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Defence Minister Rajnath Singh announced transfer of state-developed missile technology to industry, and said India will act against terrorism while seeking no country's territory File Photo Via: @rajnathsingh on X  India will transfer missile technologies developed by its state defence research agency to private companies, allowing them to manufacture conventional missile systems for the first time, the defence minister said on Sunday. The Defence Minister told a defence conclave in New Delhi that qualifying Indian firms would be able to produce the systems, a change he said would improve the armed forces' preparedness and speed up deliveries. The Defence Research and Development Organisation, which has until now both designed and overseen the production of such systems through state-owned firms, would increasingly concentrate on research while industry took on a larger share of manufacturing. The announcement came alongside figures showing a sharp rise in India's arms...

India's Vice President C P Radhakrishnan launched humanitarian programmes at the Mata Amritanandamayi Math and said India's development must carry a human face Image Source: @VPIndia on X Vice-president handed over ₹2 crore in assistance for Nepal flood relief on Sunday at an ashram in southern India, during celebrations marking the 73rd birthday of the Hindu spiritual leader Mata Amritanandamayi Devi. C P Radhakrishnan gave the assistance to Nepal's ambassador to India, Surender Thapa, at the Mata Amritanandamayi Math in Amritapuri, in Kerala's Kollam district. The occasion was Vishwa Seva Dinam, a day of service the organisation observes on the spiritual leader's birthday. Known to her followers as Amma, Mother, Mata Amritanandamayi Devi was born in a fishing village in Kollam in 1953 and is widely referred to as the hugging saint for the embraces she gives to those who come to her. The Math she founded runs hospitals, schools and relief operations in India and ...

✍️ Written by Saket Suman The Indian Express investigation into the Election Commission is a reminder of what print journalism can still do in India, and of the unglamorous machinery that makes it possible Image Source: @IndianExpress on X Look at the dateline first, before you read a word of the story. Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi, Panaji. Four cities under a single byline. Nobody puts four cities on a story unless somebody has been to them, or has spent long enough on the phone with people in them to have earned the right. It is the least dramatic line in the whole piece and it tells you almost everything about how it came to exist. The story itself has been argued about all week. Ritika Chopra's investigation in The Indian Express , published on 23 September, reported that two of the three Election Commissioners had formally objected on record at least 14 times in ten months, four of them on a single day, to decisions taken and orders issue...

Jaishankar told the General Assembly that Bharat's right to self-defence against terrorism 'will be exercised', in a speech that also put the Gulf shipping crisis at the centre of India's case for a reordered world Screengrab of UN address; Via: @sidhant on X India's external affairs minister warned the United Nations General Assembly on Saturday that his country would exercise its right to defend itself against terrorism, and that existing understandings with a neighbour he did not name could be reopened. "Yesterday, a serial practitioner of terrorism misrepresented facts before this Assembly," S Jaishankar told the general debate at the assembly's 81st session in New York. Arguments had been invoked, he said, to normalise terrorism and claim immunity from its consequences. "That will not stand." He did not name Pakistan, whose prime minister, Shehbaz Sharif, had addressed the assembly the previous day. But the reference was unmistakable, ...

  At a 'Bhajan Clubbing' evening in New Delhi, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi joined an audience of young Indians for two hours of devotional songs, in a scene that says something about where the country's oldest practice is finding its newest audience Image Source: @BJP4India on X The stage lights in a central Delhi park on Friday evening did what stage lights everywhere do. They swept the crowd, caught raised hands, and threw a wash of colour over several hundred faces, most of them young. The sound system was built for a concert. The set ran close to two hours. What the crowd was singing, though, was older than the city around it. The songs were bhajans, devotional compositions addressed to Ram, to Krishna, to Mahadev and Parvati, carried on guitars and drums rather than harmonium and manjira, but with the words largely unchanged. Somewhere in the middle of the gathering, not on a dais above it, sat the prime minister. Narendra Modi arrived, probably, unannounced ...

New  Delhi has given itself until the end of 2029 to uproot the drug trade, in a country that sits on the main corridor between the world's two largest opium-producing regions Image Source: @AmitShah on X India's home minister Amit Shah has set a date for the end of his country's drug trade. By 31 December 2029, Shah recently told a gathering of state anti-narcotics chiefs in New Delhi, India will have uprooted it. The pledge is the most ambitious any Indian government has made on narcotics, and it is being made by a country in an unusually exposed position. India lies between the Golden Crescent, the opium belt spanning Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran to its north-west, and the Golden Triangle, where the borders of Myanmar, Laos and Thailand meet to its east. Between them, those two regions have supplied most of the world's illicit opium for half a century. India is the land bridge, and increasingly the market. Shah was speaking at the third national conference of Anti-...

Tributes from the prime minister, union ministers, chief ministers and the opposition mark 94 years since the birth of the man who opened up India's economy and led it with care for a decade Image Source: @RahulGandhi on X Political leaders from across India's divides paid tribute to Manmohan Singh on Saturday, which marks the 94th anniversary of the former prime minister's birth and the second since his death in December 2024. Prime Minister Narendra Modi led the nation in remembering him by stating, "Tributes to our former Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh Ji on his birth anniversary. He spent many years in public life and served the nation with dedication." Union minister Kiren Rijiju said Singh's long years of service and his contribution to public life would always be remembered with respect. Defence minister Rajnath Singh said his contribution to India's progress would endure. Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said his contributions would al...

The men who surround a girl on an empty road believe they are enforcing something that is right and noble. Until that belief is dismantled, the arrests and encounters will keep coming and nothing substantial will change in the state that was once the cradle of civilization. There is an old Sanskrit word for it: kupamanduka , the frog in the well . He has never seen the sea. He does not even know that it exists. The circle of sky above him is, as far as he is concerned, the whole of the sky, and the walls around him are the limits of the world. He is not stupid. He is not even unhappy. He simply has no way of knowing what he is missing, and no reason to suspect there is anything to miss. Representational Image: @HistoryDefined on X Large parts of Bihar are living in that well. Not the whole state, and not all of its people, but enough of them, in enough villages and towns, that the consequences arrive on our screens every few weeks in the form of a recording made by someone who thought...

 The 15-nation Caribbean Community has decided to support India's candidature for a non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council for the 2028-29 term, India's foreign ministry said, in the clearest outcome yet from a week of Global South diplomacy at the UN General Assembly. The decision was conveyed at the India-CARICOM foreign ministers' meeting in New York on 23 September, held on the margins of the assembly's 81st session. India's external affairs minister, S Jaishankar, co-chaired it with Melvin Bouva, Suriname's minister of foreign affairs, international business and cooperation. Jaishankar thanked the group and said India would be a strong voice of the Global South. Image Source: @DrSJaishankar Foreign ministers from Barbados, Dominica, the Bahamas, Guyana, Jamaica, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Suriname, Haiti, St Lucia, St Kitts and Nevis, and Antigua and Barbuda attended, along with Grenada's finance minister, a ...