Kolkata: Former West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Sunday faced protests from Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers and supporters while visiting the family of a Trinamool Congress worker who allegedly died in police custody in Kanchrapara of North 24 Parganas district. Demonstrators surrounded Mamata Banerjee's...
Kathmandu: Prime Minister Balendra Shah 'Balen' is set to hold separate bilateral meetings focussing on bilateral relations with the Indian and Chinese ambassadors to Nepal Monday, the first such one-on-one diplomatic engagements after more than 100 days in office. After meeting the Indian envoy first,...
Toronto: Months after a 30-year-old Indian woman was found murdered in Canada's Toronto, the police have arrested her partner, 32-year-old Abdul Ghafoori, local media reported, citing the officials. The woman, identified as Himanshi Khurana, was found murdered in December last year. Police had called it...
Kolkata: Sumit Roy, the personal assistant of the Trinamool Congress’ general secretary and the party’s Lok Sabha member, Abhishek Banerjee, arrived at the office of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the West Bengal Police in South Kolkata Sunday to face interrogation in relation to...
Beijing: Shanghai's two airports cancelled more than 1,300 flights and authorities relocated some 300,000 people in surrounding regions as China prepared for Typhoon Dolphin, after the storm brought heavy rains to northern Taiwan. The outer bands of the storm on Saturday hit northern Taiwan, including...
Ranchi: The students' protest in Jharkhand's Ranchi entered its 16th day Sunday with no signs of retreat, as the second round of talks between the protesting students and the state government once again failed to produce any breakthrough or agreement on their key demands. The...
Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir Police Sunday carried out simultaneous searches at 26 locations in Sopore in connection with a UAPA case against the banned Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI) organisation. Officials said these searches are part of the investigation to gather evidence and trace the links of...
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Saturday received a phone call from the US Vice-President JD Vance; both discussed ways to further deepen India-US Comprehensive Global Strategic Partnership across key areas. PM Modi also congratulated JD Vance and his wife, Usha Vance, on the birth...
Chennai: Chief Minister C Joseph Vijay-led meeting of Tamil Nadu MPs belonging to alliance and friendly parties Saturday decided to oppose in total the proposed delimitation exercise of the union government. The meeting was boycotted by the main Opposition party, the DMK, and key Dravidian...
Dubai: Iran's politburo-like body known as the Supreme National Security Council said the Strait of Hormuz will not open until the United States "corrects its behaviour," issuing new demands that could shake up talks on a deal to manage the waterway and traffic on it....
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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Police used water cannons, lobbed tear gas shells, and lathi-charged job aspirants as they breached barricades multiple times on 10...
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The defence pact between Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan, signed in Mecca on the principle that an attack on one...
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