In the coming days, unless Modi tones down the communal spiel, it will be clear that anxiety continues to drive his mind and clouds his judgment, observes Modi biographer Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay.
'There was a statement by a minister that 30,000 Kashmiri Pandits have come back to the Kashmir Valley after the abrogation of Article 370, it is all b.......t and a white lie.' 'Nobody has come back.'
The Commission concluded that the bank officials had evidently been negligent in failing to compare the signature prior to making payment, notes Jehangir B Gai.
By refusing to follow the pack and remain politically correct, Aamir Khan has paid a price. A fascinating excerpt from Shobhaa De's new book, Insatiable.
Dr Rajesh Shukla, author of How India Earns, Spends and Saves: Unmasking the Real India, warns against the rising income inequalities India has witnessed after economic liberalisation.
The earnestness of the actors keep Kaala Paani from drowning, observes Deepa Gahlot.
Now that the economy is growing at a higher-than-expected rate, it is time to accelerate the pace of fiscal consolidation, and the Budget could be a good starting point, argues Rajesh Kumar.
Dr Rajesh Parikh, consulting neuropsychiatrist at Jaslok Hospital on how to cope with job-related and domestic stress and frustration.
Which entrepreneur would willingly part with her or his hard-earned money for grasping, self-serving politicians? asks Debashis Basu.
'Our study finds that only about 20% of Indians are vegetarians and the rest of the 80% are non-vegetarians or meat-eaters.'
'All the big production houses are making superhero films, so I thought I should make one too. So I have made a genuine superhero film,' Vivek Agnihotri says about his new film, The Vaccine War.
'Conrad Sangma is an interesting mix of charisma, ability and has emerged as a capable leader.' 'Neiphiu Rio is very unassuming, quiet, subtle and stands out among all Naga leaders today.'
The vaccine maker Bharat Biotech said in a statement that preliminary reviews indicated that the death was unrelated to Covaxin.
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Friday opposed the bail application of Rajkumar, an accused in the sensational Noida double murder case, saying investigations against him were continuing.The bail application of another accused Krishna, compounder of Dr Rajesh Talwar, father of slain teenager Aarushi, was also moved in the designated CBI court by his counsel R K Anand and F C Sharma.The arguments on this application would be heard in the afternoon.
The Central Bureau of Investigation has finally managed to crack the Noida murder case. Although the CBI has received vital information through the scientific tests conducted on the various suspects, the agency will take some time to put together the evidence and submit it for the trial.The CBI was hoping for a breakthrough during the tests conducted on Rajkumar. However, the Brain Electronic Oscillation Signature tests conducted on him failed.
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Friday arrested Rajkumar, domestic help of the Durranis, in connection with the Aarushi Talwar murder case. The Durranis are family friends of the Talwars.He was arrested after the forensic examination of a washed T-shirt belonging to Rajkumar revealed that it had blood of human origin.The CBI has already arrested Aarushi's father Dr Rajesh Talwar and his compounder Krishna for the murder of Aarushi and their servant Hemraj.
On Sunday, the CBI subjected both Dr Rajesh and Nupur Talwar (parents of Aarushi) to a polygraph test in order to ascertain whether the statements given by the duo are corroborating or not. CBI sources told rediff.com that, if need be, they may subject Dr Talwar to a narco analysis test. He may have to be brought down to Bangalore in case they decide to go ahead with the test.
Krishna, an accused in the Noida double murder case, was on Saturday remanded by a Ghaziabad court to Central Bureau of Investigation's custody for three days, to facilitate his interrogation. The accused, who was working as compounder with Dr Rajesh Talwar and was arrested by the Noida police for the murder of his daughter Aarushi and domestic help Hemraj, was placed under arrest by the CBI on Friday after a series of scientific tests.
It is official now. Krishna, the compounder of Dr Rajesh Talwar, has been made a prime accused in the Aarushi murder case.
During the scientific tests that lasted the entire day, various theories regarding the case came up. While some maintained that the CBI had not made any breakthrough in the case, some investigating officers said they will be able to corroborate the evidence based on the questioning done on Wednesday and the scientific tests conducted on Thursday.
Officials of the CBI had brought Dr Rajesh Talwar's coumpounder, Krishna, to Bengaluru in order to subject him to brain mapping and narco-analysis tests. Prior to conducting the scientific tests, Krishna was questioned at length by both the CBI and Forensic Science Laboratory officials, a pre-requisite before the actual tests are conducted.
'It is requested that photographs relating to the scene of crime relating to the first two days coverage till the discovery of the dead body of (domestic help) Hemraj taken by your photographers may be provided urgently to us,' an official communique from the CBI to photo editors said. The move comes four days after the CBI had approached the television news channels for providing the 'unedited' and 'raw' footage of the case.
The Noida police on Friday arrested Dr Rajesh Talwar, father of 14-year-old Aarushi, who was murdered on May 16 in their Noida residence, was arrested on Friday.The police had refused to disclose who may have been killed first, but stated that the modus operandi was the same in both the murders and the timing was almost the same.
'The planning and implementation has gone horribly wrong.' 'What they are doing is in effect, establishing a large cheetah zoo.'
The minister was admitted in the new private ward under the supervision of Dr Rajesh Malhotra who heads the orthopaedic department there, said a senior doctor at AIIMS.
Konkona Sen Sharma and Sohum Shah play Aarushi's parents, while Tabu plays Aarushi's aunt. Irrfan Khan plays the officer investigating the case.
In a startling relevation, Krishna, the compounder at Dr Rajesh Talwar's clinic who underwent a narco-analysis test in Bangalore on Thursday, said a second person was involved in the murders of the latter's daughter Aarushi and the servant Hemraj, but he was not forthcoming when questioned as to who it was
'I was amazed at how tasty it was.' 'They did a good job with millets and lentils, which Mr Modi liked.'
'The space required for wild cheetah populations to thrive was grossly under-estimated.' 'Cheetahs, because of their social system and ecologically fragile nature, live at only 1 cheetah per 100 sq kms even in the best habitats of Africa.'
Sukanya Verma recaps all those events from 25 years ago.
There is no evidence against Rajesh Talwar in the Aarushi case, the CBI has said.
'Without a poverty line, how are we to know whether poverty is the same, or it has come down or it has gone up?'
'All of our lives are going to be changed in a permanent way...' 'We just have to ride out the tide right now and we will see a rainbow at the end of this.'
'...despite not being ideologically aligned with a vast section of the people of the north east.' 'But the results in Tripura, Nagaland and Meghalaya show that no party, including the BJP, can say that it has really done well.'
Those who continue to think that the 2024 election will see the BJP pursuing a more militant line are being alarmist, argues Rajeev Mantri. The BJP, Mantri believes, is not about to shoot itself in the foot. If anything, he says, the BJP may be more inclined to push a harder secularism.
A revealing excerpt from Rahul Shivshankar and Siddhartha Talya's book, Modi & India: 2024 and the Battle for Bharat.
Targeted at one million schoolchildren and college students, besides working professionals and researchers, the three-month course will be available in online mode, free of cost, to people in India and abroad.
With the kind of money and talent that has gone into making this movie, a really good biopic of a personality like Savarkar could be made. But this film is lost in polemics, as is the case with almost every biopic and period drama today, observes Utkarsh Mishra.
The prime minister's insistence that his voice cannot be suppressed left me both puzzled and amused. He has at his call, the government's official news dissemination/publicity channels, the pliant newspapers and television channels that were eager to prostrate themselves before a powerful government and yet, the dominant voice thinks it is in competition with other voices! exclaims Shyam G Menon.
Three takeaways for individuals living in a global society today, where misinformation and disinformation are rife.
The tenure of the incumbent AIIMS director, Dr Randeep Guleria, which was set to end on March 24, was extended by three months.
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