Passengers board an overcrowded train for Prayagraj’s Mahakumbh at the New Delhi railway station on February 15, 2025. At least 18 people were killed and more than a dozen injured in a stampede that broke out that night at the crowded railway station. | Photo Credit: PTI In India, nobody bats an eye when they … Read more
Ranjit Tinaikar, CEO of Ness Digital Engineering | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement While artificial intelligence (AI) has been a buzzword across industries, companies worldwide have yet to harness the full potential, says Ranjit Tinaikar, CEO of Ness Digital Engineering. Speaking to The Hindu during his visit to Mumbai, the New York-based tech leader stressed that … Read more
The popular YouTube show ‘India’s Got Latent’ has sparked controversy after criminal proceedings were initiated against its creators and participants over allegedly obscene remarks in one of its episodes. On February 18, 2025, the Supreme Court granted interim protection from arrest to podcaster Ranveer Allahbadia, one of the participants named in the FIRs. This has … Read more
Attention has been drawn by the Canadian Trade Commissioner in India to the question of the locomotives used there, and he appears to hold out some hope that Canada may have some chances of supplying a proportion of them to the Indian Railways, we are told by a Pioneer correspondent. He says that engineers in … Read more
New Delhi, Feb. 20: There is no increase in the passenger fares in the Railway Budget proposals for 1975-76 presented to Parliament here this evening by the Railway Minister, Mr. Kamalapati Tripathi. However, the Railway Minister announced proposals for “minor rationalisation” in the freight rates on certain commodities which would yield Rs. 39 crores. This … Read more
“Why me, Ma?” Aarav, an 18-year-old from Mumbai, asked when he was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma in 2018. His dream of becoming an investment banker had shattered with the diagnosis. But he didn’t just survive – he thrived. I heard him speak at an event organised by a leading cancer hospital in Mumbai for International … Read more
The popular YouTube show ‘India’s Got Latent’ has sparked controversy after criminal proceedings were initiated against its creators and participants over allegedly obscene remarks in one of its episodes. On February 18, 2025, the Supreme Court granted interim protection from arrest to podcaster Ranveer Allahbadia, one of the participants named in the FIRs. This has … Read more
“Mujhe garv hai ki mai Chamar hu (I am proud to be a Chamar),” said Bindeshwar Ram, a Vikas Mitra and resident of Bihar’s Gaya district, at an event in Patna to commemorate the 647th birth anniversary of Sant Shiromani Ravidas, a 14th-century saint from the Chamar (cobbler) caste associated with the Bhakti movement and considered … Read more
A new power occupies the throne in Delhi. On February 20, Rekha Gupta was sworn in as Delhi’s new Chief Minister, ushering in a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government in Delhi after a 26-year long hiatus. She succeeds Atishi Marlena, who in turn was tapped to be a temporary replacement for AAP party supremo Arvind … Read more
Delhi’s new Chief Minister That Rekha Gupta, a first-time MLA, has become the Chief Minister of Delhi, ‘defying all odds’ if I may add, needs comment. The so-called unanimous “selection” of the leader of BJP’s Delhi legislature party, that took almost two weeks, smacks of the Congress’s culture. There was hectic lobbying by the over … Read more