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Painted blue and yellow, private buses in Kolkata are often seen racing down the city thoroughfares even as the commuters inside the vehicles send up silent prayers while trying to keep themselves somehow perched on the edges of their seats. These buses are seldom seen as identification markers of the city as trams or yellow taxies.
A very unsettling debate that concerns the whole West Bengal has been stirred by a fresh disclosure of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI). Data to the state Election Commission reveal that nearly 34 Lakh (3.4 million) Aadhaar card holders in the state have been marked as deceased. Just the sheer magnitude of the figure has been enough to make people stand and stare. As a matter of fact, the public outrage mainly revolves around the date of the occurrence, i.e. the day when revising the voter list in the state is in full swing.
Winning the mayoral election of New York, Zohran Mamdani has charted a remarkable course. As the first Muslim and South Asian mayor, he will be the first immigrant to ascend the City Hall in nearly 50 years.
The Supreme Court today issued notices to the Centre and all state governments on the issue of imposition of timelines on Governors and the President to act on Bills in the absence of a constitutionally-prescribed time limit.
The government has agreed to a 16-hour-long debate in Parliament on the Pahalgam terror attack and Operation Sindoor, but next week, after Prime Minister Narendra Modi returns from an overseas visit.
Close circuit television footage at a leading hospital in Patna revealed some men walking in gun in hand and leaving after shooting a convicted criminal on parole. This is the latest incident of violence in Bihar where elections are round the corner and is a reminder to the voters that enough is enough.
In a major decision, the Delhi High Court has said that secretly recorded conversations between a husband and wife can be used as evidence in divorce cases. The court ruled that if one spouse records a conversation to prove cruelty or mistreatment, it does not break privacy laws.
The Indian government has issued a stern directive to all Union Ministers to clear files pending in their offices for over two months.
The 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, will soon be celebrating his 90th birthday. The attention however is on something else. There has been talks of the Dalai Lama potentially announcing his successor, a decision of profound spiritual and geopolitical importance, before he celebrates.
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