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KOLKATA: Bengal voters under adjudication waited through Monday for the promised first supplementary electoral roll as Election Commission kept revising the deadline before finally pushing it to midnight. The list with around 29 lakh names was finally uploaded at 11.45pm.Supreme Court, which had on March 10 ordered the publication of supplementary voters’ lists, will take…
There’s something strange about pain that waits until night. You can get through the day mostly fine, distracted by work, noise, movement, people. And then the lights go off. You lie down. And suddenly, there it is. Aching. Throbbing. Sharp. Persistent. Pain that feels louder because everything else has gone quiet.This kind of pain is…
Following the squad announcement, Naqvi addressed the Pakistan players and head coach Mike Hesson, clarifying the board’s stand. “We are waiting for the government’s advice and whatever the government tells us to do we will do it,” he told the team. He added that if the government advises against participation, the PCB will comply. During…
Metro commuters on Bengaluru’s Yellow Line are set to get some relief during peak hours, as waiting times have been reduced following the induction of a seventh train into passenger service by Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL) on January 15.With the additional train, peak-hour services from Monday to Saturday will now operate at a…
A couple in Mumbai faced an inferno on the 7th floor of their apartment MUMBAI: In a gritty and near-miraculous escape, a couple, aged 58 and 51, managed to survive a fire that broke out in the early hours of Wednesday in their building. Trapped in their seventh-floor apartment in Bhoomi Classic CHS, near Inorbit…
The fate of two hostages, Bipin Joshi and Tamir Nimrodi, remains uncertain after their names were not included on the list of 20 living captives published by Hamas for release on Monday under the latest Gaza peace deal.Neither Hamas nor Israel has confirmed whether the two are alive or dead, reported ABC news.On Monday, the…
In a recent ruling, the Allahabad High Court ordered a public sector bank to pay INR 1 lakh compensation to a petitioner, who waited for years for it, instead of giving him a job on compassionate grounds after the untimely death of his father– who was an employee in the bank. While the court observed…
MS Dhoni’s arrival attracted huge crowds both at the airport and the stadium he was at to inaugurate (Screengrabs) Madurai witnessed scenes of frenzy on Thursday as former India captain MS Dhoni arrived in the city to inaugurate a newly built international-standard cricket stadium. Several hundreds of fans thronged the Madurai airport, chanting “Dhoni, Dhoni”…
Omkar has been raiding banana plantations and destroying crops in Goa’s villages close to Maharashtra It is an elephantine problem that has brought together three neighbours — Goa, Karnataka and Maharashtra — to launch a concerted operation to rescue and rehabilitate a 10-year-old elephant Omkar. It is a gargantuan effort that will involve at least…
