Spread the love Rajya Sabha MP Sushmita Dev’s resignation from the TMC deals a significant blow to the party’s national ambitions, particularly in the northeast NEW DELHI: The resignation of Rajya Sabha MP Sushmita Dev from the Trinamool Congress (TMC) has dealt another major blow to the party at a time when it is grappling with an unprecedented internal rebellion...
Battling medical store’s eyedrop blunder, depression: How UP’s Subhi became India Girls’ No. 1
Spread the love Subhi Gupta (Special Arrangements) NEW DELHI: Imagine it is your first international chess tournament on your own. Your parents have burned a hole in their pockets to take you to the scenic country of Uzbekistan. There, you are supposed to play the toughest of opponents from across the globe. You reach the venue, and you sit at...
Modi surpasses Nehru as longest-serving elected PM: Tracing the road to 4,399 days in 12 charts
Spread the love Narendra Modi is now India’s longest-serving elected Prime Minister. ‘Modi hai to Mumkin hai’, a popular catchphrase that has become synonymous with the BJP-led NDA government over the years. Indeed, this idea of “achieving the impossible” has often been projected as a hallmark of Prime Minister Narendra Modi‘s 12-year-long tenure at the helm. But even many of...
Oracle founder Larry Ellison loses more than $47 billion in less than 7 days
Spread the love Larry Ellison has lost more than $47 billion in personal wealth in less than a week as shares of Oracle continued to fall ahead of the company’s earnings report. Ellison’s fortune dropped from about $296 billion last Tuesday, June 2 to around $249.7 billion, according to Forbes’ Real-Time Billionaires List. The fall comes as investors pull back...
Another big blow to Mamata, TMC MP Sushmita Dev resigns from Rajya Sabha
Spread the love NEW DELHI: In another setback for the Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo Mamata Banerjee, party MP Sushmita Dev has resigned from the Rajya Sabha, PTI reported citing sources.This comes shortly after the TMC MP met Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, triggering speculation about her joining BJP.In her resignation letter, Dev wrote, “I do hereby resign from the...
South Africa shooting: Over 12 killed, 9 wounded in Johannesburg after gunmen open fired
Spread the love At least 12 people were killed and nine others injured after gunmen opened fire at an informal settlement in Cleveland, east of Johannesburg, South Africa.The South African Police Service said officers responded to reports of a shooting in progress late on Tuesday evening at around 11.10 pm at the Jumpers informal settlement, where they found multiple victims...
NASA announces Artemis III crew; taps U.S. astronauts, Italian for mission with SpaceX, Blue Origin mooncraft
Spread the love NASA named three U.S. astronauts and an Italian astronaut on Tuesday (June 9, 2026) to serve as the crew for its next Artemis mission, a spacecraft docking demonstration in Earth’s orbit next year that will test moon landers from Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin for the first time in space. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman,...
Bharathiraja, the director who took Tamil cinema beyond studio walls, dies at 84
Spread the love 3 min readChennaiJun 10, 2026 11:47 AM IST Bharathiraja, the filmmaker who took Tamil cinema out of its studios and into the dusty fields, village lanes and emotional landscapes of rural South India, died on Wednesday in Chennai after prolonged ill health. He was 84.His death came less than two years after the loss of his son,...
Heated moment! Rana angers Inglis during 1st ODI – Watch
Spread the love Nahid Rana angers Josh Inglis (Screengrab) Bangladesh pacer Nahid Rana produced a match-winning spell and briefly ignited tempers as the hosts stunned Australia by 86 runs via the DLS method in the opening ODI of the three-match series.The fiery fast bowler was at the centre of attention during Australia’s chase when he dismissed stand-in captain Josh Inglis...
‘Hole at bottom, vessel sinking’: Indian crew sends SOS after US missile strike
Spread the love NEW DELHI: An Indian-crewed oil tanker sent desperate distress calls seeking “immediate help” after it was struck by a US missile off the coast of Oman, leaving the vessel on fire and taking on water.“US Navy attack, the missile on our engine room. We have hole at the bottom … 24 crew. All crew Indian. Please help...
