A divorced couple will face off in the Lok Sabha election in Bengal — a situation that has become a talking point in the state as the ruling Trinamool Congress announced its candidates list today. Sujata Mondal will contest against her former husband Soumitra Khan, a BJP candidate from Bishnupur seat of Bandal’s Bankura district….
A professor and his daughter were found dead inside his office at a university campus in Haryana this evening, hours after he told his wife they were going on a short scooter ride. He slit the throat of his eight-year-old daughter with a surgical blade before dying by suicide. He used the same blade to…
Two tribal children who had gone missing a few days ago were found dead in a dense forest area in this central Kerala district, police said here on Sunday. They are suspected to have fallen from a tree while collecting honey. The bodies of the minor boys from a tribal colony near Vellikulangara were recovered…
Anand Mahindra pointed out that India is significantly behind China and US when it comes to R&D spending, urging the government for a boost.
Kalpana Soren, wife of jailed former Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren, on Sunday accused the opposition BJP of attempting to destroy the state and urged the people to give them a befitting reply in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. Ms Soren was in Barhait, assembly constituency of her husband Hemant Soren, on Sunday where she…
Thirteen additional judges from three high courts were on Sunday elevated as permanent judges. While 10 additional judges of Punjab and Haryana High Court were made permanent judges, two from Andhra Pradesh High Court were also elevated. One judge whose parent high court is the Andhra Pradesh High Court was made a permanent judge of…
As the Russia-Ukraine conflict raged in 2022, the United States started “preparing rigorously” for a potential nuclear strike by Moscow against Kyiv, in what would have been the first nuclear attack since the US dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki nearly eighty years before, CNN reported citing two senior administration officials. The report stated…
Asif Ali Zardari on Sunday took oath as Pakistan’s 14th President, a day after the veteran politician staged a remarkable comeback when he was overwhelmingly elected as the only civilian president of the coup-prone country for a second time. Chief Justice of Pakistan Qazi Faez Isa administered the oath to the 68-year-old Mr Zardari in…
The BJP stamped out any speculation about a tweak in Constitution and distanced itself from its MP Ananth Kumar Hegde’s remarks about a change in the founding document if the party comes back to power with two-thirds majority. “MP Ananth Kumar Hegde’s remarks on the Constitution are his personal views and do not reflect the…
Two election commissioners are likely to be appointed by March 15 to fill the vacancies created by the retirement of Anup Chandra Pandey and the surprise resignation of Arun Goel, sources said on Sunday. Days before the poll panel is expected to announce the schedule for the Lok Sabha polls, Goel resigned on Friday morning….