PM Modi with Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran on 23 May 2016. Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday sharply criticised the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government for its silence over the assassination of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, calling it an ‘abdication’ rather than neutrality.In an opinion piece published in...

The scenes of thespian Sivaji Ganesan pulling a hand-rickshaw in the film Babu (1971) and actor Om Puri wading through knee-deep rainwater with the vehicle in the streets of Kolkata in The City of Joy (1992) testify to forms of labour once prevalent in the country, stripped entirely of human dignity. The present generation in...

2 min readMar 3, 2026 09:19 AM IST The U.S. Treasury Department, State Department and the federal housing agency are terminating all use of Anthropic products, with the State Department saying it will switch to rival OpenAI, after President Donald Trump ordered government agencies to dump Anthropic’s technology, including its Claude platform. Trump on ⁠Friday...

Limited flight operations from parts of the Middle East to India resumed on Tuesday, even as widespread airspace disruptions continued across the region with the Iran-US conflict entering its fourth day. After mass cancellations over the weekend, select relief and scheduled services began operating under restricted conditions, offering partial relief to stranded passengers. IndiGo will...

US embassy in Riyadh. (Screenshot) Two drones struck the US embassy in Riyadh early Tuesday, triggering a small fire and causing minor damage to the building, Saudi authorities said, as Iran continued its wave of retaliatory strikes across the Gulf.In a statement, a spokesperson for Saudi Arabia’s defence ministry said preliminary assessments confirmed that the...

Bru (ethnic group) people show their ID cards as they wait to cast their votes for the second phase of Lok Sabha elections, at a special polling center set up about 170 Km away from Agartala. File Photo. | Photo Credit: PTI Preparations for by-election in Dharmanagar assembly constituency in north Tripura have begun expecting...

2 min readKolkataMar 3, 2026 05:04 AM IST An incident of alleged child abuse has surfaced from a preschool in Kolkata where a three-and-a-half-year-old student was locked inside a cupboard by two teachers as a form of “punishment”, leading to a police complaint, probe by the West Bengal Commission for Protection of Child Rights (WBCPCR),...

Amid rising tensions within the Karnataka Congress, Leader of the Opposition R Ashok on Monday accused Chief Minister Siddaramaiah of using state intelligence to monitor legislators believed to be aligned with Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar, deepening the party’s internal power struggle. ALLEGED SURVEILLANCE OF MLAS Speaking to reporters, Ashok claimed a team led by...

NEW DELHI: Amid fears of a shortage in crude supplies, govt is looking to nudge refiners to divert more auto fuel and LPG to the domestic market by cutting on exports and also increase cooking gas production so that there is no disruption in local supplies.While govt and oil companies insisted there’s no shortage, refiners...

The Rashtriya Janata Dal’s decision to contest the Rajya Sabha poll poses a challenge to the NDA’s bid to win all five seats. | Photo Credit: File Photo The political race for five Rajya Sabha seats in Bihar that go to the polls on March 16 has begun. The National Democratic Alliance (NDA), with a combined strength of 202 MLAs, can...