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‘2025 will be remembered for India’s focus on reforms’: PM Modi

PM Modi NEW DELHI: The outgoing year (2025) will be remembered for India’s focus on reforms as a continuous national mission, PM Narendra Modi said on Tuesday, asserting that his govt prioritised collaboration over control and Read More

‘Was radicalising youths’: Assam Police busts terror cell linked to Bangladesh; 11 arrested

Agartala: Tripura Police, in a joint operation with Assam Police STF and central agencies, arrest suspected JMB offshoot member Jagir Miah from a border village, in Agartala. Read More

‘At any time in legal emergencies’: CJI Surya Kant wants ‘approachable’ people’s courts; lists his priorities

CJI Surya Kant (File photo) NEW DELHI: If a citizen faces a legal emergency or is threatened with arrest by probe agencies at unearthly hours, the person will be able to seek a hearing from constitutional courts even in the dead of Read More

West Bengal SIR deaths: Families file complaints filed against CEC, state poll body chief; Election Commission reacts

Bengal SIR: Durjan Majhi, who died by suicide hours before SIR hearing; Jamat Ali, who died at home after getting a hearing notice; a young mother at a hearing venue with her 3-month-old child; 90-year-old Muktibala Paramanik being brou Read More

Border bonds: Jalpaiguri mourns its daughter Khaleda Zia; Bangladesh’s first woman PM was born in West Bengal town

Khaleda Zia JALPAIGURI: Grief over former Bangladesh PM Khaleda Zia’s death on Tuesday travelled well beyond Dhaka, reaching Jalpaiguri, a north Bengal town nearly 434 km away, where memories of her early life still lingered. Read More

If infiltrators in West Bengal, who attacked Delhi, Pahalgam, asks Didi

Mamata Banerjee, chief minister of West Bengal KOLKATA/BANKURA: West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee Tuesday mounted a counterattack on home minister Amit Shah, questioning his handling of national security and demanding his resignation Read More

Spirit without the spirits: The coolest New Year party is now hangover-free

Motta Maadi Music Sober Party, started by Chennai-based musician Badhri Narayanan Seshadri, is a New Year’s concert for teetotaller For years, New Year’s Eve came with a familiar script: you drink, you party, you recover (or re Read More

Will restore Bengal’s lost glory in 2026: Amit Shah

Amit Shah NEW DELHI: Union home minister Amit Shah predicted Tuesday a BJP govt in Bengal with a two-thirds majority in the 2026 assembly polls, while promising to end infiltration and seeking to calm fears among the Matua communit Read More

Galwan film teaser draws sharp reaction from China

Salman Khan in ‘Battle of Galwan’ NEW DELHI: A teaser of Salman Khan-starrer Battle of Galwan, based on the clash between Indian and Chinese soldiers in Galwan Valley in 2020, has been racking up viewership in millions a Read More

Adhir-PM meet on Bengali workers sets off speculation

New Delhi: Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury gives an addressal after meeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in New Delhi. Read More

Assault row: Sacked Himachal doctor, patient patch up with a hug

Doctor-patient brawl A handshake and an embrace on Tuesday marked an end to the Dec 22 assault case at Shimla’s Indira Gandhi Medical College (IGMC) involving sacked senior resident Dr Raghav Narula and patient Arjun Panwar. Read More

‘Home I dug for myself’: 80-year-old Telangana man builds his final resting place; tends to it daily

Nakka Indrayya HYDERABAD: An old man bends over granite slabs waiting beside a neatly edged pit. Plants line edges. This is not a garden. It is preparation for death. It is his grave. Read More