Valmik Thapar, one of India’s most influential voices in wildlife conservation and a lifelong advocate for tigers, passed away on Saturday morning at his home on Kautilya Marg, New Delhi. He was 73 and had been battling cancer. Over the past five decades, Thapar dedicated his life to protecting India’s wildlife, especially its tigers. He…
Bengaluru police have arrested two men in connection with the murder of a 50-year-old woman in Cottonpet, uncovering a shocking case driven by financial desperation. The suspects, Purandar (42) and Shivappa (35), both electricians from Karnataka’s Bidar district, were taken into custody earlier this week. According to investigators, Purandar is a relative of the victim,…
In a shocking lapse at Faridabad’s district jail, a man accused of repeatedly raping a nine-year-old boy was mistakenly released after jail staff confused him with another inmate of the same name and father’s name. The error involved two inmates named Nitesh, both listing “Ravinder” as their father’s name. One, 27-year-old Nitesh Pandey, was arrested…
In a chilling act of revenge, four young men allegedly gunned down a 42-year-old truck driver and left his wife critically injured at their home in Delhi’s Swaroop Nagar on Wednesday evening. The attack was reportedly triggered by the couple’s objection to their son’s relationship with one of the accused. According to police, the victim’s…
New Delhi: Shashi Tharoor has once again stirred internal tensions within the Congress with remarks seen as supportive of the Modi government’s anti-terror actions. Facing backlash from party colleagues, the senior MP responded curtly, saying critics are free to twist his words—but he has “better things to do.” The row began after Tharoor, currently on…
A 35-year-old man, Babajan, was arrested by Electronics City police for orchestrating a series of daytime thefts in Bengaluru, with his 16-year-old son acting as his accomplice. With no steady income and three wives living separately in Srirangapatna, Anekal, and Chikkaballapura, Babajan allegedly turned to burglary to manage his scattered household. Police say he believed…
Nine centuries ago, while Europe was building cathedrals to segregate nobles from peasants, a revolutionary in Karnataka was tearing down the very foundations of social hierarchy. Basavanna didn’t just challenge the caste system—he set it ablaze with ideas so dangerous that they still threaten entrenched power structures today. The Audacity of One Man Against Millennia…
What if your act of defiance was as simple as picking up salt? Not a rifle, not a sword—just salt. That was the genius of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the man who chose nonviolence as his weapon and shook the foundations of the British Empire with a handful of white crystals. In 1930, India was simmering….
Actor and politician Kamal Haasan is set to make his parliamentary debut as a member of the Rajya Sabha, with backing from the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK). The move comes as part of a strategic alliance between Haasan’s party, Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM), and the DMK, following their collaboration in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections….
New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which returned to power in Delhi after nearly three decades, reported the highest election expenditure among major parties during the 2025 Assembly polls, spending ₹57.65 crore over the course of the campaign. In contrast, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), which ended its decade-long rule, spent a total of…
