SANTINIKETAN: The age gap between Nobel laureate Amartya Sen and his late mother, Amita Sen, is around 19-and-a-half years. But on Wednesday, an SIR hearing notice reached his Santiniketan house, Pratichi, because the EC found that the age difference was below 15 years.As per the 2025 SIR draft roll, the age of Amartya Sen is…
GUWAHATI: A special CBI court in Guwahati has framed charges against six men and ordered their trial over one of the most brutal crimes of Manipur’s ethnic violence, in which three women were stripped naked and paraded before a mob, two of them gang-raped in broad daylight, and two relatives of one them killed on…
NEW DELHI: Delhi high court Wednesday ordered Congress and AAP to remove, within 24 hours, social media posts linking BJP’s Dushyant Kumar Gautam to the 2022 murder of a woman at a resort in Uttarakhand.In an interim order passed on a defamation suit filed by Gautam, Justice Mini Pushkarna also restrained the two parties from…
NEW DELHI: Indian military retaliation against the terror attack in Pahalgam led Pakistan to frantically seek US mediation to make New Delhi pause the strikes deep inside its territory.Disclosures from US FARA (Foreign Agents Registration Act) filings reveal that between May 7, when IAF struck headquarters of JeM, LeT and Hizbul Mujahideen, and May 10,…
NAGPUR: Nagpur University alumnus Vinayak Pande is all set to become India’s oldest recipient of a Doctor of Literature (DLitt) degree at 97 years, report Sarfaraz Ahmed & Vaibhav Ganjapure. He will be conferred with the degree at the university’s 113th convocation on January 9.Pande, who lives in Bengaluru, will not be able to receive…
PATNA: Customers with their faces covered will not be allowed inside jewellery shops in Bihar. The decision was taken by the Bihar unit of all india jewellers and gold federation at a meeting with the district jewellers’ associations on Tuesday, citing security reasons as gold and silver prices have been on the rise, federation president…
NEW DELHI: The American embassy in India reminded student visa-holders on Wednesday that “a US visa is a privilege, not a right” and “breaking laws can have serious consequences” such as never being able to enter the country again.“If you are arrested or violate any laws, your visa may be revoked, you may be deported,…
MUMBAI: A day after Congress and BJP councillors in Ambernath unveiled an alliance for the local municipal council, Congress state brass condemned the decision and suspended its partymen while CM Devendra Fadnavis said he would recommend action against the local office-bearer.BJP had forged a post-poll understanding with Congress and Ajit Pawar’s NCP, securing a majority…
NEW DELHI: In the backdrop of talks between India and Bangladesh to renew Ganga Water Sharing Treaty, a team of senior officials from Union Jal Shakti ministry visited Farakka Barrage Project in West Bengal and reviewed its technical and administrative aspects .Farakka Barrage, located in Murshidabad and Malda districts, is key to the 30-year-old water…
KOLKATA: A hippopotamus at Alipore zoo, unable to move probably because of a neurological disease or a leg injury, has stayed put in a pool of water in its enclosure for the past fortnight and refused to leave even in the evening for its night sheltera sharp departure from its normal routine.Zoo authorities have set…