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When results from Maharashtra’s long-delayed civic polls came on January 16, it became clear that the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) has made it to the top once again. The BJP swept 1,425 of 2,869 seats across 29 municipal corporations, a strike rate of nearly 50%. In Mumbai’s Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), a Shiv Sena citadel...

Several people were killed and many injured after a blast in Kabul’s Shahr-e-Naw area, Taliban’s interior ministry said on Monday.“An explosion occurred in a hotel on Gulfaroshi Street in Shahr-e-Naw, the fourth district of Kabul city, causing casualties,” Kabul police spokesman Khalid Zadran said. As per local reports, the blast occurred infront of a Chinese...

Bangladeshi nationals approved for a B1/B2 (business and tourist) United States visa will be required to post a bond of up to $15,000 from January 21, 2026, the US Embassy in Dhaka announced on it’s social media page. This new rule will apply only to visas issued on or after that date. Nationals holding a...

BCB denies January 21 ICC deadline NEW DELHI: The Bangladesh Cricket Board has denied reports that the ICC set a January 21 deadline for a decision on the T20 World Cup. The board says no such date was communicated. It has again asked for its matches to be moved to another venue.BCB director Amzad Hossain...

(AI image generated using ChatGPT) In the months before the Iraq war, intelligence about Saddam Hussein’s weapons programmes moved through Western capitals with unusual urgency and little margin for doubt. Claims that Iraq was seeking uranium in Africa, a key ingredient for nuclear weapons, were treated as warning signs of an imminent threat. The implication...

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday personally received UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan at the airport in New Delhi, a special gesture asserting the close ties between the two countries, as the visiting leader arrived for a brief but high-level official visit.MBZ’s visit, undertaken at the invitation of Prime Minister...

How freezing water & ‘cold’ response cost a young life in Noida NOIDA: The death of 27-year-old software engineer Yuvraj Mehta, whose SUV plunged into a water-filled pit near ATS Le Grandiose in Sector 150 in Noida on Saturday, was not just an accident, but a tragedy that could have been avoided.Residents of Sector 150...

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday directed the Election Commission of India (ECI) to display the names of all 1.25 crore electors categorised under “logical discrepancies” during the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in West Bengal, where assembly elections are expected in April-May.A three-judge bench led by Chief Justice of India...