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Chennai dams full: 27-year record broken after monsoon and cyclone

India, Dec. 14 -- For the first time in nearly 27 years, water in the three chief dams supplying drinking water to Chennai have reached their full reservoir level. Three other dams, too, are brimming ... Read More


India in talks with Mexico on high tariffs; reserves right to act to protect exporters

India, Dec. 14 -- India is engaged with Mexico over the South American nation's decision to unilaterally raise tariffs on a number of products to find mutually beneficial solutions, even as New Delhi ... Read More


Partition of India A Human Catastrophe

India, Dec. 14 -- In August 1947, India was partitioned into India and Pakistan. What was intended to be a political solution to terminate colonial control resulted in one of history's largest, most v... Read More


India approves its largest-ever digital population count

New Delhi, Dec. 13 -- The Centre on Friday approved the conduct of the Census of India 2027, clearing the country's largest administrative and statistical exercise after a prolonged gap. The Census wi... Read More


Bengal SIR: 58 lakh names marked for deletion

Kolkata, Dec. 13 -- About 58 lakh names of voters have been marked for deletion after Thursday, the last date of completion of Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bengal, sources in... Read More


Trump mulls new bloc to sideline EU and shake up NATO

USA, Dec. 13 -- A recent report has suggested that U.S. President Donald Trump is considering the creation of a new high-level international forum that would bring together five of the world's most in... Read More


SAARC: A regional dream needing renewal

India, Dec. 13 -- Forty years ago, South Asia envisioned a regional alliance that would serve the collective interests of a region home to one-fifth of humanity. Inspired by successful models like ASE... Read More


The one true purpose of life: Taking shelter of God

India, Dec. 13 -- Human life appears complex, yet its true purpose is profoundly simple: to take shelter of God and advance ourselves spiritually. The Bhagavad Gita (15.7) states that we are souls, et... Read More


Agniveer and the broken Gorkha legacy

India, Dec. 13 -- Pokhara has long been the cradle and nursery of Nepali Gorkha recruitment, a tradition abruptly halted in June 2022 when India dropped the Agniveer "bombshell" on Nepal and its Gorkh... Read More


Resurgence of Ashwagandha

India, Dec. 13 -- As the world confronts new stresses on health, society and the environment, a universal realisation is taking shape: restoring balance is no longer a philosophical idea but an urgent... Read More