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KOLKATA: CM Suvendu Adhikari on Tuesday announced that heavily subsidised Maa canteens across urban areas in the state will soon serve a fish-rice lunch twice a week at Rs 5.“We have decided that all 367 Maa canteens across the state will serve fish twice a week. The meal will be available for just Rs 5,”...

Zubeen Garg Guwahati: The fast-track court set up in connection with singer Zubeen Garg’s death in Singapore in Sept 2025 framed charges against all seven accused on Tuesday, including murder charges against four.The trial is scheduled to begin on June 8. The Assam court’s decision comes two months after the Singapore Coroner’s court, on March...

Dr Ronaldo Laishram GUWAHATI: An Indian astrophysicist from Manipur, based at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), has led an international team to discover a 12.6-billion-year-old primitive galaxy protocluster, described as the “seeds” of today’s massive cosmic structures.The structure, located in the direction of the constellation Sextans, has been named the ‘Loktak Protocluster’ after...

A car being pulled by a tractor amid poor road conditions(L), Union home minister Amit Shah (R: Photo credit: X/@Amit Shah) RAIPUR: Tired of waiting for a road that has remained incomplete for nearly a decade, residents of a remote tribal village in Chhattisgarh’s Sukma district in Bastar have now made an unusual appeal to...

Tamil Nadu political crisis: Rebel AIADMK MLA Balakrishna Reddy backs EPS, submits apology letter amid party turmoil NEW DELHI: Amid growing factionalism within the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam and a series of resignations by rebel legislators, Hosur MLA P Balakrishna Reddy on Tuesday extended support to party general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami in...

Photo credit: PTI NEW DELHI: In what is being seen as a shift in stance from that conveyed by its strongly worded letter to Delhi Gymkhana Club (DGC) to “hand over peaceful possession” of its premises on June 5, Centre on Tuesday seemed more restrained in Delhi High Court, saying that it had given the...

Clashes among members of Poonam Cluster housing society MIRA BHAYANDER: Tensions flared in Mira Road on Monday and Tuesday after members of the Poonam Cluster housing society objected to goats being kept in the society’s premises ahead of Bakri Eid, which falls on May 28. Videos of arguments went viral on Monday evening, and according...

HYDERABAD: The family of Arun Kumar Tiwari, 53, a Hyderabad-based tech professional who died near the Hillary Step while descending Mount Everest last week, has decided to leave his body on the mountain, citing faith, his love for the Himalayas, and the near-impossible task of recovery from the “death zone”.Pioneer Adventure, which handled the Indian...

TOI correspondent from Washington: US President Donald Trump, who turns 80 next month, has spent years presenting himself as less an aging president than a human monument to stamina, fast food, and pure willpower. He rarely admits fatigue, claims to sleep little, and speaks about his own health the way medieval poets described immortal kings.Now,...

In the summer of 1999, after a gap of almost 28 years, the Indian Air Force received orders on May 26 to take the fight to the enemy. The whine of jet engines echoed across airfields in the north — from Srinagar, Awantipur, Pathankot, and Adampur — along with feverish activity across these bases, all...