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Keep your cards close today, Cancer. The Moon can stir sensitive parts in your charts, while Saturn’s distant eyes can reveal you to others who don’t need complete access to your goals, fears or plans.It is possible that you feel you are being watched, judged in anticipation of you to fall. There is a possibility…
Draconian laws, like Bengal’s public safety and public order bills, are no substitute for good policing Bengal birthed India’s first anti-goonda law, with long preventive detention and other draconian measures, more than a century ago. But that was to strengthen colonial rule. Why does its new govt need to arm itself with such powers now?…
Labour Party’s Andy Burnham UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s ambitious £298-billion Defence Investment Plan (DIP) has sparked a political row after it emerged that nearly £5 billion required to fund the programme has yet to be identified, potentially leaving his expected successor Andy Burnham with a major fiscal challenge.The four-year plan includes an additional £15…
Forest & Environment Department, Sikkim Govt, and WWF-India NEW DELHI: In what represents only the second photographic record of Eurasian lynx — a medium-sized wild cat distinguished by its characteristic ear tufts and short tail — in the entire eastern Himalayan region, the species was photographed by a camera trap deployed at 5,250 metres on…
Defying Pope Leo XIV and risking schism, traditionalists go ahead with Latin Mass consecrations A breakaway group of traditionalist Catholics directly defied Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday by consecrating four bishops without his consent, dismissing the resulting excommunications and schism by declaring it was a “sacred duty” to defend the Catholic faith.The Society of Saint…
Kolkata: As Trinamool MLAs of the Ritabrata Banerjee camp took Delhi flights on Wednesday to meet the full bench of the Election Commission “to claim Trinamool control, its symbol and funds”, party chief Mamata Banerjee stepped up the heat, telling party workers “traitors will be traitors forever”.As many as 10 rebel MLAs, including Ritabrata, Sandipan…
File photo: US President Donald Trump (Picture credit: AP) US President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he is not involved in managing his personal finances, a day after financial disclosures revealed he reported more than $1.4 billion in income from his family’s cryptocurrency ventures.Speaking to reporters at Joint Base Andrews before departing for North Dakota,…
India’s captain Shubman Gill with Shardul Thakur (PTI Photo) Mumbai: India all-rounder and current Mumbai captain Shardul Thakur has alleged that he was “underutilized” in the five-Test series in England last year. Playing under new Test captain Shubman Gill and guided by head coach Gautam Gambhir, India drew the five-Test series 2-2. Thakur, who has…
Harry Kane one goal away (Image: X) Harry Kane is on the brink of another milestone in his England career as he prepares to lead the Three Lions into their FIFA World Cup 2026 Round of 32 clash against DR Congo in Atlanta.The England captain has scored three goals in World Cup knockout matches and…
Building bridges for bears, wolves and elk sounded like an expensive fantasy when Canadian officials first proposed the idea in the 1990s. Many critics questioned whether wild animals would ever use specially designed crossings over one of the busiest highways in the Canadian Rockies, while some even mocked the proposal as a waste of taxpayers’…
