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War veteran retired Major General BK Mahapatra dies Basant Kumar Mahapatra, who had participated in major battles including the 1971 war against Pakistan, died at a hospital here on Monday. Share Via Email   |  A+A A- By Express News Service BHUBANESWAR:  War veteran Major General (retired) Basant Kumar Mahapatra, who had participated in major battles including the 1971 war against Pakistan, died at a hospital here on Monday. He was 87.  He had also participated in 1962 Indo-China wa...

This study of archaeologist MN Deshpande’s work highlights the integrity and zeal of a true scholar MN Deshpande was someone whose respect for the past was supreme. MN Deshpande. Before anything else, a personal disclaimer, or rather, a claim: I briefly had the pleasure of knowing MN Deshpande. I met him not in the capacity of archaeologist and scholar, but as my school friend Mita’s grandfather, calling him Azoba as she did. As Class XI students at Delhi’s Sardar Patel Vidyalay...

Andhra govt shifts out Tirupati JEO following SEC’s temple visit By IANS|   Updated: 6th February 2021 12:35 am IST Tirupati/Amaravati, Feb 5 : Andhra Pradesh government shunted out the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams’ (TTD) Joint Executive Officer (JEO) P. Basant Kumar, following a visit by the State Election Commissioner (SEC) Nimmagadda Ramesh Kumar. “The following transfer is ordered with immediate effect: The service of Basant Kumar, JEO, TTD, are withdrawn from Revenue (endowments) ...

In this episode, host Snigdha Sharma is joined by Newslaundry correspondents, Nidhi Suresh and Basant Kumar, along with producer Aditya Varrier to discuss their experiences while reporting from the farmers’ tractor rally on Republic Day. Nidhi, Basant, and Aditya begin with a chronological lowdown of how events unfolded on January 26. Nidhi describes the confusion on the ground succinctly when she says, “ We were receiving news on social media that tear gas shelling has started but p...

In pictures: Protesting farmers march into the capital They are bringing a tractor rally into Delhi to protest against the new farm laws. 26 Jan, 2021 As India celebrated its 72nd Republic Day on Tuesday, lakhs of farmers who have been protesting against the Narendra Modi government’s new farm laws along Delhi’s border for nearly two months marched into the national capital. They were expected to start their planned tractor rally at around noon, after the Republic Day parade on Rajpat...

The Big Gun Falls Silent: Madhavsinh Solanki Carried the Secrets of Bofors to his Grave FOLLOW US ON: The last rites of four-time Gujarat chief minister Madhavsinh Solanki, who died on Saturday at the age of 94, were carried out on Sunday. Solanki was external affairs minister in PV Narasimha Raos cabinet, but he quit his post in March 1992 after being accused of trying to sabotage the investigation in the Bofors case and was never part of any other government again. A close associate of Indira...

Newslaundry’s Basant Kumar and Akanksha Kumar. The conversation starts off with some bizarre news stories and quickly moves to Basant’s report on the association of right-wing groups with most cases registered under the new anti-conversion law in Uttar Pradesh. The discussion then shifts to Akanksha’s report on how a local right-wing body disrupted a consensual interfaith marriage in Lucknow. The triad discusses the role of local fringe groups before and after the new law came ...

Reporters Without Orders Ep 146: Farmer protests A reporters’ podcast about what made news and what shouldn’t have. Newslaundry’s Basant Kumar and Anna Priyadarshini. The conversation hits off with the bizarre news stories, from a fisherman finding the world’s biggest blob of whale vomit worth 2.4 million pounds to a wife of a dead Patiala man receiving a ‘sample-collected’ SMS on her husband’s phone. The discussion begins with Anna and Ayush’s report on...

Chemical fertilizer results in low quality vegetables and crops - Sant Kumar Chemical fertilizer results in low quality vegetables and crops - Sant Kumar Friday 11/12/2020 The Founder of Organic Farming in Fiji Sant Kumar has highlighted that the excessive use of chemical fertilizer in the country has resulted in the low quality of vegetables and crops produced by farmers. Speaking at the Organic Pathways for Sustainable Fiji Workshop at SPC Training Centre at Narere, Kumar says most of th...