NEW DELHI: Days after securing a massive victory in the Kerala assembly election, Congress is yet to finalise its pick for chief minister.Three senior leaders are in the race — V D Satheesan, Ramesh Chennithala and K C Venugopal. All three were in Delhi as of Saturday, with Congress high command holding meetings through the…
NEW DELHI: Over 20,000 Indian seafarers are staring at a humanitarian nightmare in the Gulf and Strait of Hormuz amid escalating tensions, with fears of conflict spillover trapping vessels and leaving crews stranded without food, medicine or escape routes, said National Union of Seafarers of India (NUSI), one of the country’s oldest maritime unions. The…
SRINAGAR: For nearly two decades, adventure tourism transformed Kashmir’s mountains into a magnet for high-end domestic tourists and foreign visitors. Trekkers crossed alpine meadows, glacier-fed valleys and mountaineers climbed Kolahoi peak, turning the sector into one of the Valley’s fastest-growing tourism industries. Much of that activity has now fallen silent.After last year’s Pahalgam terror attack…
AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal accused BJP of using central agencies for political purposes alleging repeated ED action in Punjab was aimed at intimidating state leadership. Punjab BJP president Sunil Jakhar accused Mann’s govt of shielding corruption.ED has been active in Punjab for well over a month, during which seven AAP Rajya Sabha MPs switched to…
NEW DELHI: Amid a strong claim of Kerala leader V D Satheesan to the CM’s post, Congress brass Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi Saturday brainstormed the selection of the next leader in the state, while hearing out the three aspirants that include K C Venugopal and Ramesh Chennithala. Venugopal is a strong contender for the…
Three men, including a Pakistani national, have been charged in the United States for allegedly attempting to smuggle 89 firearms, including at least 17 reported stolen, from the US into Canada, authorities said.According to a statement issued by the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, the arrests followed a traffic…
KOLKATA/SILIGURI: For decades, at the break of dawn, Makhanlal Sarkar would leave his modest home in Surya Sen Park Colony in Siliguri in ‘khadi’ shorts, RSS belt and boots for organisational work. At 97, the lifelong swayamsevak and grassroots political worker has received what many in his locality dub as the recognition of a lifetime…
KOLKATA: Soon after Suvendu Adhikari was sworn in as the ninth chief minister of West Bengal on Saturday – also the first BJP chief minister in the state – the change was officially updated in his social media bio. The words “chief minister” debuted in his bio on his official Facebook and X pages.Mamata Banerjee,…
NEW DELHI: Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Saturday conducted searches at 17 locations in Mumbai in connection with three cases registered against Reliance ADA Group companies, Reliance Telecom Limited, Reliance Commercial Finance Limited and Reliance Home Finance Limited and their directors.According to CBI, the searches were carried out at the residential premises of directors…
After the oath ceremony, a visibly emotional PM knelt before the crowd and touched his forehead to the ground. “I bow to West Bengal’s Jana Shakti! The people’s blessings are the truest strength of democracy and the noblest source of public resolve,” Modi later posted on X. He posted a second message congratulating the new…