A special NIA court in Lucknow convicted four Myanmar nationals in fake identity case LUCKNOW: A Special NIA Court in Lucknow on Thursday convicted four Myanmar nationals and sentenced them to seven years’ imprisonment in a case involving illegal entry into India, obtaining Indian identity documents using forged details, human trafficking and use of fake…
Why Scotland, Wales and Ireland want to leave the UK The Partition of India — and before it the Partition of Bengal — were among the most consequential acts of British imperial cartography, with the former leaving countless dead, a subcontinent in perennial trauma and perhaps even helping create some of the geopolitical conditions from…
Renowned Tamil filmmaker Pa. Ranjith has announced the title of his first pan-India film, ‘Vettuvam’. The director took to social media to share the title along with a poster of the upcoming project.The poster features a Mallakhamba pole with performers climbing it, suggesting that the film could be connected to the traditional Indian sport. A…
Abhishek Sharma (BCCI Photo) NEW DELHI: Abhishek Sharma set the Arun Jaitley Stadium on fire with a stunning display of power hitting against Afghanistan in the third T20I on Thursday.The left-handed opener came out attacking from the start and hit the Afghanistan bowlers for sixes and fours all over the ground.Abhishek smashed a blistering century…
Maharashtra’s food and drug administration noted significant price differences for hospital medical devices (File photo) MUMBAI: The Maharashtra food and drug administration (FDA) has flagged a wide disparity between procurement costs and maximum retail prices (MRPs) of several medical devices used in hospitals.The agency has sought the Centre’s intervention to examine the issue and consider…
A man traveled over 400 kilometers overnight to Bengaluru to attack his estranged wife BENGALURU: A man allegedly travelled over 400km overnight from Madurai to Bengaluru to target his estranged wife.The man then attacked her with a machete and allegedly had acid thrown at her near a private clinic in JP Nagar on Thursday, police…
T T V Dhinakaran and C Joseph Vijay CHENNAI: AMMK general secretary T T V Dhinakaran on Thursday demanded that the Tamil Nadu govt release a white paper detailing the investments secured during chief minister C Joseph Vijay’s visit to London.In a statement, Dhinakaran said the govt’s release claimed that the six-day London visit resulted…
Kolkata: A special segment celebrating the 150th anniversary of ‘Vande Mataram’ will be hosted at the 32nd Kolkata International Film Festival (KIFF) 2026. Concurrently, a proposal to revamp the KIFF trophy is under official review.According to a KIFF source, BJP neta Locket Chatterjee has proposed commemorating the 150th anniversary of ‘Vande Mataram’ as a special…
Amritsar: Vikramjit Singh Sahney, one of the seven Rajya Sabha MPs of AAP who had defected to BJP, on Thursday said conversions through allurement, coercion, threat or fraud would not be tolerated, while asserting that the concern was not with any religion or voluntary conversion.Speaking at a ‘Punjab Chintan Baithak’ organised by him in Amritsar,…
Agartala: CPM state secretary and leader of opposition in Tripura, Jitendra Choudhury, on Thursday objected to the state govt’s decision to organise month-long ‘Sewa Sankalp’ programmes using public funds to mark PM Modi’s birthday.The state govt has announced the initiative until Oct 17, describing it as a public service and welfare outreach programme to commemorate…
