Varanasi

Hinduphobia: Doniger and her sins of omission are legendary

Bhumika Arora - January 29, 2021

(HInduphobia in academia is the work of a few Indian and Western scholars which has spawned an industry. Here we reproduce an insight from...

Tricksters put Modi’s office in Varanasi on sale for Rs 7.5 crores

Newsbred Staff - December 19, 2020

Call it daredevilry, or call it absolutely foolish, four persons put Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Varanasi office online for sale on Olx. After taking...

Modi tears into fear-mongers: ‘These are same people who cheated farmers for years together’

Newsbred Staff - November 30, 2020

Prime Minister Narendra Modi sought to assuage the farmers protesting against the agrarian reform laws his government passed some time ago. Modi said these...

‘DefCol’: What’s in a name? Well, a lot if New India matters to you

Veeresh Malik - November 21, 2020

Sometime in August 2020, I placed a simple Public Grievance online with the Ministry of Home Affairs, seeking a change in the name of...

Street food vendors now go online: A Govt-Swiggy initiative

Bhumika Arora - October 6, 2020

As a part of Prime Minister Street Vendor’s AtmaNirbhar Nidhi (SVANidhi) Scheme, the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs has joined hands with Swiggy,...

Kovind and the naysayers on Bhoomi Pujan: Should we talk of `castes’ amongst Muslims?

Veeresh Malik - August 10, 2020

Seafarers from my era led interesting lives, in as much as whilst our friends were just about finishing school, we were already with a...

Vinayak Damodar Savarkar: Justice at last

Newsbred Staff - October 18, 2019

(There is much heartburn on Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) putting forth its resolve to grant much-maligned Veer Savarkar with Bharat Ratna in the near...

India runs on Railways; so please be mindful Ms. Sonia Gandhi

Ashish Shukla - July 17, 2019

Railways was in news for different reasons last week. It wasn’t rail-budget (that the NDA government did away with in 2017 after 92 years);...

Modi calls out Indian Communists and here’s why

Ashish Shukla - January 16, 2019

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that “Indian Communists do not respect India’s history, culture or spirituality,” while condemning the “most shameful” behavior of Pinaryi Vijayan’s...

MSM Fake News Monitor: Times of India on Taj Mahal

Ashish Shukla - October 3, 2017

(Facebook has set out 10 tools to check Fake News. A few give-aways are headlines, source, evidence and photos. Times of India in today's edition has...

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