NEW DELHI/KOLKATA: Continuing its administrative and police shake-up in assembly poll-bound states, Election Commission on Tuesday replaced additional directors general (ADGs) of South Bengal and North Bengal regions, four police commissioners, a deputy commissioner and a dozen SPs in West Bengal. In Kerala, it directed the appointment of an IAS officer and two Kerala Administrative...

Lt Col Shrikant Prasad Purohit. File image. | Photo Credit: PTI The Armed Forces Tribunal (AFT) on Monday (March 16, 2026) stayed the retirement of Colonel Shrikant Prasad Purohit, acquitted in the 2008 Malegaon blast case, pending a decision on his statutory complaint on promotion and service benefits. Colonel Purohit had approached the tribunal seeking...

President Donald Trump speaks during a Friends of Ireland luncheon for Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin in the U.S. Capitol, on St. Patrick’s Day in Washington. (AP Photo) US President Donald Trump, while meeting with Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin in the Oval Office on Tuesday, said that Washington is not ready yet to leave...