Alwar, Rajasthan: On April 1 2017, dairy farmer Pehlu Khan was dragged out of the truck in which he was transporting cattle bought from a fair and assaulted by a mob of cow vigilantes on the Jaipur-Delhi highway. The 55-year-old died in hospital. Two years on, the men seen yanking Pehlu Khan by the neck, […]
There was a new prime minister on the Bear Grylls show, talking environment, not development What a relief it was to watch survival instructor Bear Grylls grill the prime minister in the wilds of the Corbett National Park. There was no fawning. No convenient questions. No toadying up. Bear Grylls was respectful all through and […]
Kashmiri leader Shah Faesal, a former IAS officer, was stopped from flying out of the country at Delhi airport and packed off to Srinagar where he has been placed under preventive detention, a friend and a government official confirmed. The friend told The Hindu that when Mr. Faesal reached the immigration desk around 1.30 am […]
Editor’s Note: With Prime Minister Narendra Modi completing 75 days in his second avatar as the nation’s helmsman on 14 August, he spoke extensively to IANS on his priorities going forward and also touched upon various sensitive issues from Jammu and Kashmir, medical reforms, criticality of education and rooting out corruption from within the bureaucracy. In an […]
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Tuesday that Sushma Swaraj as External Affairs Minister transformed her ministry from being bound to protocol to one oriented to “people’s call” and recalled she had urged him to deliver his first UN speech from a prepared text and not speak impromptu. Joined by leaders from all […]