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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 war, and 1965 and 1971 India-Pakistan war. Mahapatra during his career held many key posts. After his ...

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 Vidyalaya, Mita and I often came back from school together to the Deshpande home. I was already interested i...

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 “The following transfer is ordered with immediate effect: The service of Basant Kumar, JEO, TTD, are withdrawn from Revenue (endowments) with immediate effect and he is directed to report to the government in General Administration Depar...

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 protestors on ground were still appealing to the larger group to maintain peace.” Having been to...

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 Rajpath in central Delhi had ended. But at around 8 am some of the farmers began to remove the barricades ...