Mumbai City FC marked their first Indian Super League match since the departure of Des Buckingham by defeating Bengaluru FC 4-0 at the Sree Kanteerava Stadium on Friday. Some shake-ups in the playing XI coupled with being firm with their playing style that has reaped them rich rewards lately resulted in the Islanders making a […]

Trinamool Congress leader Mahua Moitra was guilty of “unethical conduct” and contempt of the Lok Sabha as she shared her login user ID and password of the Parliament website with “unauthorised persons”, disturbing national security, said the ethics panel in its report that recommended expelling her from the House, reported The Indian Express. Moitra was […]

In April last year, the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Jodhpur, and Microsoft India announced a collaborative project on remote healthcare. In February, the central health ministry’s telemedicine platform e-Sanjeevani, hosted on the Amazon Web Services’ cloud, reported having served 10 crore patients. Tamil Nadu, meanwhile, has partnered with Google for its Population Health […]

In an interview ahead of the Cannes Film Festival premiere of The Old Oak in May, Ken Loach declared that his 26th feature could well be his last. It was getting increasingly difficult to make films at his advanced age, the 87-year-old British director told The Hollywood Reporter. However, the publication noted that Loach has […]

The dark jacket copy of the 2022 edition of the Hindi book Ek Jogan Zindagi bears an image of two people: a man and a woman sitting next to each other. The light, resembling a renaissance painting, falls on their faces, illuminating their visage, while the military green and maroon of their clothing almost disappear […]

One of the most enduring narratives in the repertoire of the Indian Right is that the country’s secularism is alive because India is a Hindu-majority nation. Had it been otherwise, the argument goes, secular forces would have taken a backseat, which is what has happened in the Muslim-dominant polities elsewhere in the subcontinent. “Those who […]

Sepideh Farsi’s animated film The Siren was conceived nine years ago, when the world was noticeably different. The protests over women’s freedoms in Iran, where Farsi lived until she was 18, hadn’t erupted. The military conflicts between Ukraine and Russia, Azerbaijan and Armenia, and Israel and Palestine were not yet on the horizon. The Siren […]

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On Friday, the Delhi High Court received a challenge from the Popular Front of India, contesting the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) Tribunal’s ruling that upheld the Center’s decision to prohibit the organisation and its affiliates. The bench of Justice Manmohan and Justice Mini Pushkarna requested the PFI counsel modify its petition and reschedule the […]

With an approval rating of 76%, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is the most popular leader in the world, according to a survey conducted by the US-based consulting firm Morning Consult. The next highest ranking leader on the list had an approval rating of less than ten percentage points less than the Indian prime minister. Following […]