Sandipan Saha (L), Ritabrata Banerjee (R) KOLKATA: Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Monday expelled two of its MLAs, Sandipan Saha and Ritabrata Banerjee, from the party’s primary membership with immediate effect, accusing them of anti-party activities and actions prejudicial to the organisation’s interests.In separate expulsion notices issued on June 1, the party said both legislators had...
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Where are Xi, Trump going? Travel map reveals scale of changing world order
Diplomatic travel is more than ceremony, it shows where leaders choose to place scarce political attention.Presidents and premiers cannot be everywhere, so who they meet, where they go, and how often they host foreign leaders all signal priorities that speeches and strategy papers can obscure.The itineraries aren’t just about who flies where. They show where...
Social media influencer Manasi found dead in Kanpur; family claims dowry harassment
KANPUR: Social media influencer Manasi was found dead under suspicious circumstances in Kanpur, with her family alleging dowry-related harassment and murder, claiming it was later projected as a suicide.The family has accused her husband Sagar Rajput and in-laws of torture and murder, alleging that she was repeatedly harassed over dowry demands.A protest was staged in...
Official: Zee Entertainment’s Unite8 Sports to broadcast FIFA World Cup in India
The 2026 FIFA World Cup will be played in the USA, Canada and Mexico. (Getty Images) New Delhi: It is now official, the 2026 FIFA World Cup – and upcoming editions – will be broadcast on Zee Entertainment Enterprise Limited’s (ZEEL) newly-launched Unite8 Sports linear TV channels in India. The 48-team competition will also be...
Abhishek Banerjee to move court over attack in West Bengal
Abhishek Banerjee (Image/PTI) NEW DELHI: Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee will inform Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla about the mob attack on him in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district and will also move court in connection with the incident, news agency ANI reported citing party sources.The development comes after Abhishek Banerjee was attacked with...
Why Nepal PM’s ‘encroaching’ India remark has sparked row: Border dispute explained
Photo credit: ANI Nepal Prime Minister Balendra Shah has reignited attention on the decades-old India-Nepal border dispute after remarks in Parliament appeared to suggest that Nepal had learnt of “encroachments” involving Indian territory.Shah said that, “The Nepal government has officially sent a diplomatic note to India, mentioning the issue of encroachment of territories by India,...
CBSE OSM row: Education ministry begins crackdown over alleged irregularities
NEW DELHI: Action is set to follow against officials in the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) as the ministry of education has initiated an internal crackdown over alleged irregularities in a controversial tender process and serious vulnerabilities in the board’s digital evaluation ecosystem.According to ministry sources, a detailed report from CBSE on the tender...
Twisha Sharma death : CBI uses dummies to recreate crime scene; questions Giribala Singh
BHOPAL: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Monday recreated the crime scene at the residence of former judge Giribala Singh as part of its ongoing probe into the death of Twisha Sharma, with investigators seeking to reconstruct the sequence of events and verify statements recorded during the investigation, sources said.The reconstruction exercise was carried...
NEET paper leak row: SC refuses urgent hearing of plea seeking computer-based retest
Supreme Court NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday refused an urgent hearing on a plea seeking that the NEET UG 2026 re-examination, scheduled for June 21, be conducted in computer-based test (CBT) mode instead of the traditional pen-and-paper format.The plea was mentioned before a partial-working-day bench comprising Justices PS Narasimha and Arvind Kumar, which...
3 die, 2 taken ill after inhaling toxic gas in Ludhiana sewage tank
LUDHIANA: Three men, including a father-son duo, died after inhaling toxic gas at a hand tools manufacturing unit located at RK road in Ludhiana in the wee hours of Monday. Two other factory workers, who are unconscious, have been admitted to the hospital.The deceased are Maan Singh, his son Amit amd and the worker of...
