Delhi court permits police to withdraw sedition FIR against ex-JNU student Shehla Rashid
A Delhi court on Thursday allowed the police to close a sedition case from 2019 against former Jawaharlal Nehru University student Shehla Rashid, Bar and Bench reported. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Anuj Kumar Singh of the Patiala House court allowed an application by the Delhi Police seeking to close the case. The application said that Lieutenant…
Apply for 51 Executive posts till March 21, details here
Summarize this content to 100 words: The India Post Payments Bank (IPPB) Limited has invited online applications from eligible candidates for the recruitment of Circle Based Executives on a Contract Basis. Eligible candidates can apply for the posts on the official website ippbonline.com till March 21, 2025. The recruitment drive aims to fill 51 vacancies….
Literary critic Kirtinath Kurtkoti’s essays exhibit his capacious vision
Summarize this content to 100 words: India is undergoing a great age of translation – and, hopefully, one that will only get stronger with every decade. One of the strengths of the current age is the translation not only of literary texts, but also of texts with a broader cultural significance. An excellent example is…
Hindi memoir: An excerpt from ‘Chandan Kiwad’, by musician Malini Awasthi
Summarize this content to 100 words: मालिनी अवस्थी के किताब चन्दन किवाड़ का एक अंश, वाणी प्रकाशन द्वारा प्रकाशित। निमिया के डाढ़ मईया लावेली झुलुहवा हो की झूली रे झूली नानिमिया के डाढ़ मईया लावेली झुलुहवा हो की झूली रे झूली नाहो की झूली रे झूली नकी मईया मोरी गावेली गीतियाँ हो की झूली रे…
Five years on, has India forgotten the victims of the Delhi riots?
Summarize this content to 100 words: On February 23, 2020, Bharatiya Janata Party leader Kapil Mishra delivered an ultimatum against the crowds protesting against the Citizenship Amendment Act: if the police did not remove them, he and his supporters would take the law into their own hands and evict them. Without hours of this violent…
47 workers rescued, eight still feared trapped after Chamoli avalanche
Summarize this content to 100 words: Forty-seven workers have been rescued and eight remain missing after an avalanche in Uttarakhand’s Chamoli district on Friday, ANI quoted officials as saying on Saturday. The avalanche struck between Mana village and Mana Pass on Friday morning, the India Today reported. The workers at a Border Roads Organisation project…
A fraught minerals deal with vague US commitments
Summarize this content to 100 words: The visit of Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky to the White House has not gone to plan – at least not to his plan. There were extraordinary scenes as a press conference on Friday night between Zelensky and Trump descended into acrimony, with the US president loudly berating his opposite…
Business-friendly is not always good for the economy or society
Summarize this content to 100 words: The call for deregulation is buzzing in the air again. At the Global Business Summit 2025 in mid-February, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the formation of a Deregulation Commission to eliminate hundreds of compliances and further streamline regulatory processes. He noted that the Goods and Services Tax regime introduced…
In tense meeting, Donald Trump accuses Ukraine’s Zelenskyy of ‘gambling with World War Three’
Summarize this content to 100 words: United States President Donald Trump on Friday accused his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy of “gambling with World War III” during a public confrontation at the White House. Trump told Zelenskyy to come back for talks “when he is ready for peace”. The tense meeting led to the collapse of…
Banu Mushtaq’s International Booker Prize-longlisted book is charged by women’s anger
Summarize this content to 100 words: Kannada writer Banu Mushtaq’s book of short stories, translated by Deepa Bhasthi, has been longlisted for this year’s International Booker Prize. A first for both, it is especially exciting since this is Mushtaq’s maiden appearance in English translation. Bhasthi has previously translated a collection of short stories by Kodagina…
