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Share of oil from the U.S. and Africa declined India's oil imports up 6.9% in April from March Russian oil imports set to surge to 487,500 bpd - Refinitiv flows NEW DELHI, May 17 (Reuters) - Russia became the fourth-largest oil supplier to India in April, with volumes set to rise further in...

US Seeks to Wean India From Russia Weapons With Arms-Aid Package Potential $500 million deal would put India near Israel, Egypt India is the largest buyer of Russian made military hardware The US is preparing a military aid package for India to deepen security ties and reduce the country’s...

Most parts of northwest India, including Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh, experienced heatwave to severe heatwave conditions yesterday The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has warned of a severe heatwave and issued an orange alert for North-West India...

Independent India has developed a strong appetite for aspects of fascism, including Nazi ideology. Audrey Truschke Sanjay Kanojia / AFP Two years ago, I awoke to the following tweet, “I hope another Hitler comes back and finishes off your people”, accompanied by a picture from 1945 of the...

It underlines their vicious Islamophobia, investment in controlling female sexuality, and a preference for religious segregation. Audrey Truschke A protest against so-called love jihad in Ahmedabad in 2018. | Sam Panthaky/AFP A popular story among the Hindu Right is “love jihad”, in which...

The premodern Sanskrit textual universe and the history of Hinduism—two partially overlapping things—cannot be understood without knowledge of caste, a hereditary system of social hierarchy and oppression. I appreciate this now, but I did not always. I studied premodern Sanskrit texts for more...

The many who condemn Aurangzeb cannot be swayed because they base their ideas on an ideology of India as a Hindu nation, in which Muslim rulers are inherently illegitimate, rather than on documented historical facts. This portrait of the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb mounted on a horse, and ready...

Work on Indian history is increasingly threatened by those who cling to a fabricated past filled with religious conflict and display fierce animosity toward anybody who brings up evidence to the contrary. Work on Indian history is increasingly threatened by those who cling to a fabricated...

For scholars, reverence is not and should not be a requirement for describing or analysing a religious text. A painting of poet Valmiki teaching the 'Ramayana' to Luv and Kush. Credit: Wikimedia Commons Several days ago, I pointed out on Twitter that Valmiki’s Ramayana contains episodes where...

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[Book extract] Patients have become commodities in this marketplace. They can be, and are, routinely exchanged for money. DR KAMAL KUMAR MAHAWAR Your doctor refers you to a diagnostic facility, specialist or hospital for some tests. What would you think? That your health demands it. You’d...

While centralising elements are necessary at times, the problem is that India’s institutions have not evolved along with the country’s growth. More than 70 years after Independence, most of India’s institutions continue to act predominantly as forces of control rather than governance and...

Freedom House and V-Dem are no gold standards of democracy rating. But Jaishankar must know that just pointing out Western hypocrisy won’t cover India’s reality. S Jaishankar has an unenviable task. He has been handed over the job to give a liberal gloss to a government that cannot spell...

Yes, he has zero charisma or influence . Its really foolish to expect a business school topper to do business. To do business you don't even need a business degree.

Some reports suggest that Alankrita Singh is on 7-month London tour. She has been suspended under the All India Service Act 1969. alankrita singh Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh government has suspended UP IPS officer Alankrita Singh for being absent from work without any intimation and on charges of...

The viral video clip of a groom's marriage procession in a backdrop of a village amid full police protection has left many puzzled. Here's the whole story. This J&K CRPF jawan's baraat gets high police security in UP's Bulandshahr India got its independence in 1947, but the seven-and-a-half...

Participating in the Battlegrounds series of virtual discussions hosted by former US national security adviser HR McMaster for Hoover Institution of Stanford University, Jaishankar said on Wednesday that Indians are “extremely confident about our democracy” External affairs minister S...

Bhopal: Waterman calls Sadhguru a 'fraud', Isha Foundation slams 'blatant untruth' Singh also called for an inquiry into the funds given to Vasudev by the previous government Staff Reporter | Updated on: Wednesday, February 19, 2020, 04:38 PM IST BHOPAL: Magsaysay award winner Rajendra Singh...

The magic mantra is ‘donation’. ByPrateek Goyal19 May, 2021 bookmark_add Anish Daolagupu Mindset of this joke Sad Guru Jaggi Vasudev’s Isha Foundation Inc, which is registered in the United States, showed a net income of Rs 56.43 crore in 2018, as per Internal Revenue Service records...

Bollywood actress Jacqueline Fernandez assets seized by the ED (Sunil Khandare) The ED has attached assets worth ₹7 crore of Bollywood actor Jacqueline Fernandez under the anti-money laundering law in connection with its criminal probe against alleged conman Sukesh Chandrashekhar The ED...