Daily Archives: February 24, 2024

State-sponsored assassination of Russian dissident Navalny

Death strikes Russian dissidents in myriad ways; radioactive poisoning, nerve agent attack, a fatal plunge from an open window or the old-fashioned way of...

Are their demands justfied?

Farmers' Fresh Stir By Dhurjati Mukherjee The conferment of Bharat Ratna to the late M.S. Swaminathan brings to the forefront the subject of farmers and their...

Alarming development

Editor, I am writing to draw attention to a matter of grave concern affecting the communities near the clock tower in Itanagar and the stadium...

Don’t impose Hindi on non-Hindi speakers

Editor, This is to remind the Reserve Bank of India that, as per the 2011 language census, West Bengal, like most southern and northeastern states,...

Probe agencies misused, SC-monitored probe needed: Cong

NEW DELHI, 23 Feb: The Congress on Friday alleged that probe agencies are being "misused" to extort donations for the BJP from private companies,...

Buddhist monks among 100 held in China over dam protests

BEIJING, 23 Feb: Chinese security officials have arrested more than 100 Tibetan Buddhist monks and local people in the southwestern Sichuan province to quell...

HC decision on Meiteis’ ST status evokes contrasting reactions

IMPHAL, 23 Feb: The Manipur High Court's decision to delete a paragraph from its March 2023 order, which urged the state to consider including...