File photo: West Bengal chief minister Suvendu Adhikari NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Suvendu Adhikari on Saturday announced that all pending applications for citizenship under the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) in the state would be disposed of within the next six months, asserting that the law was enacted to grant citizenship and not to…
President Donald Trump speaks as FIFA President Gianni Infantino listens at a reception at Trump Tower in New York, Friday, July 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) United States President Donald Trump has publicly addressed Gianni Infantino’s controversial proposal to create a new commercial entity for FIFA competitions, breaking his silence after days of mounting speculation…
CBI books Anil Ambani, Reliance Capital in Rs 1,816 crore EPFO fraud case MUMBAI: The CBI on Saturday registered a cheating case against Reliance Capital Ltd (RCL), its ex-chairman Anil Ambani and unknown public servants over the alleged Rs 1,816 crore loss caused to the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO).The agency alleged that the EPFO…
Sri Lanka’s Rumesh Tharanga Pathirage, centre, with India’s Neeraj Chopra, right, and Yash Vir Singh. (PTI Photo) NEW DELHI: Rivalries define sport and, for years, men’s javelin revolved around the India-Pakistan rivalry between Neeraj Chopra and Arshad Nadeem. But on a bitterly cold, windy Friday evening at Scotstoun Stadium in Glasgow, a new storyline gathered…
Visuals of the aftermath of the strike (Image source: X) A US airstrike on Iran’s Qeshm Island struck a family home, according to Iranian officials and an analysis by The New York Times of available footage.The strike hit a densely populated residential area in Qeshm City in the early hours of Thursday. NYT identifies the…
Shehzad Poonawalla; PM Narendra Modi NEW DELHI: A day after resigning from the party, former BJP national spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla on Saturday released an Instagram video saying he was “disappointed” with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.In a sarcastic jibe at the Congress and its most prominent face, leader of opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi,…
Growing up in Pakistan’s Punjab province, Fatima Zahra had few female boxing role models in her own country. She found one across the border in India’s MC Mary Kom, whose journey inspired her to take up the sport and eventually become Pakistan’s first female Commonwealth Games boxing medallist.The 22-year-old from Sargodha in Pakistan’s Punjab province…
UK new finance minister John Healey. Britain’s new Finance Minister John Healey will present his first Budget on October 28, pledging to maintain the government’s fiscal rules despite growing pressure on public spending.Announcing the date on Friday, Healey said the Budget would focus on shifting resources away from central government and towards communities across the…
File photo: PM Modi and leader of opposition in Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi NEW DELHI: Reacting sharply to Prime Minister Narendra Modi‘s late night Instagram video on Friday, Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi while citing leaked papers, cancelled exams and years of hard work of students destroyed in the process, lashed out…
West Bengal CM Suvendu Adhikari on Saturday assured exiled Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen of full security during her visits to the state, saying the “days of threat culture are over.“Speaking at a felicitation event in Kolkata attended by Nasreen, Adhikari said she should feel free to visit West Bengal as often as she wishes.“Days of…