As the high-voltage campaign for the Telangana urban local body elections came to an end Monday, the three major contenders – the ruling Congress, Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) and the BJP – are looking to get an upper hand in the February 11 polls. Another player, the Asaduddin Owaisi-led AIMIM, has adopted a wait and…
NASA SpaceX Crew 12 launch reaches orbit and begins journey to the ISS (Image Source – NASA) Morning light had only just settled over the Florida coast when the Falcon 9 rose from Space Launch Complex 40. At 5.15 a.m. EST, which is 3.45 p.m. IST, the rocket carrying NASA’s SpaceX Crew 12 mission cleared…
When Mamata Banerjee appeared in the Supreme Court on February 4 to argue against the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, she made it a point to emphasise the “human cost” of the exercise. “And more than 100 people died. Can you imagine? BLOs (Booth Level Officers) died and they have written a letter…
Aditya Pandya, at the age of 17, achieved something most adults would dream of. He became India’s youngest male analogue astronaut after completing a simulated lunar habitat mission in Dholavira. A teenager, living inside a container-based habitat for eight days, cut off from the outside world, following strict mission rules. And on top of that,…
4 min readKolkataFeb 10, 2026 03:18 PM IST First published on: Feb 10, 2026 at 07:33 AM IST Controversy erupted within the Congress in poll-bound West Bengal after its Pradesh Mahila Congress chief Shrabanti Singh accused state party president Subhankar Sarkar of harassing and insulting Mahila Congress functionaries. Sarkar, however, said it was a “conspiracy”…
Trapped in Antarctic ice for 66 years, body of British scientist Dennis Bell was recovered (AI-generated) It was not expected that the ice would give anything back. Yet among rocks newly exposed by a retreating glacier on King George Island, a set of human remains was found and documented. A Polish research team working near…
NEW DELHI: The India-US trade arrangement will expand cotton demand rather than hurt domestic growers, commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal said on Friday, while asserting Indian farmers stand to gain from rising textile exports.“This will also not hurt our cotton producers… I can see before my eyes a huge requirement for more cotton and…
While the BJP on Monday emerged as the clear frontrunner in Zilla Parishads across Maharashtra, the results also revealed that the two NCPs – the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) led by Deputy CM Sunetra Pawar and NCP(SP) chief Sharad Pawar – which contested most seats in alliance on a common symbol reaped rich dividends. According…
Earth Sciences Minister Kiren Rijiju is reportedly upset with the French IT company Atos. Reason is said to be delay in the delivery of two supercomputers by the French company to Indian weather forecasting institutes. According to a report in news agency PTI, the Earth Sciences Ministry had ordered two supercomputers worth $100 million from…
(As West Bengal gears up for the Assembly polls, every Tuesday, The Indian Express’s Kolkata bureau chief Ravik Bhattacharya decodes the electoral trends, political signals, and campaign moves shaping the contest.) Forty-eight hours is all it took for Mamata Banerjee to establish why, despite all the accusations of high-handedness and corruption against the Trinamool Congress…