NEW DELHI: Piling on PM Modi for asking people to adopt Covid-type austerity measures in wake of the West Asia crisis, opposition parties said the PM always seeks sacrifices from people to avoid accountability for his failures. They also accused him of duplicity and asked why was he claiming “all is well” during poll campaign…
SAN DIEGO: President Donald Trump nominated Cameron Hamilton Monday to lead the Federal Emergency Management Agency, a surprising comeback for the former Navy SEAL who was fired from his role as FEMA’s temporary leader last year after he defended its existence.His nomination comes as the Trump administration has increasingly signalled it is backing away from…
NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi will depart for a five-nation tour on Friday, beginning with the UAE, said govt in an official announcement. Modi will visit the UAE, Sweden and the Netherlands on his way to Norway for the India-Nordic summit that was postponed last year in the aftermath of the Pahalgam terrorist attack.Modi will…
Kolkata: Five days after the murder of Chandranath Rath, the personal assistant of Suvendu Adhikari, by gunmen, barely 170 metres from his Madhyamgram residence, the Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the case and camping in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar has nabbed three persons in connection with the incident. One of the accused has been identified…
KOLKATA: The BJP govt on Monday directed police to ensure loudspeaker sound does not travel beyond religious precincts and that prayer congregations do not block roads and cause inconvenience to the public, except on special occasions.These were among the dozen instructions to senior police officers that also included zero tolerance for illegal coal- and sand-mining,…
CHHATRAPATI SAMBHAJINAGAR: A Paithan farmer’s onion sale receipt has once aging put the spotlight on the deepening agrarian distress in Maharashtra.Prakash Galadhar, a 45-year-old farmer from Varudi in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar’s Paithan taluka, sold 25 sacks of onions at the Paithan APMC, only to realise a total value of Rs 1,262, amounting to Re 1 per…
DHAKA: Bangladesh cannot be intimidated with “barbed wire”, PM Tarique Rahman’s foreign affairs adviser Humaiun Kobir said Monday as the new BJP govt in West Bengal in its first cabinet meeting decided to transfer land to Border Security Force (BSF) for fencing the border with Bangladesh.Targetting Bengal CM Suvendu Adhikari, he said election rhetoric and…
Gisele Bündchen and Tom Brady (via Getty Images) Mother’s Day 2026 just gave us something nobody was fully prepared for. Tom Brady, a seven-time Super Bowl winner, currently very much Gisele’s EX-husband, hopped on his Instagram Stories and gave a shoutout to Gisele Bündchen. Publicly. For the world to see.And before you say, “Oh, that’s…
(Left) K C Venugopal, Rahul Gandhi, V D Satheesan THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The suspense over Kerala’s next chief minister remains unresolved as the Congress high command is still weighing competing claims from senior leaders, with lobbying by camps backing K C Venugopal and V D Satheesan intensifying after consultations in New Delhi.The Congress leadership is yet to…
Dwyane Wade and Zaya Wade (Image Via Getty) Life after basketball has given former NBA star Dwyane Wade a very different kind of spotlight. Instead of championships and playoff pressure, Wade has spent the last few years speaking openly about family, parenting and supporting his daughter Zaya Wade after she came out as transgender. The…