Sandeshkhali ED attack case | CBI summons nine close aides of Shahjahan Sheikh

Sandeshkhali ED attack case | CBI summons nine close aides of Shahjahan Sheikh

CBI officials take Trinamool Congress leader Sheikh Shahjahan, accused in the Sandeshkhali case, from Bhavani Bhawan (West Bengal Police headquarters), in Kolkata, on March 6, 2024. | Photo Credit: PTI The CBI has summoned nine close aides and associates of suspended TMC leader Shahjahan Sheikh to appear before the agency on March 11, officials said. … Read more

Morning Digest | Star India boxer Mary Kom announces retirement; keeping a close watch on Red Sea situation, says India, and more

Morning Digest | Star India boxer Mary Kom announces retirement; keeping a close watch on Red Sea situation, says India, and more

Indian boxer Mary Kom. | Photo Credit: PTI Star India boxer Mary Kom draws curtain on remarkable career Six-time World Champion and 2012 Olympic medallist Mangte Chungneijang Mary Kom on January 24 announced her retirement from boxing. Mary Kom hung her boxing gloves as the International Boxing Association’s (IBA) rules allow male and female boxers … Read more

Hattrick for SRK, 'Dunki' may close day 1 at Rs 35 crore: Trade experts

Hattrick for SRK, 'Dunki' may close day 1 at Rs 35 crore: Trade experts

The wait is finally over, as Shah Rukh Khan’s ‘Dunki’ was released in cinema halls earlier today, December 21. The Rajkumar Hirani film has received mixed reviews from critics even though fans seemed to have enjoyed the emotional drama. Also starring Taapsee Pannu, Vicky Kaushal, Boman Irani and Anil Grover, among others, ‘Dunki’ is said … Read more

NIA arrests two close aides of Canada-based ‘terrorist’ Arsh Dalla

NIA arrests two close aides of Canada-based ‘terrorist’ Arsh Dalla

A view of National Investigation Agency (NIA), in New Delhi. File | Photo Credit: Sushil Kumar Verma The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday arrested two alleged key associates of Canada-based “listed individual terrorist” Arshdeep Singh Gill aka Arsh Dalla, soon after they landed at the Indira Gandhi International Airport from Manila in Philippines. The … Read more

Former chief medical officer close to tears over pandemic deaths

Former chief medical officer close to tears over pandemic deaths

Mr Osborne – who was chancellor from 2010 to 2016 – said: “If we had not done that Britain would have been more exposed, not just to future things like the coronavirus pandemic, but indeed to the fiscal crisis which very rapidly followed in countries across Europe. “If we had not had a clear plan … Read more

PM Modi’s visit will affirm deep and close partnership between India and U.S., says White House

PM Modi’s visit will affirm deep and close partnership between India and U.S., says White House

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and U.S. President Joe Biden ahead of a G7 working session in Hiroshima, Japan. File | Photo Credit: PTI The upcoming Official State visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the U.S. will affirm the deep and close partnership between the two countries and the warm bonds of family and friendship … Read more

Covid: Was Matt Hancock right to push for schools to close?

Covid: Was Matt Hancock right to push for schools to close?

At the time, the vaccine programme had just started rolling out, and the teaching unions were once again putting up objections to having schools fully open, arguing it would put their members at risk. Although throughout the pandemic teachers were at no higher risk of being infected than average. Shop workers and health staff, for … Read more