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CHENNAI: Actor Vijay’s Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam missed the majority mark of 118 by just 10 seats. A closer look at the results show that in at least a dozen constituencies, TVK lost by margins so small that a minor swing could have changed the outcome. In one seat, the defeat margin was under 300 votes....

WhatsApp parent Meta has published a new security advisory for the instant messaging app. WhatsApp Security Advisories 2026 Updates announce patches for two vulnerabilities. WhatsApp has fixed these two security flaws that the company says can be misused to interfere with the way media and attachments are handled on users’ devices. According to Malwarebytes Labs,...

PM Modi and Donald Trump US President Donald Trump has congratulated PM Modi on his “historic” election victory, a White House spokesman said Tuesday, in an apparent take on the recent round of assembly polls that were headlined by BJP’s big win in West Bengal.White House spokesman Kush Desai spoke of Trump’s warm sentiments for...

US secretary of state Marco Rubio “Operation Epic Fury is concluded,” US secretary of state Marco Rubio declared early Thursday, marking the end of over two months of unrest triggered by a major military escalation involving the United States and Israel against Iran.The conflict, aimed at curbing the nuclear ambitions of Ali Khamenei’s regime, also...

A blast near Amritsar’s Khasa cantonment and a scooter fire in Jalandhar have sparked political outcry against the Punjab government. NEW DELHI: Two separate blast-like incidents in Punjab within hours of each other triggered panic and set off a political slugfest on Tuesday.In Amritsar, a suspected explosion was reported around 10:50pm near the Khasa cantonment...

<img src="https://static.toiimg.com/thumb/msid-130841943,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4/130841943.jpg" alt="In 82 Bengal seats: No 3 got more votes than winner-loser margin" title=" . ” decoding=”async” fetchpriority=”high”> KOLKATA: In at least 82 assembly seats in Bengal, the candidate in the third position secured more votes than the winning margin, indicating that a sharp vote split between the second- and third-place holders took the...

Delhi Capitals players (Pic credit: IPL) NEW DELHI: Arun Jaitley Stadium was painted yellow on Tuesday evening. Everywhere the eye went, in every stand that celebrated the best that Delhi has ever produced, a trove of yellow jerseys was unmissable. They were there in groups and in small numbers, but their presence was hard to...

JALANDHAR: A blast took place in a scooter parked just outside the BSF Punjab Frontiers headquarters in Jalandhar around 8pm on Tuesday, injuring the vehicle’s owner.The nature of the blast was not yet clear and police were questioning the injured youth, Gurpreet Singh, who works with a courier firm.His father Kashmir Singh, who retired from...

<img src="https://static.toiimg.com/thumb/msid-130841711,imgsize-106486,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4/130841711.jpg" alt="Bengal woman's long journey: From domestic help to assembly" title=" Kalitha Majhi ” decoding=”async” fetchpriority=”high”> Kalitha Majhi KOLKATA: When domestic help-turned-BJP MLA Kalita Majhi returned home late Monday, she wasn’t greeted with any major celebration or a grand feast. “I received my winning certificate well past 10.30pm. I had barely eaten and was...

SURI: A flex put up at the entrance of Kankalitala temple in Bolpur on Monday evening declared that only Hindus would be allowed to offer puja at the shrine, one of Birbhum’s five Shakti Peethas. The banner was installed by unidentified youths claiming affiliation to ‘Sanatan Paksha’.“We have neither removed the banner nor endorsed it,”...