Pakistan’s Shaheen Shah Afridi and teammate Usman Tariq leave the field after Pakistan lost their T20 World Cup game against India (AP Photo) Former Pakistan captain Shahid Afridi launched a scathing attack on the senior core of the Pakistan national cricket team after their crushing 61-run defeat to India national cricket team in the ICC…
Holding his enumeration form, Dilim Toto sits on the floor with four others in the kitchen-turned-office of Booth-Level Officer (BLO) Prakash Pradhan’s house in Totopara village. The 25-year-old has been called for a hearing, as part of the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise in West Bengal, for a “logical discrepancy” since he is one…
While Nitin Nabin, 45, has taken over as the BJP’s youngest-ever national president, marking a generational shift in the leadership of the ruling party, the principal Opposition Congress continues to struggle over the issue of promoting its young faces more than three years after it resolved to ensure 50% representation for youths across all levels…
Hours after taking charge as the new BJP national president on Tuesday, Nitin Nabin began to form his team as he appointed the party’s election in-charges for the upcoming Kerala Assembly election and the civic body polls in Bengaluru and Telangana. These appointments, in line with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s remarks on the BJP being…
With Prime Minister Narendra Modi set to address a major election rally in Maduranthagam near Chennai on Friday, the NDA in Tamil Nadu is engaged in an intense round of negotiations that underline both the ambition and fragility of its plans for the upcoming state Assembly elections. Since Tuesday night senior BJP leaders led by…
3 min readMumbaiJan 23, 2026 10:59 PM IST First published on: Jan 22, 2026 at 08:30 AM IST The poor performance of the two NCP factions in the recent municipal corporation elections in Maharashtra has fuelled speculations about the merger of the two parties – the Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar-led NCP and the Sharad…
The Siddaramaiah-led Congress government in Karnataka has proposed a new law that will tackle “honour killings” as a specific category of crime, besides protecting the freedom of choice in marriage. The government is bringing this Bill in the wake of some recent caste-linked honour killings in the state. In one such incident reported from a…
On Monday, former Chief Minister and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti demanded divisional status for the Pir Panjal and Chenab Valley regions of Jammu. The demand for divisional status for the twin regions came after BJP leader Sham Lal Sharma demanded that Jammu be carved out as a separate state. Both the ruling…
A scientist in Norway gave himself brain damage after he tested a secret weapon on himself to disprove the existence of Havana Syndrome, it emerged.The unidentified govt researcher built a machine capable of emitting powerful pulses of microwave energy in an attempt to prove such devices were harmless to humans, The Telegraph reported.But after testing…
With the Assembly election drawing near in Kerala, Sree Narayana Dharma Paripalana (SNDP) Yogam and Nair Service Society (NSS) — two of the state’s prominent Hindu caste outfits — appear to have endorsed a “Hindu unity” plan, a move that brings them closer. After a meeting of SNDP Yogam general council on Wednesday, its general…