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JAGDALPUR: With Left-wing extremism (LWE) crushed, the camps set up by the security forces in the remote Bastar region to run anti-Naxal operations are being repurposed to serve the local population with doorstep delivery of a range of govt benefits, right from Aadhaar and ration card generation to banking and healthcare services.Union home minister Amit…

Police have filed an FIR against two cops for allegedly submitting the ‘statement’ of a dead man in connection with the murder of a US-based woman in Ludhiana, reports Payal Dhawan.Former Dehlon SHO Sukhjinder Singh and head constable Sanjiv Kumar were charged with evidence tampering, distorting official records and fabricating documents. Rupinder Kaur (72), was…

KOLKATA: The civic authorities on Monday initiated a probe into the properties owned by Abhishek Banerjee and some of his associates, with officials going to several of the TMC national general secretary’s properties, including ‘Shantiniketan’ in the city, and pasting notices under Section 401 of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation Act, 1980.The notice is KMC’s first…

KOLKATA: Bengal’s BJP govt moved Monday to stamp out religion-based aid such as honorariums for mosque functionaries and priests, with CM Suvendu Adhikari asserting that “it was not the govt’s job to distribute doles to imams, muezzins and purohits”.“Financial assistance to imams, muezzins and purohits is being discontinued. A fresh notification will be issued listing…

Defence minister Rajnath Singh, who is on a two-nation tour to boost defence cooperation, landed in Vietnam capital Hanoi on Monday.Before leaving for Hanoi, Rajnath posted on X, “Today, 18th May, I shall be reaching Hanoi. Looking forward to visiting Vietnam and South Korea this week to further expand the scope of our engagement. I…

PUNE/NEW DELHI: CBI arrested Shivraj Raghunath Motegaonkar, the director of Maharashtra-based Renukai Career Centre (RCC), alleging he circulated leaked NEETUG 2026 questions through coaching networks and “mock tests” conducted before examination, report Gitesh Shelke, Rajshekhar Jha & Koushiki Saha. This is the 10th arrest by CBI, which has now widened its probe, bringing more than…

NEW DELHI: The three-member committee headed by SC judge Aravind Kumar, which was looking into allegations of corruption against Allahabad HC judge Yashwant Varma, submitted its report to LS Speaker Om Birla Monday. While Varma sent his resignation to President Murmu last month, his name continues to figure among judges of Allahabad HC on its…

NEW DELHI: Supreme Court seems split on the issue of bail and right to liberty, enshrined as a fundamental right. An SC bench Monday expressed “serious reservations” on the court’s verdict denying bail to Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam, saying it didn’t follow a larger bench judgment — which is “law of the land” and…

A rare strain of the Ebola virus has infected an American doctor in the Democratic Republic of Congo as the outbreak continues to spread across the country and into neighboring Uganda.The World Health Organization on Sunday declared the outbreak a public health emergency of international concern. More than 300 suspected cases and 118 deaths have…

Sam Altman 1, Elon Musk 0 Elon Musk has lost his $150 billion lawsuit against OpenAI. A nine-person jury in Oakland on Monday ruled unanimously that the world’s richest man waited too long to sue—and on that basis cleared CEO Sam Altman, president Greg Brockman and OpenAI itself of his core allegation that they “stole…