12+ min ago   (422+ words) Published - September 13, 2026 10:02 am IST - Kolkata Kolkata’s Bonedi Bari (aristocratic households) Durga Pujas, which have organised the festival for hundreds of years, have decided to stick to their original “non-vegetarian” traditions, rejecting Dhirendra Shastri or self-styled godman Bageshwar Baba’s “vegetarian only…...

48+ min ago   (496+ words) Published - September 13, 2026 09:26 am IST - New Delhi BRICS leaders have voiced serious concern over "deliberate attacks" on civilian infrastructure and peaceful nuclear facilities under full safeguards of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), underlining that nuclear safety must always be upheld,…...

1+ hour, 18+ min ago   (865+ words) The first day of the 18th BRICS Summit being held in New Delhi on Saturday (September 12, 2026) saw the grouping arrive at a crucial consensus, as negotiators worked until the last minute to bring Iran and the United Arab Emirates on the…...

1+ hour, 54+ min ago   (252+ words) Updated - September 13, 2026 08:20 am IST The works might differ in appearance, but both reflect Sooriyamoorthy’s preference for materials that demand time, precision and physical effort. “People ask me why I am using metal wire when it is so time-consuming,” he says....

1+ hour, 55+ min ago   (563+ words) Updated - September 13, 2026 08:19 am IST Two recent anthologies titled 5 Stories, in Konkani and Kannada, are part of a series edited by that relentlessly formidable champion of Indian stories in English translation — Mini Krishnan. She draws up an ace with these two…...

1+ hour, 56+ min ago   (469+ words) Updated - September 13, 2026 08:18 am IST - Kolkata Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Saturday (September 12, 2026) said that had West Bengal not been created as a separate homeland for Bengali Hindus, people of the State would have suffered the same of of Chinmoy Das…...

2+ hour, 32+ min ago   (181+ words) Updated - September 13, 2026 07:42 am IST Delhi Police issued fresh traffic advisories for Sunday (September 13, 2026), as the 18th BRICS Summit heads into its final day. Also read | ‘From rule-takers to rule-shapers’: PM Modi’s big pitch to BRICS leaders in welcome address India forged…...

3+ hour, 6+ min ago   (323+ words) Updated - September 13, 2026 07:08 am IST - Bengaluru The crackdown comes against the backdrop of Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar’s surprise visit to the APMC Yard in Yeshwantpur, recently, where officials found 19 children working on the premises. In a Statewide crackdown on child labour on…...

3+ hour, 14+ min ago   (405+ words) Published - September 13, 2026 07:00 am IST - PATHANAMTHITTA By the time Vatican City in Vakayar, a village near Konni, begins to stir each morning, D. Sudheesh Kumar has usually completed his first task of the day. Armed with a broom, the 61-year-old steps out…...

4+ hour, 14+ min ago   (18+ words) Kanthapuram asserts that religious scholars have the right to speak on faith, emphasizing their role in community development....