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India’s most expensive cinematic production—a mega-budget retelling of the beloved Hindu epic Ramayana—has divided film critics and cultural purists even as it draws packed crowds across theatres. While audiences have celebrated its ambitious visual scale and star-studded lineup, the film faces sharp pushback over colloquial language, creative departures from classical texts, and an over-reliance on visual effects at the expense of emotional depth.
The Bombay High Court has ordered the Election Commission to restore six members of a Goa family whose names were deleted from the voter rolls during a recent revision drive. Justices Valmiki Menezes and Amit Jamsandekar gave officials 10 days to fix the list and criticized an unfair bureaucratic trap where computer rejections forced regular voters into filing forms meant only for first-time electors.
The Democratic Party’s decisive victory in capturing both chambers of the US Congress marks a watershed moment of institutional recalibration against Trumpism. With President Donald Trump framing the midterms as a personal referendum, voters across historically red strongholds—including Texas, Kansas, and the Carolinas—delivered an unmistakable rebuke, restoring constitutional checks and balances and demonstrating democracy’s resilience against extreme polarization.
The 12th BRICS Parliamentary Forum got underway in New Delhi on Monday, bringing together legislative leaders from 11 member nations and 10 partner countries to discuss multilateral cooperation under the theme ‘Fostering Parliaments for People-Centric Development’. Presided over by Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, the two-day forum is structured around four high-level sessions on resilience, innovation, cooperation, and sustainability, alongside focused deliberations on counter-terrorism and parliamentary diplomacy.
Fearing severe disruption during the peak festive shopping season, the Chamber of Trade and Industry has written to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi requesting the INDIA bloc postpone its upcoming Delhi rally until after November 10.
The West Bengal government will terminate extended Durga Puja holidays for state-run hospital staff starting in 2027, replacing the conventional festive break with mandatory duty rosters to maintain uninterrupted emergency medical services. Announcing the decision following reports of unauthorized doctor absenteeism during the recent festive period, State Health Minister Sharadwat Mukhopadhyay emphasized that the health sector operates as a round-the-clock emergency service that cannot shut down during festivals.
Three Christian families in Patlapur village in West Bengal’s Paschim Medinipur district were subjected to a three-day ordeal of mob violence, sexual assault threats, and forced Hindu rituals at a local Durga Puja pandal by individuals reportedly affiliated with the Bajrang Dal. The Chandrakona police have lodged an FIR against 13 named accused on charges including attempt to murder and outraging a woman’s modesty, placing a security watch outside the victims’ homes as civil rights bodies raise alarms over the lack of arrests.
The ITBP chief revealed that ongoing faceoffs with PLA troops along the Arunachal Pradesh border are being met by newly deployed Shaurya commandos as part of a major force modernization drive.
Challenging a Delhi Police peace bond notice after her brief detention during a tricolour march, AISA President Neha Bora argued before the High Court that hoisting the national flag requires no state permission.
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