Category: Events

KOLKATA: Bengal CM and Trinamool chief, Mamata Banerjee, alleged on Saturday attempts to cancel her Bhowanipore nomination through “false affidavits”. She filed a nomination on April 8, and it was accepted April 10 after scrutiny.Bhowanipore now has 13 candidates, among the highest in Bengal, including eight Independents outnumbering those from registered parties. Two complaints against...

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: 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...

NEW DELHI The polls in Kerala, Assam and Puducherry – which recorded impressive turnouts, including an all-time high for two of the three states/UT – have drawn global attention with 38 international delegates from 22 countries who witnessed them firsthand, voicing their admiration for the high voter participation, meticulous planning and seamless execution of the...

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...

As part of his ongoing US tour, Indian Air Force chief Air Chief Marshal A P Singh held high-level discussions with US Air Force leadership, including Chief of Staff Gen Ken Wilsbach, to strengthen growing defence partnership and talked on shared strategic priorities, procurement of MQ-9B Sky Guardian drones and boosting Indo-Pacific cooperation.The IAF chief...

As part of his ongoing US tour, Indian Air Force chief Air Chief Marshal A P Singh held high-level discussions with US Air Force leadership, including Chief of Staff Gen Ken Wilsbach, to strengthen growing defence partnership and talked on shared strategic priorities, procurement of MQ-9B Sky Guardian drones and boosting Indo-Pacific cooperation.The IAF chief...

​Namibia has denied Starlink a licence to operate​ Elon Musk’s space company Starlink recently posted an update on satellite 34343, which it lost communication with late last month. The SpaceX-owned global internet company said that the satellite “experienced an anomaly” while it was in LEO at around 560 km above the Earth. On March 30,...

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...

RR manager Romi Bhinder violates PMOA protocol (Screengrab) NEW DELHI: Rajasthan Royals manager Romi Bhinder was spotted using a mobile phone in the team’s dugout during his team’s game against Royal Challengers Bengaluru in Guwahati on Friday, violating the PMOA (Players and Match Officials Area) protocol by doing so.The incident occurred during the 11th over...