New to Bengaluru, Kasturee Chakravarty from Guwahati hoped to meet people with similar interests by attending events and joining clubs. That search led her to Cinema Next Door this January. She discovered it through an Instagram post about the screening of ‘Pan’s Labyrinth’ — a film that was on her watchlist for years — and…
Chennai: Madras high court on Monday dismissed a new public interest writ petition, seeking an Income Tax and the ECI probe into the alleged discrepancies in the financial declaration of actor and TVK founder Vijay in his election affidavit filed for the 2026 Tamil Nadu assembly election.Refusing to entertain the plea, the first bench of…
Kolkata: The Union home ministry has extended the tenure of Bengal DGP Siddh Nath Gupta by six months, just two days before the second phase of Assembly elections. Gupta, who was scheduled to retire on April 30, will now continue in office for an additional six months.Gupta is the first DGP in the state in…
AHMEDABAD: During the ongoing vote counting for the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation election, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is leading in 63 of the 192 seats, while the Congress is ahead in 8 seats.Counting is underway at centres including LD Engineering College and Gujarat College. Traffic restrictions have been imposed in surrounding areas since midnight to…
Chandigarh: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) will hold a meeting of its MLAs in Jalandhar on April 29 with party’s state in-charge Manish Sisodia, a move that comes in the wake of its two primary 2022 election strategists, Raghav Chadha and Sandeep Pathak, defecting to the BJP.The session follows claims made by Chadha that more…
Pune: Officials have warned that beneficiaries of the Mukhyamantri Majhi Ladki Bahin scheme who fail to complete their e-KYC may lose their monthly payments, as many women continue to face difficulties with the process.State govt has set April 30 as the final deadline for completing e-KYC and correcting errors, after granting several extensions in recent…
Lucknow: Stepping up its attack on the BJP-led govts over farmer distress and rising unemployment, the UP Congress on Monday announced the launch of a statewide ‘Kisan naujawan bachao yatra’ from Saharanpur to Delhi beginning May 1.To be led by the UP Youth Congress western zone with support from the state Kisan Congress, the yatra…
According to the family, the boys used to bathe regularly in the water tank, but on Monday they got stuck in the muddy sludge and drowned. The incident has left the family devastated. JAISALMER: In a tragic incident in Chundhi village of Jaisalmer, two cousin brothers drowned after getting trapped in sludge while bathing in…
NEW DELHI: Union minister for parliamentary affairs Kiren Rijiju on Tuesday shared a post-session exchange with Congress MP Shashi Tharoor to sharpen his attack on the opposition over the defeat of the Women’s Reservation Amendment Bill, claiming even Tharoor “agreed” with his remark that the Congress could be seen as anti-women.“We took a picture. Shashi…
154 Claires stores close across UK with 1300 jobs lost in high street shakeup / Image: File Teen jewellery giant Claire’s has shut all 154 of its standalone stores across the UK and Ireland, abruptly ending its decades-long presence on the high street. The closures, confirmed in late April 2026, led to more than 1,300…
