Kolkata: A "200-year-old building" in north Kolkata collapsed early Tuesday morning after nightlong heavy showers in the city, killing one person. As many as 19 other residents of the building are still feared trapped under the debris, prompting apprehensions of a rise in the death...
Ranchi: Students protesting against alleged irregularities in Jharkhand recruitment examinations may take a call on withdrawing the demonstration Tuesday after the state government cancelled all recruitment tests, including the JSSC-CGL exam, conducted by an outsourced agency since 2014. The announcement came after Chief Minister Hemant...
Jammu: Security forces launched search operations at several locations following reports of the movement of suspected persons in Udhampur, Reasi and Kathua districts of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said Tuesday. The police, in collaboration with the CRPF, began a cordon-and-search operation after receiving information about...
Washington: Making a strong case for stricter electoral laws in the US, President Donald Trump praised the Indian election system and recalled Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar questioning lack of voter identification in American polls. In a post on Truth Social Monday, Trump said over...
New Delhi: Elon Musk-owned X will have to follow the law of the land on the social media platform's new rule to make content takedown requests by any government public, a government official said Monday. Musk shared a new algorithm introduced on X, saying "any...
Washington: US President Donald Trump has urged Iran to raise the “white flag of surrender” as a 60-day ceasefire understanding expires, while signalling that he is in no hurry to set a deadline for Tehran. Trump told Fox News in an interview that American naval...
Washington: The Supreme Court Monday again rebuffed President Donald Trump's push to throw out a jury's USD 5 million finding that he sexually abused the writer E. Jean Carroll at a New York City department store in the mid-1990s and later defamed her. The Republican...
Tehran: Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said Monday that Iran and Oman have agreed on the map of the new route for maritime traffic in the Strait of Hormuz. He made the remarks at a weekly press conference in Tehran while elaborating on the...
Tarapith (West Bengal): Eight people died in a fire at a hotel in West Bengal's Birbhum district early Monday, following which police detained one person for alleged lapses in the maintenance of the establishment's fire-fighting system, officials said. Of the 43 people who were in...
Washington/Islamabad: US President Donald Trump has termed the Saudi Arabia-Turkiye-Pakistan defence agreement a "big, bold and important first step" towards defending themselves in a "more meaningful way". Signed in Makkah August 7, the pact establishes a framework for collective deterrence and stipulated that an armed...
It is a happy augury for Indian democracy that the country's young talents aspiring to join the legal profession have...
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In any democracy, the most disturbing threat to freedom is not always censorship. Sometimes it is the language used to...
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By Dilip Cherian India’s bureaucracy may be running short of one thing more important than babus: succession. The Centre’s decision...
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A colossal tragedy on a sea has given fillip to ultra-right politics in Italy, Germany and the UK. The three...
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