HYDERABAD: I love museums for how they let you peek into the past — like a time machine but with air-conditioning. He was just the Nizam’s finance minister — basically, Nirmala Sitharaman with a shopping problem. Royalty gets palaces, and peasants get potatoes — if they’re lucky. The argument of whether Nizam’s rule was a boon or bane depends entirely …
“It is like our lives, deprived and desolate,” mumbles K. Ashiq, a mango farmer in his mid-20s at Muthalamada in Palakkad district, Kerala, as he runs his fingers through a bunch of fallen mango buds in his orchard. “It is this early harvesting that makes Muthalamada mangoes much in demand in the North,” says J.M. According to the Mango Farmers …
The protest by the Maratha community for reservation took a violent turn on Monday after protesters set the houses and offices of MLAs across parties on fire in Beed and Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar districts. Hemant Patil and Hemat Godse, two MPs from Eknath Shinde’s party, announced their resignation while BJP MLA Laxman Pawar and Congress MLA Suresh Warpudkare offered to …
Hyderabad: Azmet Jah, the eldest son of the late Nizam VIII Mukarram Jah, took charge as the ninth head of the Asaf Jahi family on Friday in a simple ceremony, the Nizam’s office said in a letter on Saturday. The event ended public speculation and hope of a grand coronation ceremony for Mir Mohammed Azmet Ali Khan Azmet Jah. The …
The Calcutta High Court today directed the Police Commissioner of Bidhannagar Police Commissionerate to be present at the Netaji Subhash Chandra Airport, Kolkata on Thursday evening so that Minister of State for School Education Paresh Chandra Adhikari can be directly taken from the airport to the CBI office at Nizam Palace in Kolkata for questioning over the alleged illegal appointment …