BJP candidate Debangshu Panda celebrates at Falta, in South 24 Parganas district, West Bengal. (PTI Photo) NEW DELHI: The BJP won the Falta assembly constituency repoll in West Bengal, with its candidate Debangshu Panda securing over one lakh more votes than his closest rival as counting was held on Sunday for the repoll which took…
External affairs minister S Jaishankar and US secretary of state Marco Rubio addressed issues ranging from visa reforms and anti-India racism to defence cooperation during a joint press conference in New Delhi. At least 24 Pakistani personnel were killed and over 100 injured after the banned Baloch Liberation Army claimed responsibility for a suicide train…
The last rites of Twisha Sharma were performed at a crematorium in Bhopal on Sunday, after her body was handed over to the family following the completion of key medical formalities.The funeral took place amid mounting public attention on the case, with the family continuing to demand justice in the alleged dowry death matter.Welcoming the…
NEW DELHI: At least eight people, including seven women, drowned in the Thatte Hakkalu river in Karnataka’s Uttara Kannada on Sunday, according to police sources quoted by news agency PTI. The incident took place near Bhatkal, triggering a large-scale search and rescue operation by local authorities and emergency teams.Officials said several people were swept away…
NEW DELHI: Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Sunday dismissed leader of opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi’s reported remarks predicting the fall of the NDA government, describing them as “daydreaming” and “mere imagination”.This comes as the BJP alleged that Rahul Gandhi, during a meeting of the advisory council of the Congress minority department…
Air Chief Marshal AP Singh, PVSM,AVSM, Chief of the Air Staff Interacting with Graduating Officers of 48th Flight Test Course at Air Force Test Pilot School. BENGALURU: Eleven test pilots and six flight test engineers graduated from the 48th Flight Test Course of the Air Force Test Pilots School after completing a 48-week multidisciplinary training…
It is a cockroach world, we are just living in it. (AI photo by ChatGPT) NEW DELHI: They have been disliked and despised by humans since ages. But today, they are being “liked” and “followed” like never before. Well, you guessed it right! We are talking about cockroaches – which have today become the talk…
China thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his condolences over the deadly mining accident in China’s Shanxi Province that has claimed at least 82 lives and left two people missing. Chinese Ambassador to India Xu Feihong on Sunday said that India’s sympathy and support were “deeply valued” in response to PM Modi’s post on X.The…
Ebola outbreak (Image credit: AP) Hours after the Indian government issued a travel advisory asking citizens to avoid non-essential travel to the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda and South Sudan, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has announced that India has sent emergency medical assistance to the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.In a post…
Kerala government and public sector employees can look forward to two consecutive days of holiday in the middle of next week as the state administration on Sunday declared May 28 also as a holiday for Bakrid, in addition to May 27.In a notification, the General Administration Department said that May 27 had already been declared…
