Addressing the Khushwant Singh Literary Festival 2025, Aiyar drew sharp contrasts between Rajiv Gandhi's political choices and the policies of the current administration, which he accused of neglecting India's geographic and social peripheries.
Speaking with ANI, he expressed concerns about his daughter's safety in West Bengal and requested that Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee allow her to be taken to Odisha, where they believe she would be safer.
Broader consumption demand in India may take one more quarter to recover fully, even as some sequential improvement is expected in high-frequency economic indicators, according to a report by Axis Securities.
West Bengal Police have arrested three accused in connection with the alleged gangrape of a medical student in Durgapur, Asansol-Durgapur Police Commissionerate said on Sunday.
An accused in the alleged Banthra gangrape case in Lucknow was injured in an encounter with the Uttar Pradesh Police, and another accused was arrested, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Nipun Agrawal said.
Congress MP and party's General Secretary in-charge Communications Jairam Ramesh called Union Home Minister Amit Shah an "indigenously developed Weapon of Mass Disinformation (WMD) and Weapon of Intimidatory Mass Polarisation (WIMP)" over the latter's remark on the Muslim population.