Chennai: Even as CPI and CPM have announced that they will hold meetings to decide on extending support to TVK, long-term DMK ally IUML has rejected the request of TVK for an alliance in the state.After TVK fell short of the magical number of 118, the party, led by actor Vijay, sent letters seeking support…
Hyderabad: Telangana BJP is all set to host a public meeting with an eye on Telangana as the next goal for winning the assembly elections after recent success in West Bengal, Assam and Puducherry. According to party sources, he is set to depart from Bengaluru Airport at 1:10 am on Sunday and arrive at Begumpet…
The cave-in formed a pit about 10 feet wide and 20 feet deep, metres away from the site where a similar collapse happened in June last year The cave-in formed a pit about 10 feet wide and 20 feet deep, metres away from the site where a similar collapse happened in June last year The…
Kolkata: Former state chief secretaries, Alapan Bandyopadhyay and Hari Krishna Dwivedi, resigned from their positions as chief advisors to Mamata Banerjee following BJP’s sweeping mandate in the elections. Manoj Pant, another former chief secretary of Bengal, also resigned as principal secretary to the CM. “Apart from Bandyopadhyay, Dwivedi and Pant, several other retired officers serving…
India were found wanting in front of goal against Australia India were handed a reality check by Australia in their opening match of the AFC U-17 Asian Cup 2026 at the King Abdullah Sports City in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on Wednesday.Chasing a historic FIFA U-17 World Cup spot, India’s confidence was punctured by a fifth-minute…
Ahmedabad: The Western Railway’s Ahmedabad Division has dispatched its first spice-loaded train from Mehsana in Gujarat to Assam.The first rake, carrying 4,200 quintals of cumin, was flagged off on Wednesday, from Mehsana station to Azara station in Assam under the Rangiya Division of Northeast Frontier Railway. Officials said that the spices were transported in an…
Chandigarh: Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann‘s claim that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was behind the Tuesday night blasts in Jalandhar and Amritsar snowballed into a political storm on Wednesday, with Congress and Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) slamming the statement. Punjab leader of opposition Partap Singh Bajwa called statements by Mann as “contradictory”. “On one…
Pune: After recording a 35% rise in international passenger traffic in the 2025-26 financial year compared to the previous fiscal, the city airport is now bracing for a slowdown. The ongoing West Asia crisis and rising aviation turbine fuel (ATF) prices are expected to significantly impact international travel from the city.The effects are already visible,…
Shillong: The Meghalaya cabinet approved an amendment to Rule 375 of the Assam Excise Rule, 1945 as adapted and amended by Meghalaya, to levy special duty on Bottle in Origin (BIO) in a bid to raise revenue.“This pertains to the revision of the import pass fee on Extra Neutral Alcohol (ENA) brought in from outside…
Lucknow: A 40-year-old woman accused her husband of abandoning her and secretly marrying another woman. She also alleged that he took away household belongings and threatened to kill her if she pursued legal action.In her complaint, the woman, a resident of Para, alleged that her husband sent her to her parental home on Dec 9…
