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KOLKATA/BURDWAN: West Bengal Police STF on Saturday arrested suspected terrorist Hamim Mondal’s girlfriend, Arpita Sarkar, from Sahibganj in Jharkhand and said they are probing the duo’s alleged plan to foment trouble at Jantar Mantar, the site of recent student protest.Hamim, who was allegedly tracking Bengal chief minister Suvendu Adhikari, was arrested from a residential township…

SHIMLA/PITHIRAGARH: India and China resumed traditional border trade Saturday through Lipulekh in Uttarakhand and Shipki La in Himachal Pradesh after nearly six years, restoring two key Himalayan trade routes that had remained closed since the Covid-19 pandemic.At Lipulekh in Uttarakhand’s Pithoragarh district, the first batch of 16 traders and four support staff crossed into Tibet…

India continued its strong run in boxing at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow on Saturday, winning five gold medals, with Arundhati Choudhary completing the tally after beating England’s Chantelle Reid in the women’s 70kg final.Arundhati defeated Reid by a unanimous 5-0 decision to give India its fifth boxing gold of the competition.Earlier in the day,…

Rubin Observatory stacked hundreds of images from its 3.2-billion-pixel camera; the final view contains over half a million galaxies and 50,000 stars. (NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory:NOIRLab:SLAC:AURA) Astronomers have just got their clearest look yet at one of the most studied patches of sky in the world. The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, based in Chile,…

Preeti Pawar, Ankush Panghal India signed off from the boxing competition at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow with a record haul of seven gold medals after Narender won silver in the men’s 90+kg category on Saturday.Narender was outclassed by England’s Damar Thomas in the men’s 90+kg final, losing by a unanimous 0-5 decision to settle…

SURAT: A Surat-based RTI activist on Saturday said he had sought an inquiry into the finances of CJP founder Abhijeet Dipke’s father, a retired government employee who had funded his son’s education abroad.Activist Amit Tiwari also said he had written to the Election Commission of India and the Central GST authorities regarding the legal defence…

ALIGARH: The body of a 16-year-old girl was exhumed from a grave in Aligarh on Saturday, 52 days after she was buried, after suspicions were raised over the circumstances of her death, news agency PTI said on Saturday.The exhumation was carried out at Shah Jamal graveyard under the Kotwali police station area in the presence…

File photo: Middle East security situation US embassies across several Middle Eastern countries on Saturday urged American citizens to consider leaving the region or be prepared to depart at short notice, warning of the possibility of an “unforeseen escalation” in the conflict involving Iran.The security alert was issued by US embassies in Bahrain, Iraq, Israel,…

Vijay’s son Jason Sanjay says father encouraged him to build his own identity, addresses family rumours: ‘People make assumptions about us’ Jason Sanjay, son of actor-turned-politician and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Vijay, has opened up about his father’s historic election victory, his directorial debut, and the constant public scrutiny surrounding their family.Jason, who recently made…

NEW DELHI: The Centre has announced a series of changes for the NEET-PG exam to be held later in the month, including expanding the choice of test locations, giving candidates more time to plan travel, and increasing the time available per question.The reforms are aimed at making the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test for Postgraduate (NEET-PG) process…