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Rahul Gandhi, Indira Gandhi, Jyoti Basu, Mamata Banerjee (File photo) NEW DELHI: Nearly 50 years have passed since the Congress party’s Indira Gandhi era, when stalwart Siddhartha Shankar Ray helmed West Bengal as chief minister. His tenure ended in 1977, giving way to a sweeping communist surge led by veteran Marxist Jyoti Basu, who would…
Astronomers have found that Earth has acquired a new cosmic partner, a tiny asteroid named 2025 PN7, which will orbit with our planet for approximately 50 years. Though described by some as a “mini-moon,” scientists clarify that it is not actually a satellite like our Moon. Rather, it’s a quasi-moon, an uncommon variety of asteroid…
A file photo of Mallojula Venugopal Rao alias Sonu Bhupati. NAGPUR: Senior most guerrilla Mallojula Venugopal Rao, alias Sonu ‘Bhupati’, 69, the Central Committee powerhouse and politburo firebrand who had earlier appealed for a truce, surrendered at Gadchiroli police headquarters in Maharashtra on Tuesday with 62 cadres, signaling the end of state’s five-decade-long Maoist insurgency….
