Kolkata: West Bengal chief minister-elect Suvendu Adhikari on Friday evening met Governor RN Ravi and staked a claim to form the first BJP-led government in the state. Adhikari reached Lok Bhavan barely two hours after being elected leader of the BJP legislature party at a meeting chaired by Union Home Minister Amit Shah. The CM-elect…
Beijing: China, for the first time, has confirmed that it provided on-site technical support to Pakistan during the four-day conflict with India last year, official media reports here said. China’s state broadcaster CCTV on Thursday aired an interview with Zhang Heng, an engineer from the Aviation Industry Corporation of China’s (AVIC) Chengdu Aircraft Design and…
Kolkata: Senior BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari was on Friday elected the leader of the BJP legislature party in West Bengal, paving the way for him to become the first BJP chief minister of the state. BJP sources said Adhikari’s name was proposed at the legislature party meeting here and formally announced by Union Home Minister…
New Delhi: She came to the Supreme Court seeking a re-evaluation of her paper in the examination for joining judicial services as a magistrate. What she got instead was a rejection — and a candid confession by the Chief Justice that he too had wanted to join the judicial services in his youth but was…
Kolkata: Police stations in border districts of West Bengal intensified surveillance and searches as investigators suspect the involvement of professional shooters from neighbouring states in the killing of BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari’s close aide, a senior officer said on Friday. The police are also investigating the role of local criminals who might have provided logistical…
New Delhi: India has successfully carried out the maiden flight-trial of an indigenously developed glide weapon system off the coast of Odisha. The Tactical Advanced Range Augmentation (TARA) system, developed to convert unguided warheads into precision-guided weapons, was tested on Thursday, according to the defence ministry. “The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and the…
Thuruvananthapuram: With the ball now in the Congress high command’s court to decide the next Chief Minister of Kerala, supporters of key contenders V D Satheesan, K C Venugopal and Ramesh Chennithala have hit the streets and social media platforms extending support to their leaders across the state. On Thursday, when AICC observers Mukul Wasnik…
Kolkata: The BJP legislature party is scheduled to meet in Kolkata on Friday in the presence of Union Home Minister Amit Shah to formally elect its leader, with Suvendu Adhikari emerging as the frontrunner to become the party’s first chief minister in West Bengal. The BJP registered a historic victory in the just-held assembly elections,…
MS Shanker The dramatic political developments in West Bengal have triggered intense constitutional debate across the country. Television studios are overflowing with legal experts discussing whether Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee could continue in office after refusing to resign, and what options remain before the Governor and the Union government. Yet, amid all the noise, many…
Every nation has moments when it pauses to remember the deeper bonds that hold its people together. Not politics, not caste, not language, not region, and not religion. But a shared civilisational identity expressed through symbols, songs, flags, and collective memory. India may finally be approaching such a moment with the decision to grant Vande…
