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US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he was halting ‘Project Freedom’ as Washington seeks to secure a broader agreement with Iran to end the ongoing Middle East conflict. He also cited requests from Pakistan and other countries for the move.The operation is an US military-backed initiative launched just a day earlier to escort and...

MOHALI: A major accident was averted at Shaheed Bhagat Singh International Airport on Tuesday after a power bank allegedly caught fire inside an IndiGo flight that had arrived from Hyderabad, triggering panic among passengers. Six people were injured and taken to hospital.According to airport officials, IndiGo flight 6E 108 from Hyderabad landed at Chandigarh airport...

Manoj Tiwary (left) Former India cricketer and outgoing Trinamool Congress MLA Manoj Tiwary on Tuesday said his association with the party has ended. He alleged that he was denied a ticket from Howrah’s Shibpur constituency because he refused to pay Rs 5 crore.The 40-year-old, who is Bengal’s highest run-scorer in first-class cricket with 10,195 runs,...

Amit Shah and Suvendu Adhikari (Image/ANI) NEW DELHI: Pitting Suvendu Adhikari — who defeated CM Mamata Banerjee in his turf, Nandigram, in 2021 — against her in Bhabanipur was only the beginning of Union minister Amit Shah’s determined bid to take down the TMC supremo in her backyard. What followed was precise execution of gruelling...

NEW DELHI: A nine-judge Supreme Court bench led by CJI Surya Kant on Tuesday said the SC in 2006 should have outrightly “thrown in the dustbin’ the original PIL that led to quashing of Sabarimala Ayyappa Temple custom restricting entry of women in the 10 to 50 age group.“All India Young Lawyers Association’, which filed...

SIVAGANGA: In the end, every vote made it count, literally, in Tirupattur constituency in Sivaganga district when TVK candidate R Seenivasa Sethupathy defeated DMK minister K R Periyakaruppan by just one vote in the Tamil Nadu assembly election. While Sethupathy secured 83,375 votes, Periyakaruppan polled 83,374 votes.The fight, which dragged on till 1.30am, was between...

KOLKATA: The assembly poll verdict in Bengal triggered a spiral of violence across the state, leaving at least four people dead, dozens injured and party offices ransacked, as rival cadres from Trinamool Congress and BJP clashed in multiple districts overnight.Two deaths were reported in Kolkata within 24 hours. In Beleghata, Trinamool poll agent Biswajit Pattanaik,...

This will be the second round of questioning by ED of Sujit Bose (right), former fire minister who was defeated Monday, and Rathin Ghosh, food minister who won from Madhyamgram seat NEW DELHI: As it reels under the trauma of the poll debacle, more trouble seems headed TMC’s way with ED set to question party...

Vande Mataram (Image/ANI) NEW DELHI: In its first decision after sweeping the Bengal polls, Cabinet Tuesday approved a proposal to amend the Prevention of Insults to National Honour Act to put National Song Vande Mataram, composed by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, on the same footing as the National Anthem, Jana Gana Mana. At present, the law...

Suvendu Adhikari NEW DELHI: The drill for formation of a BJP govt in WB has kicked in, with the outgoing assembly set to be dissolved anytime and newly elected BJP MLAs likely to endorse party’s CM pick before May 9. Home minister Amit Shah, who scripted BJP’s landslide win, is likely to preside over the...