As the Supreme Court on 1 September 2025 dismissed a public interest litigation challenging the ethanol blended petrol program, launched by the Union government in New Delhi, vehicle-used petrol with 20 percent ethanol gets the green signal for selling through over 90,000 petrol pumps (fuel stations) across the country. The plea was made to direct…
Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, expresses serious concern over repeated deaths of Bangladeshi journalists in mysterious situations and urges the interim government in Dhaka to launch a genuine probe to find the reasons behind their unusual fatalities. Local media reported on 1 September 2025 that Khulna-based scribe Wahed-uz-Zaman…
One of India’s greatest patriots, educationists, fearless campaigners for national unity Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee was recently remembered for his exceptional contributions to the country in general and Assam in particular. The regional centre of Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts in collaboration with Assam directorate of Museums, Indigenous and Tribal Faith and Culture…
The indigenous population in Assam continues getting shocking revelations every alternate day from none other than State chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma. Pursuing a series of eviction drives to reclaim hundreds of thousands of bighas of government lands (including forest and water bodies) during his term as the head of Bharatiya Janata Party-led government in…
Geneva, 11 July 2025: The number of journalists killed rose dramatically in the first six months of this year. Since January, 86 media workers have been killed in 26 countries, more than 16% compared to last year, said the Press Emblem Campaign (PEC). The continuing hostilities in the Gaza Strip largely explain this very high…
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) In the serene and picturesque village of Karumanthurai, nestled in the Kalvarayan Hills of Salem district, Tamil Nadu, a young girl named A. Rajeswari has scripted an extraordinary story of grit, resilience, and triumph. Born into a humble Malayali (Scheduled Tribe) family, Rajeswari’s journey from a remote tribal hamlet to the prestigious…
New Delhi, July 9, 2025 — After a relentless pursuit spanning over two decades, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has successfully extradited fugitive Monika Kapoor from the United States. Kapoor, who had been absconding since 2002, is the prime accused in a high-value import-export fraud case. According to a CBI press release, Monika Kapoor—proprietor…
If language alone were the foundation of a state or of our identity, then why did Andhra Pradesh, the first state in Bharat to be formed on linguistic grounds in 1953, get divided into two Telugu-speaking states in 2014: Andhra and Telangana? Same language, yet different political aspirations. The truth is clear – language alone…
The Kerala High Court has initiated suo motu criminal contempt of court proceedings against R. Rajesh, a former CPI(M) MLA and current member of the Kerala University Syndicate, over a Facebook post in which he alleged that the judges presiding over education-related cases, including the University Registrar suspension matter, were aligned with the Sangh Parivar….
The Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) has suspended Assistant Executive Officer A. Rajasekhar Babu after receiving reports that he regularly attended church prayers every Sunday in his hometown, Puttur, located in Tirupati district. In an official statement issued on July 8, the TTD said, “It has come to our notice that A. Rajasekhar Babu attends church…
