GUWAHATI: The voter turnout in the 2026 Assam assembly polls further climbed on Sunday, reaching close to 86%, according to the EC’s last update. This marks the highest turnout in the state’s history, surpassing previous highs of 84.7% in 2016, and 82% in 2021. Speaking to reporters in Rajasthan, CM Himanta Biswa Sarma said, “All…
KOLKATA: Union minister Amit Shah appealed to Bengal’s tribal communities Saturday to “take revenge” through their votes for what he called insults to President Droupadi Murmu during her visit to the state last month, stepping up BJP’s outreach in tribal belts while promising a “son of soil” as CM if his party forms govt. “Murmu…
NEW DELHI: The Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) on Saturday dismissed claims of the Tamil film, ‘Jana Nayagan’, being leaked from its system as “baseless and misleading”, asserting that its certification process follows a secure, access-controlled protocol. The clarification comes over the film’s alleged online leak in high-definition format, which has triggered outrage. Explaining…
KOLKATA: PM Narendra Modi sharpened BJP’s Bengal campaign on Saturday, dismissing Trinamool Congress’ “khela hobe” slogan and framing the assembly polls as a battle to protect Bengal’s identity, while promising to implement Uniform Civil Code (UCC) to end what he called “politics of appeasement”. “Bahut khel khel liya hai tumne,” Modi said, adding those who…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the leader of opposition in Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, on Saturday exchanged pleasantries and talked briefly at an event, a rarity in the otherwise cold and indifferent equation between them. It is not often that Rahul joins ministers and high functionaries like Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla to…
NEW DELHI: A special aircraft carrying American peace delegation, led by US Vice-President JD Vance, landed on Saturday at Pakistan’s Nur Khan base in Rawalpindi’s Chaklala for peace talks, the same airbase that was one of the key targets of India’s missile strikes as part of Operation Sindoor last May. The Iranian team, led by…
NEW DELHI: LPG tanker Jag Vikram loaded with 20,400 tonne of cooking gas safely crossed Strait of Hormuz on Saturday, becoming the first Indian-flagged vessel to pass through the conflict-hit maritime choke point since the announcement of a temporary two-week ceasefire between the US and Iran, reports Dipak Dash. Jag Vikram is the ninth Indian-flagged…
SRINAGAR: Even after six years after the bifurcation of Jammu and Kashmir into two Union Territories, the Aadhaar records of the people of Ladakh continued to reflect J&K instead of Ladakh.This has finally changed now. Residents of Ladakh can now see their identity reflected in Aadhaar records, with ‘Ladakh’ replacing ‘Jammu & Kashmir’ in the…
SRINAGAR: An eight-year-old girl was mauled to death by dogs in Sopore in the second such fatality in the area in less than a year.Aiman Adnan Sheikh was attacked in an apple orchard near her home in Sopore’s Seloo village, 55km north of Srinagar, on Friday and died within minutes, doctors said. “The child was…
NEW DELHI: Tamil Nadu chief minister M K Stalin on Saturday trained his guns on the BJP-led Centre, accusing it of spreading “saffron lies” that surpasses even “blatant lies.”Addressing a rally in Tiruppatur, Stalin said, “Tamil Nadu has been given important places in all the rankings of the Union Government… Knowing all this, Union Minister…