PM Modi greets people on Easter Sunday

Prime Minister Narendra Modi. | Photo Credit: ANI Greeting people on Easter, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday (April 20, 2025) wished that the sacred occasion inspired hope, renewal and compassion in everyone. Mr. Modi said in a post on X, “Wishing everyone a blessed and joyous Easter. This Easter is special because world over,…

‘Janivara’ row: Principal and staff dismissed in Bidar; two guards suspended at Shivamogga

Members of various brahmin organisations staged a demonstration in Mysuru on Saturday condemning the alleged incident in which a few students were asked to remove sacred threads at the CET examination centres in Shivamogga and Bidar. | Photo Credit: SRIRAM M.A. Shivamogga Deputy Commissioner Gurudatta Hegade, after verifying CCTV camera footage at a Common Entrance…

Goyal backs deep-tech dreams from village to city at Bharat Project launch

Union Minister of Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal and Shradha Sharma, Founder and CEO of YourStory at the launch of The Bharat Project Union Minister of Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal called for greater ambition among Indian entrepreneurs while acknowledging that innovation can emerge from anywhere in the country, including smaller cities and rural areas,…

Kancha-Gachibowli forest dispute: What the data says about India’s forest cover

Protests erupted over the Telangana government’s deforestation controversy related to the Kancha-Gachibowli land dispute involving the University of Hyderabad, eventually leading the matter to the Supreme Court. But how does this incident fit into the broader picture of forest loss across India? The data presents a conflicting narrative: according to Global Forest Watch, a private…

Target of May-end for NHPC’s Subansiri dam triggers downstream impact worries in Assam

File photo of the NHPC’s 2,000 MW Lower Subansiri project being constructed in Arunachal Pradesh. | Photo Credit: RITU RAJ KONWAR The NHPC’s plan to start generating electricity from the 2000 megawatt Lower Subansiri Hydroelectric Project (LSHP) has triggered downstream impact worries in Assam, specifically because an independent reservoir management authority recommended by an Environment…

Why NCC continues to be a worthy play on many infrastructure segments

After three-four years of robust growth, the infrastructure space saw traction slow down over the past year or so. A combination of multiple elections — parliamentary and assembly — over the past 12-odd months and the government’s undershooting of infrastructure-related budget spending last fiscal have resulted in slower project awards and delayed payments. However, for…