KOLKATA: Ahead of the May 4 counting of votes for the assembly elections, Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee Saturday trashed exit poll results, saying they were conducted to “manipulate the stock market,” and told party colleagues in a virtual address that Trinamool “is winning and winning by 200-plus seats.”Banerjee urged counting agents not to leave their…
Kolkata: Bengal’s centenarian voters turned out in striking numbers in the two-phase Assembly polls, with 7,268 out of the 7,492 electors aged 100 years or above casting their votes. The centenarian voter turnout was nearly 97%, said additional CEO Arindam Neogi. One of the reasons behind the high percentage of voting among the seniors was…
Mumbai: “I don’t see him worried any time,” says Sunil Jain about his son Vihaan. For most fathers that may sound reassuring. For Sunil, it reflects something far deeper.Vihaan Jain, a student of Jai Hind College who has Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, a genetic disorder, scored 73.33% in the Arts stream this year — a result…
Students protest VC at Jamia hostel function over RSS event row NEW DELHI: Protests were reported at Jamia Millia Islamia on Friday night as students raised slogans against Vice Chancellor Mazhar Asif during an annual hostel function, alleging his complicity in allowing an RSS-linked event on the university campus, according to ANI. According to videos…
CHENNAI: Archaeologists of Tamil University have unearthed rare ‘pit houses’ dating to the Neolithic period, at Molapalayam near Coimbatore on the foothills of the Western Ghats.The agro-pastoral community that lived here 3,500 years ago could have used the pits within their houses to store foodgrain or protect themselves from natural disasters, archaeologists said.Some pits had…
Patna: Police recovered 2.068 kg of illegal ganja and seized Rs 3,31,200 in cash from a house in Chhutki Khagaul Chiktoli village under Khagaul police station area of Patna on Saturday.Acting on a tip-off that an individual was involved in the illegal trade of ganja from the premises, a raiding team was constituted on the…
Jamshedpur: A ‘mentally deranged’ man assaulted his father with a cleaver, suspecting him to be a ‘ghost’, at their Shyamnagar-based house in Jamshedpur city on the intervening night of Friday and Saturday, police said.Officer in-charge of Sidhgora police station, Faiz Ahmed, said, “Karam Singh (56) was assaulted multiple times by his son, Nishant Singh (23)….
Ranchi: Police have arrested two members of extremist organisation Tritya Sammelan Prastuti Committee (TSPC) in connection with demanding Rs 10,00,000 from a trader under Ormanjhi police station limits of Ranchi district.Police on Friday had said that the accused, namely Samrit Ganjhu (28), a native of Barkagoan on Hazaribag district and Sonu Oroan (25), a resident…
Sudesh Kumar, who played the protagonist of the tragic love story, ‘Saranga’ (1961), still remembered for its melancholic title track, who became a familiar face as supporting lead in money-spinning Southern productions like ‘Chhoti Bahen’ (1959), ‘Bharosa’ (1963) and ‘Khandan’ (1965), and who went on to produce absorbing thrillers like Uljhan (1975), passed away at…
Kolkata: Two separate burglary cases were reported in Lake Town on May 1, raising concerns over a possible pattern of targeted break-ins in residential pockets during temporary absences of occupants, police said.In the first incident, a complaint lodged by Shanta Jana, a resident of Block A, Lake Town, told police that her house was looted…
