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BERLIN: Größter Hindu-Tempel Deutschlands in Berlin geweiht

Finanziert wurde der Bau nach über 20 Jahren vollständig durch Spenden. Priester übergossen die Turmspitze mit Wasser aus Ganges und Spree.

'Hindu-Muslim agenda can't provide jobs': ‘Cockroach’ chief Abhijeet Dipke lists 5 takeaways day after Delhi protest

Abhijeet Dipke said the country's political discourse needs to shift towards issues that directly affect young people, particularly employment and education.

Indian politics dominated by Hindu-Muslim agenda; joblessness key concern, CJP apolitical: Dipke

Addressing a press conference in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, a day after leading an agitation in Delhi, Mr. Dipke reiterated the demand for Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignation amid the row over the alleged NEET paper leak and CBSE OSM glitches

Market rout: 7 of top-10 valued firms see Rs 1.25 lakh crore erosion

The combined market valuation of seven of the country's top-10 most valued companies declined by Rs 1.25 lakh crore last week.During the same period, the Sensex fell 532.4 points, or 0.71 per cent, while the Nifty slipped 181.05 points, or 0.76 per cent.Among the major laggards, Reliance Industries Limited saw the sharpest erosion, with its market capitalisation falling by Rs 39,718 crore to Rs 17,47,321.40 crore.The stock continued to remain the most valued listed company in the country despite the decline.Tata Consultancy Services also witnessed a significant drop in valuation, losing Rs 20,134.66 crore to settle at Rs 7,95,346.09 crore.Similarly, Bharti Airtel saw its market capitalisation decline by Rs 18,736.04 crore, bringing it down to Rs 10,96,150.49 crore.Infrastructure major Larsen & Toubro also faced pressure, with its valuation slipping Rs 16,880.2 crore to Rs 5,43,956.44 crore.Insurance giant Life Insurance Corporation of India lost Rs 14,610.74 crore, taking its market value down to Rs 5,05,873.32 crore.In the financial sector, Bajaj Finance saw a decline of Rs 9,681.36 crore, while Hindustan Unilever Limited lost Rs 5,909.23 crore in market capitalisation over the week.However, a few large-cap banking stocks provided some support to the market. State Bank of India gained Rs 12,692.09 crore in valuation, rising to Rs 9,02,523.63 crore.ICICI Bank added Rs 4,484.86 crore to its market capitalisation, while HDFC Bank climbed Rs 4,101.47 crore, taking its valuation to Rs 11,50,743.31 crore.Despite the mixed performance, Reliance Industries retained its position as the most valued domestic company, followed by HDFC Bank, Bharti Airtel, ICICI Bank, State Bank of India, Tata Consultancy Services, Bajaj Finance, Larsen & Toubro, LIC and Hindustan Unilever among the top-10 firms by market capitalisation.

Ahead of Market: 10 things that will decide D-Street action on Monday

Indian benchmark indices witnessed a volatile session on Friday, June 5 and closed marginally lower as investors reacted to the RBI monetary policy outcome and continued FII selling. The central bank kept the repo rate unchanged at 5.25% and maintained its neutral policy stance, while raising its inflation forecast and lowering GDP growth projections, which kept market sentiment cautious throughout the session.Here's how analysts read the market pulse:"While the broader index trend remains weak, mixed performance among heavyweight stocks is limiting the pace of decline. In this backdrop, we maintain a cautious stance and prefer a sell-on-rise approach until the Nifty decisively reclaims the 23,700 level. At the same time, traders should focus on stock-specific opportunities across sectors and maintain balanced positions with disciplined overnight risk management," said Ajit Mishra, SVP – Research, Religare Broking.US marketsThe US stock market had its worst day since October on Friday as a sell-off in big technology companies weighed on the broader market and a strong jobs report boosted expectations that the Federal Reserve may be forced to hike interest rates at some point this year.The S&P 500 sank 2.6%, its biggest one-day drop since October 10, when the Trump administration threatened to impose a 100% tariff on imported goods from China. The losses pushed the benchmark index to its first losing week in the last 10. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 1.4%, while the Nasdaq Composite slumped 4.2%.European marketsEuropean shares ended the week lower, as uncertainty over Middle East peace efforts kept investors on edge and technology stocks paused after a blistering two-month rally.The pan-European STOXX 600 index fell 0.3% to 622.66 points and lost 0.5% for the week. Hopes for a breakthrough between the US and Iran appeared limited after the two countries exchanged strikes earlier in the week, while a US-brokered Israel-Lebanon ceasefire also looked fragile after Hezbollah rejected the pact. The resulting spike in energy costs has complicated the inflation outlook. Data this week showed euro zone inflation accelerated in May, prompting markets to price in a 25-basis-point interest rate hike from the European Central Bank.Tech ViewGoing ahead, the index is likely to consolidate in the 23,000-23,550 range in the coming week. Only a move above Tuesday’s high of 23,556 will open the upside towards the 23,750–23,800 resistance zone in the coming sessions.Most active stocks in terms of turnoverBSE (Rs 2,633 crore), ZEE (Rs 2,547 crore), RIL (Rs 2,303 crore), SBI (Rs 2,057 crore), Adani Enterprises (Rs 2,057 crore), HDFC Bank (Rs 1,660 crore) and Himadri Speciality (Rs 1,625 crore) were among the most active stocks on BSE in value terms. Higher activity in a counter in value terms can help identify stocks with the highest trading turnover during the day.Most active stocks in volume termsVodafone Idea (traded shares: 68.55 crore), Ola Electric (23.26 crore), ZEE (23.02 crore), YES Bank (14.9 crore), JP Power (9.09 crore shares) and Suzlon (7.28 crore shares) were among the most actively traded stocks in volume terms on BSE.Stocks showing buying interestZEE, Adani Green, Himadri Speciality, Jyoti CNC, Schneider, Kirloskar Bros and Saregama India were among the stocks that witnessed strong buying interest.52-week highsAmong the stocks that hit their 52-week highs were Himadri Speciality, Acme Solar, Adani Enterprises, Sai Life Science, Laurus Labs and Federal Bank.Stocks seeing selling pressureStocks that witnessed significant selling pressure included Wockhardt, Hindustan Zinc, Netweb Tech, HFCL, Nalco, Tejas and BSE.Sentiment meter favours bullsOut of the 4,399 stocks traded on the BSE on Friday, June 5, 1,993 advanced, 2,212 declined and 194 remained unchanged.

SMOKERS’ CORNER: MYTHS OF THE 'MADMAN'

American President Donald Trump is often described by many as an ‘irrational’ man. Yet, there are those who claim he is instead an over-the-top practitioner of the ‘Madman Theory.’ This theory encapsulates a political concept suggesting that a leader can gain a significant advantage in international negotiations or crises by convincing opponents that he or she is irrational, unstable, or downright ‘crazy’. Former US President Richard Nixon coined the term during his tenure, even though the underlying strategy had been present in modern politics long before Nixon gave it a formal name. Looking to force the communist forces in North Vietnam to sign a peace treaty that would guarantee an honourable exit of American troops from South Vietnam, Nixon told his Chief of Staff, H.R. Haldeman, that he had shaped a Madman Theory for this precise purpose. He explained that he wanted the North Vietnamese to believe he had reached the point where he might do absolutely anything to stop the war, wanting his ministers to intentionally drop hints that he constantly had his hand on the nuclear button. Indeed, it is quite common for hubris to emerge within a regime or in the person leading it. But, according to the noted political scientists John J. Mearsheimer and Sebastian Rosato, hubris is not really about irrationality. They argue that states are fundamentally rational actors that rigorously hypothesise scenarios through sound theories and information, from which they develop their policies and strategies. Nixon’s strategy was entirely rational. States and leaders rarely act without reason, and it’s usually flawed assumptions, rather than irrationality, that drive policy failures and political crises However, Mearsheimer and Rosato place heavy emphasis on the fact that state rationality does not automatically guarantee successful outcomes. Their analysis suggests that policies are typically forged by leaders who act as “homo theoreticus”, relying on structured, evidence-based theories to navigate the immense complexities of international relations. These may work or fail, but their formation is a rational process. In their 2023 book How States Think, Mearsheimer and Rosato focus primarily on the mechanics of foreign policy. But I posit that the heightened interconnectivity characterising the modern digital age necessitates an acknowledgement that internal policies are no longer insulated from global consequences. Illustration by Abro In this context, domestic choices can alter the course of a nation’s foreign affairs as well. During the conflict between Iran and the US, in which Pakistan is an active mediator, Pakistan found itself accused by India and Israel of being a ‘fanatical’ Islamist state that was siding with Iran. The Pakistani government and state recognised the threat these narratives posed to its international standing. To mitigate this, the Pakistani state accelerated the abandonment of its post-1970s ideological narrative, choosing instead to actively promote a new national identity. This new narrative frames Pakistan as a moderate, pragmatic Muslim-majority civilisational state. Here we see how internal policies can impact or be impacted by geopolitics. On the foreign policy front, the Indian and Israeli states hypothesised that, if they could successfully proliferate the perception of a ‘fanatical’ Pakistan, they would create enough doubt in the White House about the wisdom of having Pakistan act as a go-between for the US and a ‘fanatical’ Iran. On the other hand, the Pakistani state hypothesised that, given Israel’s growing reputation as an aggressive state and India’s declining reputation as a secular democracy due to its shift towards a radical Hindutva state, the Pakistani side can now convincingly bolster its new contrasting narrative of being a moderate, dependable nation. The Indian, Israeli and Pakistani policies in this case were all entirely rational. Mearsheimer and Rosato are firmly of the view that scholars who accuse leaders of irrationality often conflate the concept of irrationality with that of failure. Failed policies are routinely blamed on flawed decision-making processes. To Mearsheimer and Rosato, though, this is a mistake, because even failed policies are meticulously shaped through empirical information and theories. A state is considered rational if its actions follow logically from a coherent theory, even if that theory is proven to be incorrect. The theories are constructed through a deliberative process, requiring the careful gathering of information, the assessment of alternatives and the debate of potential outcomes, rather than being a product of mere impulse or emotional reaction. So, does that mean there have never been states/ governments/ leaders that were truly irrational? Mearsheimer and Rosato use the word “non-rational” in this regard, meaning governments, states and leaders who fail to employ a credible strategic theory, relying on wishful thinking instead. Most Western media outlets describe Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s “Supreme Leader” Kim Jong Un as irrational leaders. To Mearsheimer and Rosato, this is a flawed understanding. Putin’s and Kim’s policies are rooted in rational processes, as are those of Chinese leader Xi Jinping. In Mearsheimer’s recent commentaries, he does not see Trump’s decision to plunge into a war with Iran as an irrational move but one based on an ill-informed hypothesis. According to the Lebanese-American academic Fawaz A. Gerges, the decision to attack Iran was built on an illusion heavily fed by Israeli security components, which insisted that Iran’s internal architecture would crumble immediately under direct kinetic pressure. Nothing of the sort happened. Trump’s decision was rational but based on a flawed hypothesis and inaccurate information on the reality of Iran and of contemporary geopolitics. Therefore, one can suggest that Trump isn’t ‘mad’ as such, but simply not very well-informed. What about Imran Khan? Khan was not irrational, nor was he a crank. His decisions, especially to antagonise the military establishment after he was ousted in 2022, were based on a theory that he believed in. The theory suggests that a large-scale political movement scares the military establishment who then immediately submits to its demands. This theory was formed after Khan saw how troops had refused to confront violent protests by the Barelvi Islamist outfit, the Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) in 2016. This theory mutated in 2023, largely under the influence of the then pro-Khan former head of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Lt Gen Faiz Hameed. Allegedly, Hameed believed that since there were pro-Khan officers in the armed forces, targeted riots would trigger a mutiny to force out the then military chief, Gen Asim Munir. This was not a delusion. It was a theory based on information Khan and Hameed found sound, meaning the rational thing to do was to trigger the riot. However, despite the riots, the military’s chain of command remained intact. The mutiny theory failed because it completely ignored the fact that, historically, mutinies have been almost non-existent within the armed forces of Pakistan. The attempt was what Mearsheimer would call a “rational failure.” From then onwards, though, Khan’s strategies became increasingly non-rational, based on an ever-weakening understanding of Pakistani and international politics. The state’s strategy was rational as well: to keep him behind bars and gradually isolate him, leaving his subsequent moves increasingly detached from reality and thus triggering non-rational and even irrational thinking processes in him. Published in Dawn, EOS, June 7th, 2026

Can't abandon my Hindu identity or faith, says Karnataka CM DK Shivakumar

Can't abandon my Hindu identity or faith, says Karnataka CM DK Shivakumar

The Hindu Huddle | Manoj Bajpayee wants an image makeover

You cannot recreate human experience; the real-time performance is always authentic when compared to AI, says the actor in a light-hearted chat with Rohit Khilnani

The Hindu Huddle concludes with evocative musical performance by former diplomat Nirupama Rao

Ms. Rao, who is also the founder of South Asian Symphony Foundation (SASF), took to the stage in accompaniment with Sri Lankan pianist Soundarie David Rodrigo as the former envoy blended her experience of diplomacy with songs to end the event on a musical high

After marathon talks, Congress convinces Ramalinga Reddy to stay in the Karnataka Cabinet

Speaking to The Hindu, the Minister said the party leadership had assured him that the concerns raised by him would be addressed at an appropriate time and made it clear that they wanted him to remain in the Cabinet

Regional parties better placed to respond to people’s needs: Former Speaker

The Hindu Huddle 2026 in Bengaluru

We can’t become second-grade citizens in India due to Centre’s policies: Revanth Reddy

In a conversation at the two-day The Hindu Huddle in Bengaluru, the Chief Minister said southern states would not accept an imbalance in political power distribution.

ZDF-Film „Fleisch“: Aus der Dusche strömt Blut

Der Film „Fleisch“ zeigt auf besondere Weise, wie Arbeiter in der deutschen Fleischindustrie wie Sklaven schuften müssen. Als Konsumenten könnten wir etwas gegen die Ausbeutung tun. Es wäre bitter nötig.

Hundreds join protest led by India's viral 'Cockroach Party'

Hundreds of young students gathered in New Delhi on Saturday for the first street protest by the satirical “Cockroach People’s Party” over alleged irregularities in recent major examinations. Carrying paper cockroach masks and pamphlets, the protesters called for the resignation of Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan who has faced criticism over the irregularities, including question paper leaks and technical glitches. “We want accountability from the government,” Utkarsh Raj, a medical college aspirant, told AFP at the protest site, which was watched closely by police officers in riot gear. “How is it that exam papers get leaked in this country? How is this right?” added Raj, 16. Protesters were led by Abhijeet Dipke, a 30-year-old Boston University graduate who arrived in New Delhi from the United States on Saturday. “The youth of the country will no longer fear anyone, they will fight,” Dipke, a former political communications strategist for the opposition Aam Aadmi Party, told supporters at the rally. “Cockroaches don’t ever fear, they never die either,” said Dipke, as others shouted in unison. Protesters said young people were justifiably angry. “India deserves better administration of such crucial exams by the government,” said 20-year-old Sarthak, who gave only one name. Last month, authorities scrapped the nationwide medical college entrance exam after investigators uncovered a question paper leak. Indian media reported suicides of teenagers following the fiasco over the National Eligibility Entrance Test (NEET), one of the country’s most competitive exams. That came on top of another scandal related to online marking system in tests taken by nearly two million high school students. “Young people have to give these exams and they can’t have a situation where these exam systems have no credibility left,” said Sapan Gyan, 52, who accompanied his sons to the protest. Modi’s government has blocked the movement’s X account in the country, a move the Cockroach Janta Party has challenged in a Delhi court. Senior cabinet minister Kiren Rijiju has accused the group of seeking followers from Pakistan and the “anti-India gang”. The group, which has amassed roughly 22 million Instagram followers since launching in mid-May, is the largest online expression of dissent against the Hindu nationalist Modi’s 12-year-old rule, fuelled by persistently high youth unemployment and recurring leaks of examination papers that threaten to derail the careers of millions of students. Political analysts say the group’s popularity has begun to dent Modi’s image despite his party’s recent victories in key state elections, even as wider frustration grows over rising fuel prices and gas shortages brought by the Middle East war. India has nearly 400 million people aged 15 to 29, and generating non-farm jobs for them remains one of its biggest challenges despite rapid growth. The urban youth jobless rate was nearly 14 per cent in April. Many educated young people are also stuck in low-paid or insecure jobs that do not match their skills, economists say.

Regional parties assert independence, stress national interest at Hindu Huddle 2026

Founder of India's 'Cockroach Party' arrives in New Delhi to protest Modi

The founder of India’s viral Cockroach Janta Party arrived in New Delhi on Saturday to lead a protest against Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government, taking the country’s largest online youth movement to the streets for the first time. Abhijeet Dipke, 30, who has lived in the United States for the past two years, had said his family and friends feared he could be arrested on his return to India. Dozens of police officers gathered near Jantar Mantar in central New Delhi on Saturday, barricading some of the surrounding roads as protesters shouted slogans demanding the resignation of Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan. Modi’s government has blocked the movement’s X account in the country, a move the Cockroach Janta Party has challenged in a Delhi court. Senior cabinet minister Kiren Rijiju has accused the group of seeking followers from arch-enemy Pakistan and the “anti-India gang”. The group, which has amassed roughly 22 million Instagram followers since launching in mid-May, is the largest online expression of dissent against the Hindu nationalist Modi’s 12-year-old rule, fuelled by persistently high youth unemployment and recurring leaks of examination papers that threaten to derail the careers of millions of students. Political analysts say the group’s popularity has begun to dent Modi’s image despite his party’s recent victories in key state elections, even as wider frustration grows over rising fuel prices and gas shortages brought by the Middle East war. Police used loudspeakers to direct people to Saturday’s designated protest site. “This is a peaceful movement for the youth of the nation,” said movement spokesperson Ashutosh Ranka. Dipke is “ready for a long and big day in India’s politics”, Ranka said. India has nearly 400 million people aged 15 to 29, and generating non-farm jobs for them remains one of its biggest challenges despite rapid growth. The urban youth jobless rate was nearly 14 per cent in April. Many educated young people are also stuck in low-paid or insecure jobs that do not match their skills, economists say.

The Hindu Huddle 2026 Day 2 live updates: experts, diplomats, industry leaders all set for discussions

Here are live updates from Day 2 of the event.

The Hindu Huddle amid a ‘world in transition’

At The Hindu Huddle, Karnataka Chief Minister D. K. Shivakumar says Bengaluru is “the biggest talent pool in Asia”, appreciates The Hindu’s editorial integrity and “very straight” pen

Two held for having contact with Pakistani handler

A senior police officer told The Hindu that the suspects were in regular contact with the individual through social media channels.

25 PFI members, leaders charged under UAPA for seeking to establish Islamic Caliphate in India

Delhi court finds prima facie conspiracy to establish Islamic caliphate by 2047; defence cites RSS ‘goal of Hindu Rashtra’