At 90 degrees North, where every direction is south and the frozen Arctic Ocean forms the ground beneath, the Indian tricolour was hoisted — not on a pole, but in the hands of a man running into history. On July 13, 2025, Kolkata-born entrepreneur and adventurer Ram Gopal Kothari became the first Indian to complete…
NEW DELHI: Congress on Sunday launched a sharp attack on the the Election Commission of India (ECI), calling its claim of making “no distinction” between the ruling party and the opposition “laughable.”Congress party leader Jairam Ramesh sharing a post on X, accused the poll body of being “thoroughly exposed” for its “incompetence” and “blatant partisanship,”…
NEW DELHI: Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar on Sunday accused Congress leader Rahul Gandhi of “manipulating” poll body’s data to level charges of “vote chori” against the Commission.In a press conference, the CEC said that the Congress leader, in his presentation, wrongly analysed the EC’s data to claim that the elections were flawed.“When someone goes…
Putin pays tribute to Soviet pilots buried on American land (Source: X/@mog_russEN) Russian President Vladimir Putin paid his respects as he knelt and laid flowers at the graves of Soviet pilots buried in Alaska, following his historic meeting with his American counterpart Donald Trump.On Saturday, he visited Fort Richardson National Cemetery near Anchorage, where a…
At the Alaska summit with Donald Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin demanded full control of Ukraine’s Donetsk and Luhansk regions as a condition for ending the three-year war, signaling he would not back down from what he called his core demands to “resolve the root causes” of the conflict, the Financial Times reported.In return, he…
NEW DELHI: Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) president and former Bihar Chief Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav on Sunday took a jibe at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), referring to the party as “thieves,” while speaking at the launch of the Congress-led ‘Voter Adhikar Yatra’ in Sasaram. Yadav accused BJP of harming democracy by stealing people’s votes…
NEW DELHI: The Election Commission of India on Sunday hit back at Congress MP Rahul Gandhi and other opposition leaders, rejecting their allegations of vote theft and concerns related to SIR in Bihar as “misleading”.“Using words like vote chori to mislead people is a disrespect to the Constitution,” Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar said.Addressing a…
KOLKATA/HINDMOTOR: Thieves broke into the Hindmotor house of former ace swimmer Bula Choudhury and cleaned up her trophy cabinet that contained almost all her awards — over 150 medals and mementos that she had won during a career spanning more than a decade-and-a-half. The loss included the Padma Shri brooch she received in 2009 and…
PM Modi at inauguration of two major national highway projects in Delhi-NCR (Screen grab from X @narendramodi) NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday launched a scathing attack on the Congress, accusing previous governments of undermining the spirit of the Constitution and perpetuating oppressive laws.While speaking at the inauguration of two major national highway…
Foreign secretary Vikram Misri calls on Nepal Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli during his two-day visit, in Kathmandu on Sunday. (Picture credit: ANI) NEW DELHI: Foreign secretary Vikram Misri started his two-day visit to Nepal on Sunday with a courtesy meeting with Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli in Singha Durbar. The meeting was also attended…
