The Assam-Mizoram police clash was the first major test for Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma after he took over the reins of the state in May this year
The absence of a robust regional cooperation mechanism after the SAARC became dormant has provided space to China to expand its influence in the region.
The world watched with awe the suborbital flight of Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo Unity by British business magnate Richard Branson and his team on July 11, 2021. A few days later, Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket took Amazon founder and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos and his small team just past the edge of space.
Heralded as the birth of Ne...
For Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa, life, or rather politics, has come a full circle, having led the BJP from the scratch to the top in the state, and now set to take a bow.
Fifty-year-old Th. Paone is as unassuming as the town she made her operational base.
Lahorijan, a one-street settlement squeezed between the National Highway 129 and the railway corridor that connects western parts of Assam with its eastern flank via Dimapur in Nagaland does not even qualify to be called a town.
It would have remained just a ...
The Centre’s move to dilute the existing powers of Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) or Censor Board through the draft Cinematograph Bill has triggered a lot of commotion in the film industry.
Dalits and Muslims are centrepieces in Uttar Pradesh crucible. How their interests converge or diverge could decide not only the future of those in power in Lucknow but also in Delhi.
Most films on Sri Lankan Tamils have fallen into the stereotyping trap. It is against this backdrop that Methagu, made by debutant director T Kittu on LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran, assumes special significance.
Women are better suited for mountaineering physiologically due to their greater natural endurance, and there is no stopping them from scaling the Mount Everest.
A series of tweets from Mayawati on June 27, in which she asserted that the BSP would go alone in 2022 assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh, has raised eyebrows in the political circles in the state.
Of course, earlier too, BSP was known for shunning pre-poll alliances on the ground that while BSP votes were transferred to candidates of other parties...
A hub of political and economic discussions and hotter debates, a second home for journalists, a classroom for students and a paradise for artists, that is what Indian Coffee House is.
The quintessential Darshini fast food eatery, found in every nook and corner of Bengaluru, is fast losing the plot amid the Covid-19 pandemic as business fails.
Venus, earth's closest neighbour, although very hot, has aroused the curiosity of global spacefarers, perhaps to explore future possibilities of life on the planet.
At a time when the 85-year old Kannada cinema is still struggling for survival because of its limited market and a fast-changing business centric-entertainment scenario, its sibling Tulu cinema has crossed its 50-year mark.
On the lines of other film industries, Tulu cinema is also currently hit by the closure of screens and restriction of shoot...
The widespread knock-on effects of the chip shortage have highlighted how semiconductors have become a foundational technology for the functioning of the modern world.
Paresh Barua, the militant leader, who was a first-class soccer goalkeeper before taking up arms forming the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) in 1979, is known for being acrobatic with his words.
