Kolkata: In West Bengal’s power corridors, few names wielded as much influence while remaining outside public gaze as Sumit Roy. On Saturday, that anonymity evaporated while the man vanished.A pre-dawn police operation at Trinamool national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee‘s Kalighat residence thrust Roy — Banerjee’s long-time aide and personal secretary — into the centre of…
MUMBAI: The legal cases that the Adani Group and its various top officials, including Gautam Adani, the group’s chairman, were facing in the US came to an end on Monday.Adani Enterprises (AEL), the flagship of the Ahmedabad-based Adani Group has paid $275 million (about Rs 2,650 crore at Monday’s exchange rate) to settle a case…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has urged citizens to participate in the ‘Har Ghar Tiranga’ campaign and hoist the Tricolour at their homes as the country prepares to celebrate Independence Day on August 15.In a post on Instagram, Modi said, “Come, let us make Har Ghar Tiranga a celebration in every home.” He called…
Kolkata: Arnab Basu, a city-born scientist and entrepreneur who built an international technology business in Britain, has hosted the annual Matins service for His Majesty’s Courts of Justice at Durham Cathedral — one of England’s most prestigious civic occasions — in his role as high sheriff of the County Palatine of Durham. The event coincided…
Gurgaon: A 25-year-old man died after jumping into a solid waste shredding machine in Kherki Daula on Wednesday.Police, while ruling out foul play, said Raj from Bihar worked as a cook at a waste processing facility in the Bangrola area. The incident occurred between 2.30 and 3pm. He used to live in rented accommodation in…
NEW DELHI: From the stirring notes of Vande Mataram sung by a Slovak folk ensemble to the traditional offering of bread and salt, Prime Minister Narendra Modi received a warm cultural welcome in Bratislava as he began the second leg of his European tour.As India’s first Prime Minister to visit Slovakia, PM Modi was greeted…
Think of the last time someone tried to win you over by shouting. Did it work? Usually, being lectured, shamed or steamrolled makes us dig in harder, not change our minds. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who spent a lifetime fighting for causes she believed in, understood this better than most. Fight for the things that you…
BEST has booked thousands of electricity theft cases and assessed substantial fines MUMBAI: The Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST) undertaking has launched aggressive vigilance drives against power pilferage across the island city, but the utility finds itself largely powerless when collecting dues.Over the past two years, BEST booked 3,669 electricity theft cases and slapped…
Singer James Blunt has been making waves on social media, over allegations linking him to the late Hayden Panettiere. The singer found himself in the midst of a social media storm when netizens seemingly indicated that he was the ‘famous man’ she referenced in her shocking yacht story in her memoir, just three months before…
AHMEDABAD: A 32-year-old woman from Gujarat’s Mehsana district was shot dead by a masked assailant inside a store in the US state of Virginia, sending shockwaves through her native village in north Gujarat. The entire incident, which unfolded within 26 seconds, was captured on CCTV cameras, said sources close to the development. The deceased, Meghna…
