2-Year-Long Hunt Spanned Several Countries, Involved Int’l Agencies New Delhi: Central agencies and NCB secured the return of international drug trafficker and D Company henchman Mohammed Salim Dola Tuesday morning, ending a two-year-long manhunt that spanned several countries. In an operation monitored by the home ministry, he was flown from Istanbul on a special aircraft...
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Phase-1 vote surge new poll rider in TMC’s comfort zone
Birbhum: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee speaks during the inauguration of various development projects, in Birbhum. (PTI Photo) The second phase of vote to elect who will govern Bengal for the next five years has now got one extra unlikely parameter after the first phase’s stupendous voting percentage of more than 93%: how many...
Bengal polls Encounter specialist’s visit triggers ‘Singham versus Pushpa’ duel
IPS officer Ajay Pal Sharma Kolkata: A ‘Singham’ versus ‘Pushpa’ rivalry played out at Falta, around 40km from Kolkata, on Tuesday.The stage, it seems, was set on Monday, when IPS officer and DIG Ajay Pal Sharma, an “encounter specialist” popularly known as ‘Singham’ on his home turf in UP, visited the house of Falta’s TMC...
Bengal turns fortress for phase-II poll: 2.3 lakh CAPF & 38,297 state cops in place
An armoured vehicle and CAPF personnel on patrol in Kolkata Tuesday Kolkata: West Bengal’s final phase of assembly polls unfolds under a security grid rarely seen in Indian elections, stretching across 142 constituencies in seven districts. Numbers define the scale – over 2.3 lakh Central Armed Police Forces personnel, 38,297 state police, 142 general observers,...
West Bengal polls: Tribunals restore 1,468 votes, delete six names ahead of second phase
Representational image Kolkata: Supreme Court-mandated appellate tribunals hearing voter deletions during EC’s SIR of electoral rolls in West Bengal restored voting rights of 1,468 people before Wednesday’s second phase of polls, taking total reinstatements across two rounds in the state to 1,607, officials said on Tuesday.Deletions in second phase stood at six, pushing cumulative removals...
Dianna Russini deletes shared playlist as Mike Vrabel distances from scandal
Mike Vrabel, the New England Patriots’ head coach, has reported back to work even though his alleged affair with the former New York Times’ NFL reporter and insider, Dianna Russini, continues to take new turns every minute.As neither of them has accepted that they were engaged in an inappropriate relationship with one another, it seems...
‘Lone wolf’ asks 2 guards their faith, stabs them
Accused Zaid Zubaid Ansari Mira Bhayander: A day after a 31-year-old man was arrested for stabbing two security guards at an under-construction site in Mira Road on the outskirts of Mumbai, it emerged that the attacker had allegedly asked them to identify their religion – besides asking one of them to recite the ‘kalma’ –...
Friendly fire? Agent injured in Trump assassination attempt may have been shot by own colleague
A Secret Service agent injured during an assassination attempt on US President Donald Trump may have been struck by a bullet fired by a fellow officer.The incident took place last week at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in Washington, where a gunman tried to force his way into the venue. During a court hearing,...
BJP sweeps Gujarat municipal polls, takes all 15 corporations
BJP leaders celebrate landslide win in Gujarat local body polls Ahmedabad: The governing BJP yet again established its supremacy in Gujarat on Tuesday, sweeping all 15 municipal corporations and 78 of the 84 municipalities, reiterating its complete dominance in cities and towns.It also performed strongly in rural regions, winning 33 of the 34 district panchayats...
Lizard in paneer tikka? Bengaluru cabbie hospitalised after bakery visit
BENGALURU: A 32-year-old man claimed to have found a lizard in the paneer tikka roll he got at a bakery near Housing Board on Magadi Main Road. He later fell sick and had to be hospitalised.According to the complaint filed by Deepu NK, a resident of Agrahara Dasarahalli and a cab driver, he skipped lunch...
