What is SIR and how Election Commission plans to revise voter lists in West Bengal, Tamil Nadu and other poll-bound statesThe Election Commission of India has announced the second phase of a special intensive revision of electoral rolls across 12 states and UTs...
28 Oct, 2025, 01.53 AM IST
Muhammad Yunus sparks anti-India row again, gifts a map showing Northeast India in 'Greater Bangladesh' to Pakistani generalBangladesh's interim leader Muhammad Yunus has caused a stir. He presented a book to a Pakistani general featuring a map that incorrectly s...
27 Oct, 2025, 04.27 PM IST
GDP measurements: Undercounting services & quality in favour of goods & quantity needs a fixCurrent GDP measurements, primarily designed for goods, inadequately capture the value of services, which now dominate economies like the U...
26 Aug, 2025, 11.09 PM IST
No hesitation in wiping out terrorists, wherever they are: Rajnath SighDefence Minister Rajnath Singh asserted that the Modi government will eliminate terrorists, regardless of location, holding sponsors accoun...
02 Jul, 2025, 08.54 PM IST
Gujarat's Alang ship-breaking yard hits all-time low, hopes pinned on global recycling boomMV True Confidence, a doomed vessel from a missile attack, is set for dismantling in Alang, a declining ship-breaking hub facing economic c...
05 Apr, 2025, 11.15 PM IST
‘It’ll take 13 minutes to fix this’: Tehseen Poonawalla responds to controversial ‘Greater Bangladesh’ mapTehseen Poonawalla’s sharp response to a ‘Greater Bangladesh’ map has sparked a fresh wave of political discourse between India and Banglad...
23 Dec, 2024, 02.02 PM IST
Why stop at PoK? We can get moreIndian elections focus on Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir and Akhand Bharat. Some particularly eager voters, or perhaps politicians, may even con...
16 May, 2024, 11.51 PM IST
How rivers shaped the course of Arijit Chatterjee, the first Indian architect to win Steedman Memorial FellowshipAs his childhood fascination enters its fourth decade, Chatterjee has become the first Indian to win the coveted Steedman Memorial Fellowsh...
05 Nov, 2022, 11.58 PM IST
Beware of Congress-AIUDF 'Mahajoth' as it's 'Mahajhoot': ModiSlamming the Congress, Modi, while addressing an election rally at Bihpuria, said the grand old party does not have ideals or able leaders.
24 Mar, 2021, 09.18 PM IST
ETtech Evening Briefing on Feb 15, 2021: Supreme Court notice to Facebook, WhatsApp; India eases mapping policySupreme Court pulls up Facebook and WhatsApp over the latter’s new privacy policy. India liberalises mapping policy in boost to startups. B...
15 Feb, 2021, 09.03 PM IST
View: Political mismatch between governments at Centre, state has cost West Bengal dearOver the past year, there has been controversy over the West Bengal government’s State Aided College Teachers scheme. The scheme regularise...
26 Jul, 2020, 10.34 AM IST
Dhaka witnesses major protest against Nepal PM KP Sharma Oli's Ayodhya commentActivists from Bangladesh’s ‘Jagroto Hindu Samaj’ carried out a human chain prog at Dhaka Press Club to protest Oli's remarks. The Nepalese...
17 Jul, 2020, 07.23 PM IST
China needs to come to table on border dispute: VK SinghChina needs to come to the discussion table to resolve the long-standing border dispute on Arunachal Pradesh, Minister of State (MoS) for E...
12 Sep, 2014, 05.44 PM IST
2014’s Known unknowns: What India and world can expect from 2014To use the Rumsfeldian epistemological glossary, a glance at the international calendar reveals several known unknowns.
01 Jan, 2014, 03.00 AM IST
Chinese company 2nd biggest SIM card supplier in IndiaThe government-controlled Eastcompeace Technology is supplying the phone chips to Reliance Communications, Tata Teleservices, Airtel and Vo...
15 Dec, 2012, 10.41 AM IST
What stops internet access from being cheaperWholesale costs of bandwidth can range from a few hundred dollars per month in NYC & London, to almost $7,000 per month in Mumbai.
19 Aug, 2012, 10.01 AM IST
- Govt to introduce bill to regulate unique ID project
India plans to introduce a law for regulating the ambitious UID programme, confirms Nandan Nilekani. What's the unique ID card? | Nilekani:...
04 May, 2010, 12.26 AM IST