Speaking Bengali in Kolkata’s civic body meetings is now no longer a choice, but a rule. The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has made it mandatory for all councillors to use Bengali during monthly meetings and question sessions.
The BJP flayed Rahul Gandhi on Thursday for “echoing” US President Donald Trump’s “dead economy” jibe at India, calling it a “shameful” insult to the aspirations, achievements and well-being of the people of the country as it asked the Congress leader why he “repeats” foreign propaganda that undermines the country.
A letter penned in 1971 by then prime minister Indira Gandhi to US President Richard Nixon has surfaced, in which she is asking him to “persuade Pakistan” to give up its “aggressive activities” against India two days after it attacked, triggering the Indo-Pakistan war that ended in the creation of Bangladesh.
As the towering stone temple of Rajendra Chola I loomed behind him, Prime Minister Narendra Modi reflected on a lesser-known legacy of the Chola dynasty—not just its architecture or military conquests, but its vibrant tradition of grassroots democracy.
In a major operation on Monday, security forces killed three militants hiding in the Dachigam forest, just outside Srinagar. The encounter, part of “Operation Mahadev”, took place after the Army received inputs about possible terrorist activity in the area.
A highly emotional mission to symbolically name a hitherto unnamed Himalayan peak in honour of the RG Kar doctor who was raped and killed in Kolkata last year is about to begin with a multidisciplinary team of mountaineers, scientists, and medical professionals travelling to the remote Tso-Moriri region in Ladakh’s Leh district.
Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday (July 29, 2025) alleged that the ruling NDA lacked political will to carry out Operation Sindoor, and the entire exercise was carried out only to protect the image of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The Supreme Court on Monday (July 28, 2025) pushed harder for the Election Commission of India (ECI) to accept Aadhaar and the Electors Photo Identity Card (EPIC) as identity documents in the Bihar Special Intensive Revision (SIR), saying “mass inclusion” and not “en masse exclusion” should be the outcome of the exercise in the poll-bound State.
