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NEW DELHI: The death of at least seven elephants after being hit by a high-speed passenger train in Assam on Saturday has taken the toll of such fatalities since 2019-20 to 94. This was the fourth such accident this year. The last two accidents were reported from Jalpaiguri in West Bengal, sources said, adding that...

Image: IANS NEW DELHI: Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG), in recent reports, flagged how railways failed to boost its non-fare revenue despite holding vast stretches of vacant land and how dues amounting to Rs 4,087 crore from 269 private siding owners remained unrecovered by different zones till March 2023, pointing to weak monitoring and enforcement...

File photo KOLKATA: PM Narendra Modi used a fog-forced virtual rally in Bengal Saturday to pursue two parallel damage-control efforts – shoring up support among Matua voters unsettled by an electoral roll revision and repairing political fallout from his recent “Bankim da” reference in Parliament.PM Modi was to address a public meeting at Taherpur in...

GUWAHATI: PM Modi transformed his Guwahati rally on Saturday into a fierce political offensive against Congress, accusing it of “committing a sin” by preparing to join hands with the Muslim League and the British in a pre-Independence conspiracy to make Assam a part of what would later become “East Pakistan”.Modi said Congress had conspired to...

Europe’s biggest aerospace company Airbus reportedly wants to move away from two of the biggest American technology companies — Google and Microsoft. According to a report in Register, Airbus is preparing to tender a major contract to migrate mission-critical workloads to a digitally sovereign European cloud. The aerospace manufacturer uses products and services of Google...

Los Angeles Lakers vs Los Angeles Clippers preview (Image via NBA) Tonight’s NBA game will pit the Los Angeles Lakers (19-7) against the Los Angeles Clippers (6-21). The tipoff at Intuit Dome in Inglewood, California, is scheduled for 10:30 p.m. EST. NBA TV will carry the game live. The over/under is set at 230.5 total...

A mob broke through security barricades and once again entered the Parliament building on Saturday following the funeral of youth leader Sharif Osman Hadi, authorities said, amid heightened tensions in the Bangladeshi capital.Bangladesh held Hadi’s funeral earlier in the day, drawing a large crowd to Dhaka under extra-tight security arrangements. His death has sparked unrest...

Image: IANS MUMBAI: Congress Maharashtra in-charge Ramesh Chennithala held a meeting with local party functionaries in Mumbai and announced that the party would not form an alliance with the Shiv Sena-UBT in the BMC elections. However, this will not apply to civic elections in 28 other places.For the BMC, he said, the Congress would instead...

SANGJURAI: Seven elephants, including four calves, were killed, and another calf was injured when the Delhi-bound Sairang (Mizoram)-New Delhi Rajdhani Express collided with a herd of wild jumbos at Sangjurai village in the Jamunamukh-Kampur section of the Northeast Frontier Railway in central Assam’s Hojai district.The locomotive and five coaches of the train were also derailed...

file photo NEW DELHI: The home ministry, in a notification issued on Friday, earmarked 50% of the constable-level vacancies in the Border Security Force (BSF) by direct recruitment, for ex-Agniveers, marking a five-fold increase in their earlier proposed quota of 10 per cent.Amending the BSF, General Duty Cadre (Non-Gazetted) Recruitment Rules, 2015, the home ministry...