Man breaks into Seema Haider’s house in Noida

Police have arrested a man for allegedly breaking into Seema Haider’s house. (Image used for representation) | Photo Credit: SHASHI SHEKHAR KASHYAP Police have arrested a man for allegedly breaking into Seema Haider’s house on Saturday (May 3, 2025), officials said. He claimed that she had done “black magic” on him. Police identified the accused…

BRS alleges scam in cotton procurement

The Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) has alleged that there was a major scam in cotton procurement this season (2024-25) as there was a “huge difference in procurement details being put out by the government”. Addressing a press conference here on Saturday, former MLA Peddi Sudarshan Reddy, and party leaders Errolla Srinivas, Manne Goverdhan Reddy and…

India conducts maiden flight-trials of stratospheric airship platform in Madhya Pradesh

Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) successfully carries out maiden flight-trials of Stratospheric Airship Platform from Sheopur Trial site, in Sheopur on Saturday. | Photo Credit: ANI India on Saturday (May 3, 2025) successfully carried out maiden flight-trials of a stratospheric airship platform which is being developed to boost the military’s surveillance capabilities. Very few…

Modi congratulates Lawrence Wong on re-election

PM Modi with his Singapore counterpart Lawrence Wong. File | Photo Credit: PTI Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday (May 4, 2025) congratulated Lawrence Wong on his resounding victory in the general election in Singapore and said he looks forward to continuing working closely with him. Prime Minister Lawrence Wong and his ruling People’s Action…

The mechanics of crowd control: anticipation, preparation, prevention

In his 1997 book ‘Dominance Without Hegemony’, historian Ranajit Guha recounted how Mahatma Gandhi, “perhaps India’s foremost ideologue of self-discipline”, created an “elaborate” set of rules about how people should behave around him as they travelled the country. To Gandhi, Guha wrote, a haphazard crowd was “unmanageable”, “uncontrollable”, “undisciplined”, and ultimately entailed a “mobocracy”. Gandhi…