There is a question I keep returning to as someone young in politics: what is power actually for? In April 1950, a forty-eight-year-old minister in independent India’s first Cabinet answered it in the hardest way a person can. He resigned. No scandal had cornered him. No party had pushed him out. He had simply decided…
The disruption has caused significant hardship for residents, who are already struggling with the civic body’s existing alternate-day water supply schedule Pune: Water supply to most areas in Pimpri Chinchwad was disrupted on Tuesday following a major power failure at the Ravet pumping station, the city’s primary water source.According to the Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation’s…
Panaji: The Goa Green Brigade has urged the Panaji range forest office to stop the “clandestine butchering” of heritage roadside trees and adopt a scientific conservation policy, while warning of legal action if scheduled tree work continues.Activists have also sought a halt to the Corporation of the City of Panaji’s plan to trim or fell…
Image Credit: Journal of Lost Species Some discoveries happen the moment a specimen is collected. Others take years. In this case, it took nearly two decades.A tiny deep-reef fish brought up from the waters off South Australia in 2006 spent nearly two decades in a museum collection after being mistaken for a known species. According…
Ahmedabad: A team of the fire department, entrusted with carrying out rescue operations across the city, had to seek assistance from its own department after a rescue van accidentally got stuck in a pit excavated for footpath construction work.A video of the incident went viral, showing a rescue van of the Ahmedabad Fire and Emergency…
The French model first gained worldwide attention after being dubbed the “most beautiful girl in the world” at the age of six.Image credit (Instagram) Thylane Blondeau has married her longtime partner Ben Attal in a picturesque Paris ceremony. The 25-year-old French model, twice crowned the “most beautiful girl in the world,” officially became Mrs Attal…
Dale Carnegie (Image: Wikipedia) Most people brace themselves for criticism and relax around praise, treating the two as opposites, one dangerous and one safe. Dale Carnegie flipped that instinct on its head. “Don’t be afraid of enemies who attack you,” he wrote. “Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.” Coming from a man who…
Pak warns India over Indus Waters Treaty Pakistan’s climate change minister Musadik Malik has issued a fresh warning to India over the suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty, saying, “It has already been declared that whoever touches our water, their hands would be cut off.” His remarks come as New Delhi continues to keep the…
US and Iran warn each other of impending escalations US President Donald Trump said the United States will “probably” carry out more strikes on Iran later Wednesday, warning Washington was prepared to hit even deeper and could take over Kharg Island if needed.“They are behaving very badly, as they have for 47 years,” Trump told…
New Delhi: A truck filled with stones and other construction material, which was parked near Jantar Mantar hours before the Cockroach Janta Party-led Chalo Sansad march on July 20, had been in police custody since it was involved in an accident on July 16.Delhi Police issued a clarification Tuesday after a news portal questioned the…
