Spread the love BJP leaders, however, denied that the accused were party workers and claimed the incident was linked to a different dispute (AI Image) KOLKATA: An eight-month-pregnant woman delivered a stillborn baby after she was allegedly assaulted by suspected BJP workers during an attack on her husband in West Bengal’s Cooch Behar district, police said on Saturday.Police said two...
Textile industry welcomes customs duty exemption extension for cotton
Spread the love With daily cotton arrivals remaining dull at fewer than 70,000 bales a day during the first month of the current cotton marketing season (October 2026 to September 2027) and the Government of India deciding to extend the customs duty exemption on cotton till the end of December, the textile industry hopes there will be adequate cotton to...
What you need to know about losing visceral fat
Spread the love Wellness coach Tanvi Parikh recently spoke about reducing visceral fat naturally, questioning whether the familiar advice to “eat less, move more” is enough to tackle stubborn belly fat. She noted that visceral fat—the fat stored deep inside the abdomen around organs such as the liver—is different from the fat that sits just beneath the skin. But reducing...
Beyond Cyclone Arnab: can India tackle the growing cost of natural disasters? | Insight India
Spread the love Cyclone Arnab hit the coast of Andhra Pradesh this week. In preparation, authorities evacuated people, halted transportation services and alerted disaster response forces. This is just the first cyclone of the northeast monsoon season. As climate change threatens to bring increasingly intense cyclones and other natural disasters, will India’s current disaster management programme be able to handle...
Oppn ‘impeaches’ CEC in ‘mock Parliament’, but what will it take to remove him for real
Spread the love NEW DELHI: The opposition on Saturday unanimously passed a “resolution” to remove Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar over allegations of irregularities in the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls during a “mock Parliament” organised at Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge’s residence.Former Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar presided over the proceedings, with several MPs and activists supporting the demand...
Zakir Naik gets schooled by Malala’s father for defending Taliban on girls’ education
Spread the love Zakir Naik said that claims around Afghan women being denied higher education were “wrong and a misinformation”. NEW DELHI: Fugitive Islamic preacher Zakir Naik was criticised for defending access to education for women under Afghanistan’s Taliban regime, which has notoriously restricted the equal rights of Afghan women.Naik, booked under India’s stringent UAPA for terror-linked activities, said: “Everything...
Zakir Naik gets schooled by Malala’s father for defending Taliban on girls’ education
Spread the love Zakir Naik said that claims around Afghan women being denied higher education were “wrong and a misinformation”. NEW DELHI: Fugitive Islamic preacher Zakir Naik was criticised for defending access to education for women under Afghanistan’s Taliban regime, which has notoriously restricted the equal rights of Afghan women.Naik, booked under India’s stringent UAPA for terror-linked activities, said: “Everything...
Binance replenishes 90% of stolen crypto, says it will absorb financial losses
Spread the love Binance has restored 90 percent of the cryptocurrency assets lost due to a recent security breach. The exchange has pledged to handle the financial repercussions internally, ensuring customers are unaffected. Binance has replenished 90 per cent of the cryptocurrency assets stolen in a massive security breach, with the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange saying that it will absorb...
‘Secret meets on foreign soil’: PM Modi says opposition conspiring to divide nation
Spread the love PM Modi alleged that “certain forces inside the country were busy trying to create instability by spreading lies and rumours”. NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday staunchly criticised the opposition for “choosing to be an obstructionists” after a decade of despair and frustration emanating from the intermittent electoral routs.PM Modi said the opposition has made obstruction...
Haunted, but hardly explored: India’s untapped ghost-tourism economy
Spread the love India’s haunted destinations offer an untapped tourism opportunity, with paranormal experiences yet to become a mainstream travel attraction. (AI-generated image) India’s ghosts have a customer service problem.There is almost an abundance of local places which have a reputation of being haunted in each and every state.There are ghost villages where nobody is quite sure why everyone left....
