Nandigram: Crude bombs were allegedly hurled at BJP neta Abbas Beg’s house in Nandigram late Thursday, hours after he filed a police complaint against TMC neta Sheikh Sufiyan.Beg, BJP Tamluk minority cell general secretary, said the attack in Nayana was meant to silence him. “It was a clear attempt to eliminate me for speaking out…
New Delhi: Delhi Police arrested four suspects, including three alleged shooters of the Prince Teotia gang, in two encounters in south and north-east districts between Friday night and early Saturday. Three of the accused suffered leg injuries in retaliatory firing by police.In the first operation, a south district team apprehended three gang members after an…
File photo: Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks during a press conference at Downing Street in London. (AP) London: British PM Keir Starmer on Tuesday averted a parliamentary inquiry over his choice of Peter Mandelson, a friend of Jeffrey Epstein, as British ambassador to Washington, but failed to quell questions about whether he bent the…
Leonardo da Vinci (Image: Wikipedia) There are quotes that survive because they offer advice. Others survive because they make people stop and look at familiar things differently. This remark, attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, belongs to the second group.At first glance, it sounds like a technical instruction for painters. Someone unfamiliar with art might read…
Panaji: The Goa University on Thursday withdrew admissions to its newly announced integrated five-year master’s programmes, which were to be rolled out from the 2026-27 academic year.The university’s move follows TOI report that the Goa University was going to start the integrated five-year master’s programmes without prior approval from state govt.In a notification, registrar S…
Ayushmann Khurrana has looked back at his early fame after winning ‘MTV Roadies’ and admitted that he once behaved like a “deep red flag” in his relationship with Tahira Kashyap. The actor said he broke up with Tahira when he was 20 because he thought he needed to focus on himself after his reality show…
Retired IAS Subodh agarwal at ACB Court Jaipur: Former IAS officer Subodh Agarwal was sent to judicial custody by a special court here Wednesday after completion of his remand period.The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) arrested Agarwal on April 9 for his alleged involvement in the Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) scam, where a nexus of private firms…
KOLKATA: A man was arrested from Kolkata’s Garden Reach area for allegedly sending an email to police threatening a suicide bomb attack on West Bengal chief minister Suvendu Adhikari “with the help of terror outfit Al Qaeda,” a senior officer said on Saturday.The accused, identified as 27-year-old Hasnain Iqbal, was arrested following a joint operation…
Kolkata: A couple from Tribeni celebrated their daughter’s first menstruation day , challenging societal taboo and stigma. Thirty two years old Moumita Das posted the pictures of 12-year-old Ahona and the celebration on a social networking site. Her post was flooded with congratulatory messages from the netizens.“A decade ago, I watched the video of how…
Pakistan has a strange gift: just when the world begins to take it a bit seriously, it produces an ‘oops’ moment so spectacular that the script writes itself. One week it is pitching itself as a serious mediator between the United States and Iran; the next, a US senator is publicly asking whether it has…
