Suvendu Adhikari with Amit Shah NEW DELHI: Senior BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari was on Friday formally elected leader of the BJP legislature party in West Bengal, paving the way for him to become the state’s first BJP chief minister.The BJP legislature party met in Kolkata in the presence of Union Home Minister Amit Shah, who…
State Bank of India (SBI) reported a 6% rise in standalone net profit at Rs 19,684 crore for the fourth quarter ended March 2026, lifted by improving asset quality and lower bad loans.The country’s largest lender had posted a net profit of Rs 18,643 crore in the January–March quarter of the 2024–25 financial year.Despite the…
Late actor Rishi Kapoor and actor Neetu Kapoor were one of the most loved couples of The couple got married in 1980, when Rishi was 28 and Neetu was just 22. Though both were at the peak of their careers at the time, Neetu stepped away from films after marriage to focus on family life….
Manipur HSLC Result 2026 Declared At 88.74% Pass Rate, Private Schools Lead Performance Chart Manipur HSLC Result 2026: The Board of Secondary Education, Manipur (BOSEM) has announced the High School Leaving Certificate (HSLC) Examination 2026 results, recording an overall pass percentage of 88.74%. A total of 32,459 candidates cleared the examination out of 36,579 students…
Sunil Gavaskar (PTI Photo) The balance between bat and ball in modern-day cricket has once again come under the spotlight, with Sunil Gavaskar voicing strong concerns over how heavily the game now favours batters in the T20 era.With massive scores becoming routine in the ongoing IPL 2026 season and totals above 250 no longer considered…
HYDERABAD: A tiff over frequent phone conversations ended in a murder at Shivashankar Colony in Fatehnagar. A 39-year-old man allegedly clubbed his wife to death with a dumbbell after suspecting her of speaking to unknown persons over the phone.The accused, Chandra Banu Samal and his wife, Sasmita Samal, 34, natives of Odisha’s Jajpur district, were…
Pune: Having had a taste of top level tennis, Manas Dhamne feels he is not far behind and it is a matter of time before he makes his breakthrough.The 18-year-old, who made his maiden final appearance in an ATP Challenger last week in Shymkent, Kazakhstan, had received wildcards into the qualifying of ATP Masters tournaments…
NEW DELHI: Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut on Friday criticised remarks by US president Donald Trump congratulating Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the BJP’s West Bengal poll victory as “premature and misplaced”, asserting that state elections are an “internal matter of India’s federal democracy”.In a post on X tagging Trump, Raut said that “any…
Barrie Drewitt-Barlow with husband Scott Hutchison British businessman and television personality Barrie Drewitt-Barlow, who became widely known in the UK after he and his former partner were among the country’s “first gay fathers” through surrogacy, has been charged with multiple serious sexual offences alongside his husband Scott Hutchison.Essex Police said 57-year-old Drewitt-Barlow and Hutchison, 32,…
Domestic equity markets ended the week under pressure on Friday as renewed military actions near the Strait of Hormuz weighed on investor sentiment, dragging both benchmark indices lower.The BSE Sensex settled at 77,328.19, down 516.33 points or 0.66 per cent, while the Nifty 50 closed at 24,176.15, falling 150.50 points or 0.62 per cent. Nifty50…
