Former chief minister Mamata Banerjee arrived at Apollo Hospital, where TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee is currently undergoing treatment KOLKATA: Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo and former West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday visited a hospital in Kolkata where her nephew and party national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee is undergoing treatment following an attack in…
NEW DELHI: Karnataka Congress president D K Shivakumar on Saturday met Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot and staked claim to form the government after being unanimously elected leader of the Congress Legislature Party (CLP).Shivakumar’s meeting at Raj Bhavan came shortly after the CLP elected him as its new leader at a meeting held at Vidhana Soudha in…
(Image credits: X @INCIndia) NEW DELHI: The Congress Legislature Party on Saturday elected DK Shivakumar as their new leader during a meeting held at Vidhana Soudha in Bengaluru.The meeting concluded after outgoing Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah stepped down as the Congress Legislature Party leader, paving the way for the election of his successor.According to the…
NEW DELHI: Several residents across Delhi-NCR and parts of western Uttar Pradesh were startled on Saturday after receiving an “Extremely Severe Alert” notification on their mobile phones, accompanied by a loud warning buzzer.The alert warned of severe weather conditions, including thunderstorms, lightning, strong winds, heavy rainfall and hailstorms, likely to affect several districts over the…
On the eve of his retirement, Chief of Defence Staff General Anil Chauhan unveiled the Joint Air Defence Doctrine, a step towards integrating the Army, Navy and Air Force into a seamless, multi-layered shield against aerial threats. The doctrine, released by Headquarters Integrated Defence Staff (IDS), is designed to strengthen operational preparedness and ensure synergy…
NEW DELHI: Karnataka Congress president and deputy chief minister DK Shivakumar is set to take oath as the state’s next chief minister on June 3, said Karnataka Congress working president G C Chandrashekhar.Addressing a press conference in Bengaluru on Saturday, Chandrashekhar said the swearing-in ceremony would be held at the Glass House in Lok Bhavan….
Russian intelligence agencies are aggressively intensifying efforts to steal Western technology, defence research and industrial secrets across Europe as sanctions linked to the Ukraine war squeeze Moscow’s wartime economy, senior European intelligence officials told Associated Press.Officials from Sweden, Finland, Estonia and the United Kingdom said Russia is using fake companies, middlemen, cyber spies and covert…
15-year-old Nigerian student Raheema Auwal-Panti is attracting international attention for an innovation that tackles two major challenges at once, plastic pollution and menstrual-product accessibility. The founder of PantiPads, a biodegradable sanitary-pad initiative launched in 2025, has developed menstrual products made from agricultural waste materials that would otherwise be discarded. Her project uses cassava peelings, banana…
Vaibhav Sooryavanshi (BCCI/IPL Photo) NEW DELHI: Vaibhav Sooryavanshi on Saturday shared an emotional Instagram Story originally posted by Rajasthan Royals after the franchise’s IPL 2026 campaign came to a heartbreaking end. A valiant effort from the 15-year-old, who scored a magnificent 96 off 47 balls in Qualifier 2, ultimately went in vain as Rajasthan Royals…
Army chief General Upendra Dwivedi NEW DELHI: “India is preparing for Operation Sindoor 2.0,” Army chief Upendra Dwivedi said on Saturday, asserting that the military posture adopted in response to Pakistan‘s actions following the Pahalgam terror attack remains in place.Speaking to news agency ANI, the Army chief stressed that “Operation Sindoor is still continuing” and…