Foreign secretary Vikram Misri meets Marco Rubio NEW DELHI: US secretary of state Marco Rubio is set to visit India next month following a “productive” meeting with foreign secretary Vikram Misri in Washington, where both sides reviewed key aspects of the bilateral partnership, including trade, defence and the Quad.Misri, currently on a three-day visit to…
KOLKATA: Arrested in the Vidyasagar statue vandalism case in 2019, BJP’s Rakesh Singh filed his nomination on Thursday, the final day for submissions, from the Kolkata Port seat while carrying a portrait of Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar, a 19th-century social reformer and one of Bengal’s icons. The state govt had earlier informed Calcutta high court that Singh…
HYDERABAD: Telangana HC on Thursday reserved its order on the anticipatory bail plea filed by Congress’ Pawan Khera in connection with a case registered against him over his allegations against Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma‘s wife, Riniki Bhuyan Sharma.The matter came up before Justice K Sujana, who posted it to Friday for orders after recording…
CPM general secretary MA Baby has written to EC expressing “grave concern” over large-scale deletion of voters from Bengal poll rolls. In his letter to CEC Gyanesh Kumar, Baby said, “SIR represents a systematic exercise in mass disenfranchisement, marked by arbitrary criteria such as ‘logical consistency’ and increasing reliance on algorithm-driven exclusions.“ AJUP nominee files…
SILCHAR: BSF personnel deployed vehicles and opened border gates early on Thursday to help at least 70 families living beyond the barbed-wire fence along the India-Bangladesh border in Assam’s Sribhumi district reach polling stations and cast their votes, turning the exercise into a strong assertion of identity for residents of Karimganj South assembly constituency. The…
NEW DELHI: Delhi HC on Thursday upheld a trial court’s order declaring UK-based arms consultant Sanjay Bhandari a “fugitive economic offender” in connection with a money laundering case. Justice Neena Bansal Krishna found no merit in the appeal filed on behalf of the fugitive and dismissed it. In July 2025, a trial court had declared…
KOLKATA: The parents of Sunali Khatun, 26, the Bengal woman pushed into Bangladesh as an “illegal immigrant” last year, have their names on the voters list, strengthening her citizenship claims even as a legal battle continues for her husband and other kin packed off to the neighbouring country.Sunali’s mother, Jyotsna Bibi, was among the lakhs…
NEW DELHI: During a search in Kolkata at seven premises on Wednesday in an ongoing money laundering probe against Merlin group, a real estate developer, the ED has found the builder having associations with some senior politicians and bureaucrats from Bengal. “The role of these public servants and their financial transactions with the real estate…
KOLKATA: Bengal’s favourite ‘maachh-bhaat’ filled the poll plate on Thursday as PM Narendra Modi accused Trinamool Congress of failing to feed the piscine-loving state enough fish, seeking to turn on its head a debate triggered by CM Mamata Banerjee’s party portraying BJP as being “anti-non-vegetarian”. In Haldia, where he addressed the first of his three…
Record voter turnouts were seen in assembly polls in Assam, Kerala and Puducherry on Thursday, with Election Commission officials describing it as a “validation” of special intensive revision and special revision of electoral rolls and a sign of people’s “unflinching trust in the electoral process”. Polling surged past previous peaks – reaching all-time highs of…
