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The deceased family Mumbai: A Saturday night feast turned tragic when four members of a family – two sisters and their parents – died within hours of eating a watermelon. While five other relatives had shared biryani-pulao with them at 10.30pm, and reported no symptoms, the fruit was consumed only by the four around 1am...

Thane: A man shows a sticker after the Maharashtra government plans to make Marathi language compulsory for autorickshaw and taxi drivers, in Thane. (PTI Photo) Mumbai: Maharashtra transport minister Pratap Sarnaik Monday put on hold the decision to cancel licences and permits of auto and taxi drivers from May 1 over non-compliance with the Marathi...

BJP president Nitin Nabin (second, right) welcomes Raghav Chadha, Sandeep Pathak, Ashok Mittal, others to BJP New Delhi: Rajya Sabha chairman C P Radhakrishnan has officially accepted the merger of seven AAP MPs with BJP – taking the governing party’s strength in the 245-member upper House to 113.With Raghav Chadha, Sandeep Pathak, Ashok Mittal, Harbhajan...

Mamata Banerjee, Suvendu Adhikari Kolkata: Battleground Bengal’s defining contest is playing out in south Kolkata’s Bhowanipore, where CM Mamata Banerjee faces one-time aide Suvendu Adhikari of BJP in what is an electoral rematch of far greater consequence than when she narrowly lost to him in Nandigram in 2021. For Trinamool Congress, retaining Bhowanipore isn’t just...

Defence minister Rajnath Singh Defence minister Rajnath Singh on Monday landed in Kyrgyzstan’s capital of Bishkek to participate in Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) defence ministers’ meeting on Tuesday, which is likely to discuss the prevailing situation in West Asia.The defence ministers of various member countries will deliberate upon a number of issues concerning defence and...

Kolkata: Union Home Minister Amit Shah during a roadshow in support of BJP candidates Indranil Khan (Behala Paschim) and Shankar Sikdar (Behala Purba) for West Bengal Assembly elections, at Behala in Kolkata. (PTI Photo/Manvender Vashist Lav) NEW DELHI: Union home minister Amit Shah wound up his poll campaign in Bengal on Monday by asking people...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi waves during a roadshow, in Gangtok, Sikkim. (PMO via PTI Photo) KOLKATA: Prime Minister Narendra Modi wrapped up his party’s Bengal campaign on Monday with an ear to the ground and his eyes fixed on the “historic change” that he predicted would unravel on May 4, with him back soon after...

Maharashtra minister Nitesh Rane received a one-month jail sentence for pouring mud on an NHAI engineer in 2019. MUMBAI: A court in Sindhudurg on Monday convicted state minister Nitesh Rane in a 2019 case of pouring mud on an NHAI engineer when he was in opposition, and sentenced him to one-month imprisonment, noting that lawmakers...

LUCKNOW: A video of UP IPS officer Ajay Pal Sharma issuing a stern warning against alleged voter intimidation in West Bengal surfaced on social media on Monday, with barely 48 hours left for the second phase polling.Sharma, who has been made police observer in South 24 Parganas district, took on-ground action following complaints that voters...

Representational image Varanasi: A 36-year-old businessman was lynched by a mob after his car hit a woman washing utensils along the road in Phulpur area of Varanasi.Police said that around 10.30pm on Sunday, Manish Singh was returning home from his factory. The car went out of control while passing through a road in Ghamhapur village...