheering 7.8 percent growth in the first quarter, the other is waving papers saying it’s actually closer to 2.5 percent if you dig into the revisions. Former finance secretary Subhash Chandra Garg kicked it off by pointing out that last
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A senior U.S. official cautioned against reading too much into Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent meeting with Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian, saying a face-to-face conversation shouldn’t be taken as proof that India and Iran are striking a new strategic deal. The message was simple: leaders meet and talk — that doesn’t automatically mean they have
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India puts out its Q1 GDP numbers — April to June of this financial year — and the official figure is a solid 7.8 per cent growth. Looks good, right? Beats the RBI’s more cautious 7 per cent call. Prime Minister even jumps in talking about collective strength and doomsayers being proved wrong. And then
Instead of just the usual formal stuff, he handed President Shavkat Mirziyoyev the original handwritten scoresheet from Javokhir Sindarov’s World Cup final win in Goa last year. The actual piece of paper where the moves were written down. It came in a simple leatherette cover, along with a photo of Sindarov holding the trophy with
In the middle of a global mess, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has gone back to an old idea that still resonates deeply with many Indians: look after your own house first. Speaking at a public meeting in Hyderabad in May this year, he made a straightforward appeal. Don’t buy gold for a year if you
