2 min readKolkataUpdated: Mar 4, 2026 06:05 PM IST Veteran Trinamool Congress MP Saugata Roy launched a scathing attack on the Central Government’s foreign policy on Wednesday, accusing Prime Minister Narendra Modi of maintaining a “calculated silence” on the escalating West Asia war to avoid upsetting US President Donald Trump. Speaking to the media, Roy...

Pune Rural Police rescued the 17-year-old son of a local businessman within hours after he was kidnapped on Tuesday, leading to the arrest of two suspects allegedly involved in a Rs 5 crore ransom plot. The incident occurred when the minor was leaving one of his father’s wine shops in the afternoon. As the shop’s...

US President Donald Trump (AP photo) Though he campaigned against the foreign entanglements of past presidents, President Donald Trump has shown little hesitation in deploying American military power during his second term. Since returning to the White House in 2025, Trump has authorised a string of operations stretching from the Middle East and Africa to...

Kerala Minister for General Education V. Sivankutty releases the atlas ‘Resource Maps for Urban Planning – Attingal Municipality’ by handing it over to teacher coordinator S. Suresh Kumar in the presence of students on Wednesday.   | Photo Credit: special arrangement What if a local body planning to improve agricultural productivity in its limits knew...

2 min readKolkataUpdated: Mar 4, 2026 01:57 PM IST The Election Commission of India (ECI) has published a final voter list prepared after the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls in West Bengal. If your name is missing from the list, you still have an opportunity to apply for its inclusion. How much time do...

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has named Ramdas Athawale, Vinod Tawde, Maya Chintaman and Ramrao Wadkute as its candidates for the March 16 Rajya Sabha biennial elections in Maharashtra, signalling an early and assertive move in the contest for seven Upper House seats. The nominations, cleared by the party’s Central Election Committee, underline the BJP’s...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman asserted employees have no say in US military operations, even after a Pentagon deal for classified AI deployment. The move followed rival Anthropic’s blacklisting, sparking internal and external criticism over timing and optics. Altman emphasized the Pentagon respects OpenAI’s safety measures but retains operational control, while also acknowledging competitors might offer...

The role and actions of Governors have once again become a subject of political discourse in the country, especially in the context of their conduct in non-BJP, Opposition-ruled States. Recently, a High-Level Committee on Union-State Relations, constituted by the Tamil Nadu Government and chaired by Justice (retired) Kurian Joseph, recommended ways to ensure Governors do...

Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and Home Minister G Parameshwara have refuted Opposition leaders’ allegations that the Congress government was using its intelligence department to keep tabs on its own legislators—including phone tapping—in the wake of a power struggle between the CM and Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar. “After our party came to power, unemployed...

A stray dog reportedly mutilated a man’s body inside the mortuary of a government-run hospital in Telangana’s Mahabubnagar on Monday, triggering widespread outrage after disturbing visuals of the incident surfaced on social media. The episode, reported from the Area Hospital in Jadcherla town, has raised serious concerns about security lapses and infrastructure deficiencies in public...