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NEW DELHI: “You are a nominated official, but I am an elected representative … ” The Trinamool Congress’s offensive against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar has set the stage for an all-out confrontation over the ongoing Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls ahead of upcoming assembly elections in West Bengal. Mamata Banerjee’s nephew Abhishek Banerjee,…

NEW DELHI: Year 2025 was the eighth warmest year on record in India whereas the 2016-25 period emerged as the warmest decade, the IMD said while releasing its annual climate summary on Thursday. Making a monthly forecast for the current month, it said most regions of the country are likely to experience “below normal” minimum…

MUMBAI: Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut on Thursday claimed the ruling BJP’s agenda is to ensure that a ‘Marathi manoos’ does not become the mayor of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC).Talking to reporters, Raut further claimed that the BJP wants to hurt the Marathi people.Responding to remarks made by BJP leader Kripashankar Singh that…

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the Grand International Exposition of Sacred Piprahwa Relics related to Bhagwan Buddha, titled “The Light & the Lotus: Relics of the Awakened One”, on January 3, at around 11am at the Rai Pithora Cultural Complex in New Delhi.According to the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), the Exposition brings…

CHANDIGARH: Haryana Congress president Rao Narendra Singh on Thursday met the family members of a woman, who was allegedly gangraped by two men in a moving van through the night and thrown out of the speeding vehicle in Faridabad in the wee hours of Wednesday.Singh visited a private hospital in Faridabad, where the woman is…

If TMC is so confident of winning Assembly polls, why are they crying over SIR: BJP’s Priyanka Tibrewal slams Abhishek Banerjee Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], January 1 (ANI): After Trinamool Congress leader Abhishek Banerjee accused the Election Commission of India (ECI) of facilitating “vote theft,” BJP leader Priyanka Tibrewal alleged that Bangladeshi infiltrators had been…

NEW DELHI: Two terror associates were arrested and arms, ammunition along with cash worth Rs 8.40 lakh were seized by the Jammu and Kashmir Police during a late-evening operation in Ganderbal district.The operation was carried out by Police Station Ganderbal with the support of the Special Operations Group (SOG) near Gundrehman Bridge. Based on specific…

BENGALURU: Air Marshal Seethepalli Shrinivas Thursday assumed charge as Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief (AOC-in-C) of the IAF Training Command headquartered in Bengaluru. After taking over, he paid homage to fallen personnel by laying a wreath at the Training Command War Memorial.An alumnus of the National Defence Academy, Shrinivas was commissioned into the fighter stream of the…

NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday said it has conducted searches at the accounting firm of real money online money gaming app WinZO and has frozen fresh bank deposits, mutual funds and fixed deposits worth Rs 192 crore.The raid at the office premises of the auditor was conducted on December 30.During the search,…

NEW DELHI: Nearly three months after sustained protests erupted at Tezpur University, the ministry of education (MoE) has directed vice-chancellor Shambhu Nath Singh to proceed on leave and has constituted a high-level enquiry committee to probe allegations against him, officials said on Wednesday.The decision comes amid mounting pressure from students and faculty members, who have…