KOLKATA: Union home minister Amit Shah on Friday framed BJP’s sweeping victory in West Bengal not merely as a political win but as a decisive shift tied to national security as he addressed newly elected party MLAs.“Friends, this victory is not merely about BJP’s expansion or ideology. Nor is it about forming a BJP-NDA govt…
NEW DELHI: Defence minister Rajnath Singh on Friday said “future wars will not be won solely through weaponry, but through innovative thinking and enhanced synergy” and advised commanders of the three services to cultivate the “element of surprise in any given situation as it’s must to secure a strategic edge”.Addressing the second edition of Joint…
NEW DELHI: Observing that no person can be permitted to profit from his own wrongdoing, SC on Friday held that a person accused of committing murder or abetting in the murder of another person would be barred from inheriting the victim’s property.A bench of Justices J B Pardiwala and R Mahadevan said such disqualification on…
Indian-American businessman Debashis Ghosh to lose US citizenship over past fraud. Debashis Ghosh, a 62-year-old Indian-American businessman, is likely to lose his US citizenship as the Department of Justice moved to denaturalize him along with 11 other individuals. Ghosh committed wire fraud before and after he became a US citizen in 2012 and he was…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court Friday said it would not direct the clubbing of FIRs against a person accused of duping thousands of investors across states while rejecting a plea by Sameer Agrawal of Saga group who fled to Dubai after allegedly misappropriating Rs 10,000 crore maturity amounts of depositors in a cooperative society.Appearing for…
A newly released Pentagon video has sparked fascination over UFOs after appearing to show a strange “eight-pointed star” moving across the sky.The infrared footage was published on Friday in the UFO-related government files ordered by US President Donald Trump. According to the documents, the clip was recorded in 2013 by US Central Command personnel using…
NEW DELHI: National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) has for the first time tracked the cases of cruelty against animals and compiled the data, noting registration of 9,039 cases and arrest of 10,312 persons in the country in 2024.Maharashtra recorded highest number (2,356) of such cases followed by Madhya Pradesh (1,346), Uttar Pradesh (1,121), Gujarat (526)…
US President Donald Trump on Friday announced a three-day ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine starting Saturday, expressing hope that the temporary truce could pave the way for a long-term agreement to end the war.The ceasefire, which will run from May 9 to May 11, will also include a mutual exchange of 1,000 prisoners from each…
Texas woman Kelly Smith posts an AI-generated photo to mock Indians and says her new name is Pria. A Texas woman who claims to be running for the Texas governor election stoked some fresh anti-India sentiments as she ‘decided to become an Indian’ as all Indians, she said, have been claiming to be just as…
NEW DELHI: An IndiGo flight from Kolkata to Patna made an emergency landing at Chaudhary Charan Singh International Airport on Friday after adverse weather conditions prevented it from landing in Patna, airport officials said.According to airport sources, weather conditions in Patna deteriorated suddenly on Friday afternoon, disrupting flight operations in the city.IndiGo flight 6E 6917,…