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MOYNA: NIA arrested TMC worker Swapan Bhowmik in connection with the 2023 murder of a BJP booth president in the run-up to panchayat elections. Bhowmik, absconding for over a year and a half, was arrested from his daughter’s residence in Sabang in East Midnapore on Friday.The family of Bijoy Krishna Bhunia had approached Calcutta HC,…

DHAKA: Indian high commissioner to Bangladesh Pranay Verma on Saturday paid a courtesy call on newly elected BNP chairman Tarique Rahman and discussed issues of mutual interest between the two countries. The Indian envoy went to Rahman’s Gulshan office in the evening and held a nearly hour-long meeting with him, BNP media cell member Sayrul…

LONDON: UK shadow foreign secretary Priti Patel has called on the British government to intervene in the “increase in violence” in Bangladesh that has involved murders of Hindus and use its influence to bring about stability in the country. The British Indian Opposition Conservative MP posted her letter to Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper on social…

COPS & CHALK: Amihiya police station in Madhya Pradesh’s Rewa BHOPAL: Like most of its peers, Amihiya police station’s stock-in-trade remains FIR. Unlike them, however, it has gone beyond the three dreaded letters – to the full alphabet, blackboards, benches, students and teachers, reports Amarjeet Singh. This police station in MP’s Rewa turns into a…

PATNA: BJP-led NDA hit out at AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi over his remarks that a hijab-clad woman would one day become Prime Minister, triggering a sharp exchange over Constitution, religion and political power Saturday, reports Jai Narain Pandey. Union minister Giriraj Singh accused Owaisi of pursuing divisive ideas. “Owaisi has Ghazwa-e-Hind (conquest of India) in…

NAGPUR: Reiterating the limits of judicial intervention at the threshold stage, the Nagpur bench of Bombay high court recently held that the inherent powers under Section 482 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) cannot be invoked to stifle a legitimate prosecution, particularly when the allegations disclose a prima facie offence requiring trial. A division bench…

BENGALURU: India took a formal step towards building its own space station, with Isro inviting Indian industry to develop the first module of the proposed Bharatiya Antariksh Station (BAS). Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, under the Department of Space, issued an expression of interest (EoI) seeking qualified Indian aerospace manufacturers to build two sets of the…

JAIPUR/JODHPUR: Union minister Amit Shah Saturday credited the Bhajan Lal Sharma-led BJP govt in Rajasthan with streamlining the recruitment system in the state, putting an end to the paper leak scandals, which he alleged had become a recurring feature during the previous Congress dispensation. Shah was addressing newly recruited police constables, while distributing appointment letters…

Ajit Pawar with Supriya Sule and other party members in Pune, Saturday PUNE: Estranged cousins Ajit Pawar and Supriya Sule came together for the first time on a political platform on Saturday to release the joint manifesto of NCP and NCP (SP) for the Pune civic polls nearly two-and-a-half years after the split in the…

The Aam Aadmi Party on Saturday staged protests across Punjab, accusing the BJP, Congress and the Shiromani Akali Dal of hurting religious sentiments by circulating a “doctored” video of senior party leader and former Delhi chief minister Atishi.The AAP alleged that the “edited” video, which amounted to “beadbi” (sacrilege) of the Guru Sahib, was circulated…