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JAMMU: The SIT Friday filed charge-sheet against the man accused of attempt to assassinate former J&K CM National Conference president Dr Farooq Abdullah during a wedding ceremony in Jammu on March 11 this year.The accused, Kamal Singh Jamwal, 63, is a Jammu resident.The seven-member SIT was constituted on March 14, days after the abortive bid…
NEW DELHI: You can choose your friends, but not your neighbours. In India’s case, the neighbour it inherited after Partition was Pakistan, a country with which its ties have been defined by wars, mistrust and recurring conflict ever since Independence.Whenever the two countries have entered direct military confrontation, the outcome has largely remained the same:…
NEW DELHI: Suvendu Adhikari’s rise as BJP’s choice for chief minister in West Bengal comes after years of positioning himself as the party’s most formidable anti-Mamata Banerjee face in the state. From defeating the Trinamool Congress supremo in her own den to leading the BJP’s aggressive Hindutva-driven campaign, Adhikari steadily emerged as the saffron party’s…
At 4:30 a.m., somewhere between Sri Lanka and India, the sea was pitch-black.The only thing visible ahead was a blinking light in the distance.Around them was nothing except dark water and silence.Every few strokes, something brushed past their bodies in the water. At one point, flying fish began colliding with them in the dark. They…
Special Intensive Revision (SIR) was definitely the biggest talking point of the West Bengal election. The final result was nothing short of a political earthquake, with BJP winning 207 seats, surpassing most expectations, the mighty TMC humbled to 80, and other parties reduced to a mere footnote.The anti-incumbency was so acute that it probably blew…
India’s forex reserves rise to $658.09 billion India’s foreign exchange reserves declined by $7.794 billion to $690.693 billion during the week ended May 1, according to data released by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Friday.The reserves had fallen by $4.82 billion in the previous reporting week ended April 24, taking the overall forex…
At 4:30 a.m., somewhere between Sri Lanka and India, the sea was pitch-black.The only thing visible ahead was a blinking light in the distance.Around them was nothing except dark water and silence.Every few strokes, something brushed past their bodies in the water. At one point, flying fish began colliding with them in the dark. They…
Amit Shah with Suvendu Adhikari (ANI photo) NEW DELHI: In what seemed largely impossible in 2021, became exhaustively debatable five years later. Can Suvendu Adhikari defeat Mamata in home turf Bhabanipur? The question gained political legitimacy in 2026 given the nail-biting contest in 2021 Nandigram battle, where Mamata had challenged her ex-protege.Taking the battle to…
Colonel Sofiya Qureshi (File photo) The Supreme Court on Friday sharply rebuked the Madhya Pradesh government over the delay in deciding sanction to prosecute minister Kunwar Vijay Shah for his remarks targeting Army officer Sofiya Qureshi after Operation Sindoor, saying “Enough is enough”.A bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi directed the…
Photo credit: X/@IndianFootball India kept alive their hopes of reaching the quarter-finals of the AFC Under-17 Women’s Asian Cup with a 4-0 win over Lebanon in their final Group B match at the Suzhou Taihu Football Sports Centre in China on Friday.Pritika Barman scored twice in the 6th and 85th minutes, while Alva Devi Senjam…
