Mallikarjun Kharge (PTI photo) NEW DELHI: Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge on Thursday responded to a stern notice from the Election Commission, saying, “our people will reply to it.” The poll body had, a day earlier, issued an ultimatum to the veteran leader over his “terrorist” remarks on Prime Minister Narendra Modi.On the notice, Kharge said,…
KOLKATA: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday carried out searches at multiple locations in West Bengal as part of its ongoing money laundering investigation into the alleged ration distribution scam, officials said.ED teams are also conducting a raid at the residence of businessman Partha Sarathi in North 24 Parganas district in connection with the Public…
Roughly four kilometres below the surface of the central Pacific Ocean, scattered across a stretch of seafloor the size of the continental United States, lie hundreds of billions of apple-sized rocks. They are dark, lumpy, and almost impossibly slow-growing, a few millimetres every million years. Some of the ones sitting on the seabed today began…
NEW DELHI: A parliamentary panel Monday summoned the National Testing Agency (NTA) chief to review reforms in the backdrop of the NEET-UG paper leak that has raised serious concerns about the procedural flaws in the conduting of the country’s one of the most tedious and competitive examination.NTA chairperson Pradeep Kumar Joshi and other bureaucrats have…
Bhuvneshwar Kumar (Pic credit: IPL) NEW DELHI: It was a night to remember for Royal Challengers Bengaluru pacer Bhuvneshwar Kumar, who etched his name alongside Jasprit Bumrah in the IPL record books during a sensational spell against Delhi Capitals on Monday.The veteran seamer picked up figures of 3 for 5, registering his 20th three-wicket haul…
New footage circulating online appears to show Russian forces deploying the handheld “Yolka” interceptor drone system in combat, signalling a wider operational use of the low-cost anti-drone weapon designed to target enemy reconnaissance and FPV drones.The latest video shows a Russian soldier launching the compact interceptor from a pistol-like handheld device before it autonomously tracks…
KOLKATA: The saffron surge in the Bengal assembly elections, which swept BJP to office for the first time in the state, saw the party leading in 102 of the 144 wards of Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC), fuelling speculation about how long Trinamool Congress can hold on to the civic body.The tenure of the current KMC…
Your seniors stand with you today, and that’s a strong wind behind your back. The Sun highlights your reputation, and Jupiter, your own planet, brings honour through steady effort. You may get appreciation in a meeting or a message that confirms you’re on the right track. Take it in. You’ve earned it.Still, a small worry…
Hyderabad: Chief minister A Revanth Reddy on Monday termed Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s appeal to the people to postpone buying gold and plans to travel abroad for a year, as a complete failure of BJP-led NDA govt and its foreign policy. The comments came a day after Modi asked people to bring back some of…
NEW DELHI: As Trinamool Congress stares at its biggest crisis with a faction claiming the support of 58 of 80 MLAs, the role of the West Bengal assembly speaker will be decisive in recognising one camp as the “original party” – as happened in the case of Shiv Sena in Maharashtra.The Constitution’s Tenth Schedule bars…
