High-level panel set up to examine causes for Air India plane crash

High-level panel set up to examine causes for Air India plane crash

New Delhi: A high-level multi-disciplinary committee, headed by the Union home secretary, will examine the causes that led to the Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad, and also suggest comprehensive guidelines to prevent such incidents in the future. The civil...
Abhijit Kothari’s much-needed translation of the first Gujarati autobiography

Abhijit Kothari’s much-needed translation of the first Gujarati autobiography

Narmadashankar Dave, or more popularly, Narmad, wrote the first autobiography in Gujarati titled Mari Hakikat in 1866 when he was 33. Narmad’s book broke new ground in Gujarati, providing a template for self-writing as well as illuminating the upper-caste, male...
Six new novels (including one by Stephen King) to read this summer

Six new novels (including one by Stephen King) to read this summer

All information sourced from publishers.Among Friends, Hal Ebbott Amos and Emerson have been friends for more than thirty years. Despite vastly different backgrounds, the two now form an enviable portrait of middle age: their wives are close, their teenage daughters...
A renewed open letter against the return of fascism

A renewed open letter against the return of fascism

On May 1, 1925, with Mussolini already in power, a group of Italian intellectuals publicly denounced Mussolini’s fascist regime in an open letter.The signatories – scientists, philosophers, writers, and artists – took a stand in support of the essential tenets...
Islamist extremism is a risky gamble that political parties have banked on

Islamist extremism is a risky gamble that political parties have banked on

In medicine, certain diseases are called self-limiting. They burn out because they consume their own fuel. The pathogen spreads, triggers the body’s defenses and is ultimately purged by the very symptoms it provokes.Rotavirus diarrhoea is a textbook example. The virus...
Pakistan-born woman booked in UP for holding Indian documents without citizenship

Pakistan-born woman booked in UP for holding Indian documents without citizenship

Bareilly: A 64-year-old Pakistan-born woman claiming to have lived in India for over six decades has been booked in Uttar Pradesh’s Bareilly under a drive to identify undocumented foreign nationals, police said on Friday. Officials said the woman was found...
India abstains on UNGA resolution criticising Israel

India abstains on UNGA resolution criticising Israel

United Nations: India has abstained again on a General Assembly resolution critical of Israel, saying that the efforts should be focused on bringing the two sides in the Gaza conflict closer to find a solution based on dialogue and diplomacy....
KidZania’s Air India-themed ad stirs controversy after Ahmedabad tragedy

KidZania’s Air India-themed ad stirs controversy after Ahmedabad tragedy

Hyderabad: A KidZania advert on the front page of the Mid-Day newspaper on June 12 raised the eyebrows of social media users for bearing an uncanny resemblance to the AI Flight 171 that crashed minutes after takeoff in Ahmedabad on...
All oil tanks of sunken ship plugged, no evidence of leakage: DGS

All oil tanks of sunken ship plugged, no evidence of leakage: DGS

Kochi: The Directorate General of Shipping (DGS) on Friday said that capping and plugging of all identified fuel oil tanks of the Liberian-flagged ship which sank off the Kerala coast last month, has been completed and there is no evidence...
India has adequate energy supplies for coming months: Hardeep Puri

India has adequate energy supplies for coming months: Hardeep Puri

New Delhi: Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Friday assured that the country has adequate supplies of petroleum products such as petrol, diesel, jet fuel, and LPG for the coming months. “Held a periodic review with Secretary,...
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