NEW DELHI: Questioning the appointment process for chief election commissioner/election commissioners where a panel of PM, a Cabinet minister and the leader of opposition, pick the candidate, Supreme Court on Thursday said that the present system allows the govt to appoint a person of its choice as two out of three member would favour it…
Quote of the day by Banksy (AI-generated image) There are some quotes people read once and immediately move on from. Then some lines stay in the mind for hours because they touch something deeply human and slightly uncomfortable at the same time.This quote by Banksy belongs in the second category.It does not sound dramatic in…
Judging excellence in maternal healthcare is not like judging most things. The numbers, whether around delivery volumes, success rates, bed counts, etc., are the starting point, far from the verdict. When the jury members for the Times Future of Maternity Awards 2026 convened for final evaluation of nominees across 13 categories, the tougher questions were…
For those unfamiliar, there’s a website called Jmail that has repurposed Jeffrey Epstein’s emails into a Gmail format, so it appears that one is actually browsing the late paedophile’s inbox. It is a treasure trove of nonsensical information which showed just how deeply entrenched a former high school teacher with no formal graduation degree had…
NEW DELHI: Do fractured mandates fracture parties? The crack in AIADMK in Tamil Nadu, much like the splits in Shiv Sena in Maharashtra, suggests they often do.In June 2022, Eknath Shinde led a rebellion in Shiv Sena and took away two-thirds of the party’s MLAs, toppling the Maha Vikas Aghadi government. The coup vertically split…
A judge ordered the US to bring back a Colombian woman who was deported to the DRC despite Congo’s refusal to accept the 55-year-old woman. The Donald Trump administration’s third-country deportation, a new policy that they have come up with where a migrant is sent to a third country where they have no connection, received…
BRICS: EAM slams unilateral sanctions, says pressure can’t replace diplomacy (Image credit: ANI) NEW DELHI: The BRICS foreign ministers’ meeting began Thursday with external affairs minister S Jaishankar denouncing “increasing resort’ to unilateral coercive measures and sanctions inconsistent with international law and the UN Charter. Delivering India’s national statement, Jaishankar said such “unjustifiable” measures, which…
High in the Spanish Pyrenees at 2,235 meters, archaeologists made a paradigm-shifting discovery that challenges our view of prehistoric life in the mountains. In the remote Cova 338 cave, experts from the Autonomous University of Barcelona found the remains of an 11-year-old child with primitive metallurgical tools. This site dates back over five millennia and…
Kalyan Banerjee (Image/PTI) NEW DELHI: Former West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday appointed Kalyan Banerjee as the new Chief whip of the Trinamool Congress in Lok Sabha replacing Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar. The announcement was made during an internal meeting of party MPs held at Mamata Banerjee’s residence in Kalighat as the party leadership…
Taiwan emerged as a major flashpoint between China and the United States, with Beijing warning of possible “clashes and even conflicts” if the issue is not handled properly during talks between President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping.While Trump stayed quiet on question about Taiwan after his meeting with Xi, Beijing later confirmed the…