NAGPUR: In a subtle retort to detractors amidst the ethanol controversy, Union minister Nitin Gadkari on Saturday said, “My brain is worth 200 crore a month. I am not at all short of money and I don’t stoop low.”He emphasised that his work and experiments are driven by ideas and purpose for farmers, rather than…

When filmmaker Anuparna Roy was a child, she listened wide-eyed as her grandmother spoke dreamily of a river. Her maternal grandmother, married at nine to a man in his 30s in Purulia district of West Bengal, often told her stories about the river’s pure, beautiful water. “I always thought she must have seen this river,…

NEW DELHI: Election Commission on Saturday filed an affidavit in Supreme Court declaring that it alone has full discretion to conduct a special intensive revision (SIR) or general revision of electoral rolls before a general elections, assembly polls or bye-elections to a constituency.Opposing a PIL by advocate Ashwini Upadhyay requesting SC to direct EC to…