NEW DELHI: Government continues to be in touch with the Iranian authorities for the safety of Indian ships for their safe exit through the Strait of Hormuz, external affairs ministry said Monday, while emphasising that New Delhi attaches very high importance to the safety and security of mariners and transit through the Strait should be…
New Delhi/Kolkata: A legal representative of I-PAC director Rishi Raj Singh appeared before the ED in Delhi on Monday to help the agency extract data from electronic gadgets seized during recent raids, officials said.Founded in 2015, I-PAC provides political consultancy to several parties, including the parties in office in two poll-bound states: TMC in Bengal…
Mumbai: Two students from Maharashtra were among the 26 top scorers in the country in the JEE (Main) results announced on Monday. Seventeen-year-old Madhav Viradiya, who is originally from Vadodara but studied in Mumbai for the past two years, and Siddharth Athaley, 18, from Pune both secured a perfect 100 percentile across the two JEE…
New Delhi: A 35-year-old woman was stabbed to death and her husband injured following an alleged dispute over a mobile phone in northwest Delhi’s Adarsh Nagar area on Tuesday night. No arrests have been made so far.The deceased has been identified as Rakhi. Her husband, Ashu, 30, is undergoing treatment. The couple lived in Azadpur…
CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu chief minister MK Stalin on Tuesday criticised the Centre over the proposed delimitation exercise, describing it as an attempt to “punish” progressive states like Tamil Nadu.In a video message posted on X, he said the move threatens the state’s development model, linking it to its success in population control and industrial growth.The…
On Monday, a scorching heatwave struck Buxar’s Kanehari High School, resulting in ten students fainting—a troubling repeat of a similar incident just days prior. In response, school authorities rushed to implement an early closure and mandated that local officials guarantee a supply of Oral Rehydration Salts (ORS) and fix any broken hand pumps to combat…
KOLKATA: “Bulldozer”, “bullets” and “dead miscreants” analogies figured in the speeches of BJP’s central netas who campaigned in poll-bound Bengal over the weekend.Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma’s “bullets for a bullet” rhetoric was matched by defence minister Rajnath Singh, who referred to perpetrators of violence landing up in jail or dead after BJP forms govt…
Kolkata: ED on Monday claimed that arrested realtor Jay S Kamdar was “in close contact” with several police officers — including Santanu Sinha Biswas, a serving DCP in Kolkata Police’s Special Branch — and had been providing them and their family members “favours and expensive gifts”.A Kolkata PMLA court remanded Kamdar to nine days of…
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Monday directed the state govt to make it “imperative” for 104 municipal councils/corporations, where town vending committees (TVCs) are not set up, to conclude the process of elections and constitute the committees within four months.Justices Bharati Dangre and Manjusha Deshpande were hearing petitions by four hawkers and hawkers union….
TNNNew Delhi: A 34-year-old man died under suspicious circumstances while in police custody in northwest Delhi’s Jahangirpuri area, though preliminary medical findings have suggested dehydration as the cause of death, police said on Monday.According to police, the man was picked up during routine patrolling after he was found behaving suspiciously in the area on April…
