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…
Chennai: M R Gopalakrishnan, a 46-year-old priest from West Mambalam, does not look anything like M G Ramachandran. But give him 20 minutes, a dollop of make-up, a wig, fur hat and bright clothes and he transforms into the late chief minister and matinee idol, rosy-cheeked and camera-ready to hit the campaign trail. You can…
Gaya: An international delegation of 22 social media influencers from across Asia visited the Mahabodhi Mahavihara, a Unesco World Heritage Site, on Monday.The delegation, comprising influencers from Bhutan, Cambodia, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Singapore, Vietnam and Thailand, visited the shrine as part of India’s ongoing public diplomacy outreach.According to a press release issued…
यूएस की इंटेलिजेंस एजेंसी FBI के डायरेक्टर काश पटेल ने शुक्रवार को एक आर्टिकल छपने के बाद ‘The Atlantic’ मैगज़ीन और इसकी रिपोर्टर सारा फिट्ज़पैट्रिक (Sarah Fitzpatrick) के खिलाफ मानहानि का मुकदमा दायर किया है. संबंधित आर्टिकल में आरोप लगाया गया था कि डायरेक्टर को शराब पीने की लत है, जिससे नेशनल सिक्योरिटी को खतरा…
Indian players celebrates the dismissal of South Africa’s Wiaan Mulder during the first Test in Kolkata in November. (AP) New Delhi: The Indian cricket team faces a packed international calendar after the IPL 2026 concludes on May 31, and the management will monitor workloads before finalising squads for the subsequent assignments. With only a few…
It is a piece of cloth, a gesture of respect among Tamil people. But over the years, the melthundu — ‘mel’ meaning upper, ‘thundu’ meaning cloth — has come to mean much more than that. Forbidden at one point for particular communities, later reclaimed as a mark of protest, and now reimagined in party colours,…
Kolkata: Reliance Jio has emerged as the dominant telecom operator in Bengal in both subscriber base and revenue market share, according to Feb data published by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India.Jio’s subscriber base in the Bengal Circle stands at 2,58,52,760 after adding 1,66,057 new subscribers in Feb, giving it a 44.8% customer market share…
(Left) The complainant’s brother-in-law, Salman, fractured a hand; and (right) the alleged assailants also smashed the car’s windshield MUMBAI: The father-in-law of former India cricketer and Trinamool Congress MP Yusuf Pathan was arrested on Monday, along with his son and a relative, for allegedly assaulting a man and his family in Byculla two days earlier…
