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EC says SIR decisions taken unanimously by full commission NEW DELHI: Election Commission asserted Saturday that the decisions regarding special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls were taken unanimously by chief election commissioner Gyanesh Kumar and election commissioners S S Sandhu and Vivek Joshi.The statement came following the first meeting of the “full” Commission after…

Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Tarique Rahman DHAKA: The Tarique Rahman government has proposed replacing planned sculptures commemorating Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s March 7, 1971 speech and the surrender of Pak forces the same year with water fountains at Suhrawardy Udyan.The proposal is part of a plan to “rescope and repurpose” the Independence Monument project, according to…

Iran FM Araghchi says Tehran awaiting formal response to Hormuz proposal Tehran is awaiting a formal US response to its seven-day proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and end the conflict, Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi said on Sunday, despite US president Donald Trump publicly rejecting the plan.Araghchi said Tehran had taken note of…

Bangladesh ex-PM Sheikh Hasina DHAKA: The Tarique Rahman govt on Saturday came down heavily on supporters of the Awami League, whose activities are banned, after several hundred party activists were seen in Dhaka’s Dhanmondi marking party chief and former PM Sheikh Hasina’s birthday with dance, colour-throwing and fireworks.State minister for information and broadcasting YasserKhan Choudhury…

Pope Leo XIV, center, is welcomed by French President Emmanuel Macron, left, and his wife Brigitte Crowds stretched the length of Avenue des Champs-Elysees in Paris on Saturday, as Pope Leo urged Catholics to find happiness in faith, not material things, at the biggest event of his visit to France, an outdoor Mass with an…

NEW DELHI: With EPFO increasing the mandatory wage ceiling from Rs 15,000 a month to Rs 25,000, employees will now contribute Rs 3,000 (at 12% contribution of Rs 25,000 wage) towards their PF savings from Rs 1,800 earlier, govt said in a set of FAQs released. This will be along with a contribution of Rs…

Describing Pakistan as a serial practitioner of terrorism in his UNGA address, foreign minister S Jaishankar said that there must be no dilution of the zero-tolerance approach to the menace. Without naming Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif, who had raked up the Kashmir issue in his General Assembly speech on Friday, Jaishankar said he had misrepresented…

Representative Image (AI-generated) A team of scientists has found that playing the sounds of a healthy coral reef underwater can attract substantially more young fish to a reef site. In a study published in Scientific Reports, researchers used an underwater speaker in Kāne‘ohe Bay, O‘ahu, to broadcast recordings made at a healthy reef. Cameras then…

Rahul Gandhi calls CEC Gyanesh Kumar a ‘BJP headhunter’ NEW DELHI: With a top former bureaucrat of Kerala reportedly saying that chief election commissioner Gyanesh Kumar had approached him to contest election on BJP ticket, leader of the opposition Rahul Gandhi Saturday mocked that the poll panel chief was a headhunter for BJP and then…

After Daunte Wright’s 2021 death, a GoFundMe raised about $1.04 million (Image Credit: Stephen Maturen/ Getty Images) What began as a public effort to support Daunte Wright’s family after his death later became a dispute over more than $1 million in donations. A GoFundMe campaign launched following Wright’s fatal shooting in Minnesota in 2021 raised…