Month: June 2025

[ad_1] With Sindoor focus, BJP eyes TMC's core female vote bank KOLKATA: The era of "appeasement politics" in Bengal is over as BJP primes itself to form the next government in 2026 with the supportThe era of “appeasement politics” in Bengal is over as BJP primes itself to form the next government in 2026 with the support of its core Hindu constituency and women voters moving away from CM Mamata Banerjee’s party, home minister Amit Shah said Sunday while echoing a sentiment ignited by PM Narendra Modi in north Bengal last week.“Bengal’s women won’t tolerate any insult to sindoor,” Shah declared at Kolkata’s Netaji Indoor Stadium.He said CM Mamata taking potshots at PM Modi amid India’s Operation Sindoor targeting terrorist sites in Pakistan indicated whose side she was on. “It would have been better if she were pained by Bengalis […]

[ad_1] SHAMLI: A 20ft-long iron borewell pipe having a diameter of around 8 inches was detected on Delhi-Saharanpur railway track by an alert loco pilot in the nick of time, averting a major train tragedy on Saturday night. Several medium- to large-sized stones were also found on the tracks. Notably, this was the fourth such attempt of sabotaging of train operations in Uttar Pradesh in May.Last week, there was an attempt to derail the New Delhi-Bhubaneswar Tejas Rajdhani express when an unknown person kept ballast on the tracks between Bheerpur and Meja Road railway stations.Two attempts to derail the Delhi-Dibrugarh Rajdhani Express (20504) and Kathgodam Express (15044) were recorded on May 19, near Dalelnagar and Umar Tali stations, when an unknown person had kept a wooden log on the rail track. Sharing details of the Shamli incident, officials said the […]

[ad_1] They say time stops for no one, but in Rajkummar Rao and Wamiqa Gabbi’s starrer ‘Bhool Chuk Maaf’, the protagonist finds himself stuck in a loop where time (well, it doesn’t stop) but keeps repeating and re-lives his ‘haldi day’ over and over again! And it appears the audience is enjoying this time loop; this tragedy, which is comedy for cinephiles, has helped the movie maintain a steady box office performance. According to Sacnilk, after a 10-day run at the theatres, ‘Bhool Chuk Maaf’ has come closer to the Rs. 60 crore mark in India.‘Bhool Chuk Maaf’ box office update - The weekend surgeThe debut weekend of the movie saw good numbers at the box office, but there was a significant dip in the footfall during the weekdays. Nevertheless, as the second weekend came, the movie saw a rise […]

[ad_1] File photo: Trinamool MP Sagarika Ghose (Picture credit: ANI) KOLKATA: Trinamool Congress responded Sunday to home minister Amit Shah's "sindoor politics" by highlighting what it said was "the irony of his crusade against corruption with Suvendu Adhikari as its spearhead"."BJP is the world's largest washing machine, headed by Amit Shah. All ED cases are against opposition. Suvendu Adhikari, sitting next to Shah, has also been washed like this," Trinamool MP Sagarika Ghose said. The party said that instead of "politicising the purity of sindoor", Shah should take responsibility for the alleged security lapses that led to the killing of 26 people in J&K's Pahalgam and resign. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] For Indian students, US dreams suddenly in doubt India, the country that sends more students to the US than any other, young people who had hoped to pursue higher education in America this fall described feeling in a state of limbo after the Trump administration's decision to pause interviews with foreign nationals applying for student visas.Some are scrubbing their feeds, deleting comments and unfollowing accounts after the state department said that it would screen social media use. Others are exchanging news and information in newly formed encrypted group chats. And some have sought divine aid in "visa temples" - so called because Hindu devotees say prayers there provide a greater chance of getting a tourist, study or work visa.Career counsellors have become therapists, and the extended family networks that many Indians have in America, have set up war rooms […]

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: A Delhi court observed that a case in which the judgment was rendered by a foreign court, and was also sub judice in India, must be heard at length. The court of Additional Sessions Judge Sumit Dass made the observation on May 5 while hearing the submissions of Shravan Gupta, an accused in a money laundering case. Gupta was convicted by a court in Abu Dhabi last year for the same offences as charged by the Enforcement Directorate - fraud, deception, and embezzlement. Gupta and six others, including a private company, filed a revision petition against a magisterial court order of November 2024 in which the court issued them and others summons for the offences of fraud and cheating. Meanwhile, the court stayed proceedings in the matter until July 4, the next hearing date. The court also […]