Sole Choice, No Other Name Proposed: Shah KOLKATA: BJP’s Suvendu Adhikari staked claim Friday to form the first saffron govt in Bengal after being unanimously elected leader of the 207-strong legislature party, paving the way for him to take oath Saturday as the state’s ninth chief minister.Union home minister Amit Shah, who had a hand…
Writers’ Building, Kolkata: Also known as Mahakaran, it was initially constructed to house offices for junior clerks of the British East India Company. KOLKATA: Writers’ Buildings and several other Bengal govt offices in Kolkata will turn orange after dusk on Saturday to mark the inaugural day of the first-ever BJP govt.The illumination trials were held…
Congress leadership intervened as supporters of opposition leader V D Satheesan held demonstrations across Kerala, demanding his appointment as the next chief minister. Some activists allegedly tore down posters of AICC leader K C Venugopal, also a contender for the post, prompting the KPCC to direct workers to refrain from such actions. THIRUVANANTHAPURAM/KOTAAYAM: The Congress…
KOLKATA: Investigation into the murder of Bengal CM-designate Suvendu Adhikari’s aide Chandranath Rath has expanded to include possible involvement of contract killers from other states, including UP and Odisha.This came even as sleuths focused on Montu Mondal, a man who was travelling in the SUV in which Rath was shot dead and his driver Buddhadeb…
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…
Long before he became one of India’s most dangerous finishers, Suryakumar Yadav was a regular college boy in Mumbai. Born on September 14, 1990, he grew up in a close‑knit family and began his first‑class cricket journey in the 2010–11 Ranji season. A few years later, in 2011, he entered the IPL with Mumbai Indians…
NEW DELHI: The upheaval brought in Tamil Nadu by Congress‘ decision to break ranks with DMK and align with actor Vijay’s TVK is set to effect division in opposition ranks in Parliament, with the Dravidian party seeking a change of seating arrangement for its MPs, many of whom sat alongside members of the main opposition…
For more than two years, India-Canada relations have been dominated by one deeply contentious issue: Khalistan. What started in September 2023 as a diplomatic standoff over the killing of Khalistani separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Canada soon escalated into one of the most serious diplomatic crises the two countries have faced in decades.Now, the issue…
KOCHI/NEW DELHI: Congress leadership has summoned for discussions the key contenders for the post of Kerala CM, with insiders viewing the selection process as a toss-up between “intra-party support” and “public sentiment” relating to two aspirants.Sources said leader of the opposition VD Satheesan, Ramesh Chennithala, and KC Venugopal, besides state chief Sunny Joseph, will hold…
Norbert Wiener was one of the most unusual mathematicians of the 20th century: a child prodigy who graduated from Tufts at 14, earned a Harvard PhD at 18, and spent most of his career at MIT. During World War II, his work on anti-aircraft fire-control problems helped lead him to the idea of cybernetics, the…