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Adhir Chowdhury condemns Congress leader, son’s murder NEW DELHI: Senior Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Sunday strongly condemned the murder of party leader Anisur Rahman and his son in Nadia on Independence Day, calling it a “heinous incident” and raising questions over the law and order situation in BJP-led West Bengal.In a social media…

Ajay Devgn, Shah Rukh Khan and Tiger Shroff (R) File photo NEW DELHI: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued notices to Bollywood actors Shah Rukh Khan, Ajay Devgn and Tiger Shroff over advertisements for a chewing elaichi brand.In Friday’s notice, dated August 14, the FDA said the advertisements featuring the actors violate provisions…

NEW DELHI: President Droupadi Murmu, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, vice president C P Radhakrishnan and other senior leaders on Sunday paid tribute to former Prime Minister and Bharat Ratna Atal Bihari Vajpayee at his memorial, Sadaiv Atal, in New Delhi on his eighth death anniversary.Defence minister Rajnath Singh, BJP president Nitin Nabin, Lok Sabha speaker…

PM Narendra Modi saluting the Indian contingent taking part in the Bastille Day march past at Champs-Élysées in Paris in 2023. (Image credit: PMO) When Prime Minister Narendra Modi met French President Emmanuel Macron in Nice on June 14, 2026, it was more than another bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit. In…

Temperatures exceeded 100 degrees Fahrenheit across large parts of Spain and Italy in late June Around 16,000 more people than usual died across Europe during a week of extreme heat in late June, according to a report based on European mortality data. The sharp rise in deaths came as temperatures surged across much of the…

Ashis Banerjee (File Photo) (Image Credit: X) KOLKATA: Asish Banerjee, the former deputy speaker of the West Bengal assembly, was found dead on Sunday morning at a Trinamool Congress office in Rampurhat, Birbhum district.His body was found hanging and was sent for a post-mortem examination, police said. The circumstances surrounding his death are not yet…

Benjamin Netanyahu has yet to be endorsed by Donald Trump Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud is trailing former Israel Defence Forces (IDF) chief Gadi Eisenkot’s opposition Yashar party ahead of the October 27 parliamentary elections, according to a pre-election survey, raising the prospect of a setback for the veteran leader.Although neither side is projected…

Murky floodwaters swallowed streets and surrounded homes in Indiana, US At least six people, including a 4-year-old kid, died after powerful storms and flooding swept across Indiana, state officials said on Saturday. Emergency crews used boats to rescue residents from rising waters in Indianapolis.Flooding was particularly severe along the White River in Indianapolis. Footages showed…

Joël Lapointe was doing something entirely ordinary. The Canadian amateur astronomer had Google Maps open in 2024, scrolling through Quebec’s Côte-Nord region to plan hiking routes for a camping trip. Somewhere north of Magpie, around Lake Marsal, the terrain stopped looking like terrain. It looked like a ring—a near-perfect circular scar pressed into the forest,…

Qatar denies detaining three Iranian pilots (representative image) Qatar on Saturday denied Iranian claims that its forces were holding three Iranian military pilots captured after their fighter jets were downed during a March operation, saying the allegations were misleading and came at a sensitive time amid efforts to ease regional tensions.Qatari foreign ministry spokesperson Majed…