. Ex-CM Mamata Banerjee participating in a protest rally in Kolkata on Wednesday against hawker eviction and demolition drives —– Photo by Indranil Das Kolkata: The Bengal govt on Wednesday replaced the personal security officers (PSOs) assigned to former CM Mamata Banerjee for nearly two decades, but Banerjee declined to accept the new personnel, her…
Twitch streamer Nina Lin appears to have lost access to her Twitch channel only a few days after she was arrested during the New York Knicks’ championship celebrations. People who visit her channel now see a message saying that the account is unavailable because of violations of Twitch’s Community Guidelines or Terms of Service. While…
With the US and Iran set to sign an interim peace agreement on Friday, PM Narendra Modi told President Donald Trump he was confident that the issue of seafarers will receive the “highest priority” during the implementation of this agreement, while appreciating the president’s “tremendous efforts” in reaching the deal. The leaders spoke to the…
A man who made more than £300,000 by secretly completing coursework and online exams for students has been jailed for three years after a university investigation uncovered his operation.34-year-old Shahid Adnan of Liverpool was sentenced after admitting fraud and money laundering offences linked to a scheme involving students at Liverpool John Moores University and other…
Gone are the days when Greater Noida used to be just an extended region. Today, the place has evolved far beyond being an affordable alternative to Delhi and Noida and in the last 10 years, world-class infrastructure, metro connectivity, expressways, and the Noida International Airport have completely changed its outlook. A number of micro-markets have…
Two of the six Sena UBT MPs said to be part of the breakaway group, Omraje Nimbalkar from Dharashiv and Sanjay Patil from Mumbai North East, have not signed the letter sent to LS Speaker for recognition as a separate group, Sena UBT claimed.Patil and Nimbalkar claimed they were not in New Delhi on Wednesday….
NEW DELHI: Long confined to street-corner arguments, village chaupals and late-night college addas, cuss words such as ‘b…sdi’ and ‘g…u’ found a place in mainstream political discourse on Wednesday, with Sena UBT’s Sanjay Raut using them at a presser to describe defectors, and then telling reporters, “Don’t cut it, run it.“When questioned on his language,…
CHENNAI: Holding that mala fide intent could not be ruled out in a proposal to build a church in the vicinity of a Hindu temple, Madras HC has stayed its construction in Coimbatore.“Coimbatore is a communally sensitive city. It witnessed bomb blasts and bloody religious riots. The proposed church would come up within a stone’s…
Representative photo (AP) NEW DELHI: Drug price regulator National Pharmaceuticals Pricing Authority (NPPA) has approved a 20% price hike for Serum Institute of India‘s BCG, measles and measles-rubella vaccines.This move is unusual since price hikes are rare when one company dominates the market.NPPA had fixed the pr-ice ceiling in Dec 2024 based on Pharmarack data…
A 54-year-old Indian American man is facing a US government lawsuit that could strip him of his citizenship, after authorities said he used false identities and concealed his immigration history to obtain permanent residency and later naturalisation.A civil denaturalisation complaint was filed against Jaswinder Singh, also known as Balwinder Singh, accusing him of illegally obtaining…