Kolkata: “Joy Maa Kali” —Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s letter sent out to Bengal voters ahead of assembly polls begins with this greeting, marking a deliberate shift in BJP’s political messaging as the party attempts to shed its “outsider” tag in the state.Until recently, BJP’s Bengal campaigns maintained “Jai Shree Ram” chants popular in northern and…
Mumbai: As the budget session gets underway without a leader of the opposition (LoP) in both Houses for the first time in many years, Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut on Sunday said MVA must move a no-confidence motion against assembly Speaker Rahul Narwekar. He alleged that the assembly is being run in an arbitrary…
sitar virtuoso Shujaat Husain Khan and flautist Rakesh Chaurasia transformed the Bharat Mandapam auditorium into an intimate mehfil for the finale of their Strings and Wind tour. Breath met strings and spontaneity met soul as sitar virtuoso Shujaat Husain Khan and flautist Rakesh Chaurasia transformed the Bharat Mandapam auditorium into an intimate mehfil for the…
CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu has a total of 5,67,07,380 electors — 28,960,838 women and 27,738,925 men, according to the final electoral roll of the Special Intensive Revision 2026 released on Monday.Chief Electoral Officer of Tamil Nadu, Archana Patnaik, released the final electoral roll.Post the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), the state saw 97.37 lakh voter deletions, with…
PATNA: An IG-rank officer from Bihar was arrested on Monday by Andhra Pradesh Police in connection with a five-year-old case of alleged custodial torture of a senior Telugu Desam Party leader.Currently serving as IG of Fire and Homeguards, Sunil Kumar Naik, a 2005-batch IPS officer, who had previously served in Andhra Pradesh on an inter-cadre…
Bokaro: A 62-year-old man was found lying in a pool of blood in the Co-operative Colony under City police station limits late on Saturday night.The injured was identified as Ashokan A P, a resident of the colony and native of Kerala. Police shifted him to Bokaro General Hospital (BGH), where he is currently undergoing treatment.Doctors…
Ranchi: The Railway Protection Force (RPF) has arrested a man with 14 kg of marijuana valued at Rs 7 lakh during an inspection at Hatia railway station in Ranchi city on Saturday, police said on Sunday.The RPF said that the accused was identified as Sandip Kumar (18), a native of Kaimur district in Bihar.Following a…
NEW DELHI: Leader of opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Monday met Uttarakhand’s Kotdwar-based gym owner Deepak Kumar, or “Mohammad Deepak,” who confronted Bajrang Dal members allegedly harassing an elderly Muslim shopkeeper over the use of ‘Baba’ — which the right-wing group claimed was a Hindu term — in his shop name.In a…
KOLKATA: A 20-year-old woman was allegedly forced into a car by a friend, molested, assaulted, and then kicked out of the moving vehicle on Diamond Harbour Road in Behala on Saturday night.The 18-year-old friend initially fled the spot after throwing the woman out but was intercepted by a team of cops who chased the car…
Mumbai: A major narcotics haul of charas worth around Rs 14 crore was detected at Mumbai’s Bandra Terminus after an unclaimed bag was found aboard the Awadh Express early Sunday morning, officials said. The train arrived at the platform at 4.20 am, and a heavy black bag was found by officials in one of the…
