Sachin Tendulkar and Amitabh Bachchan shared a light-hearted game of hand cricket, proving that sometimes the simplest moments leave the biggest impression. Sachin and Amitabh Bachchan Photograph: (X) Two of India’s most revered icons, one from the cricket field and the other from the silver screen, came together in a moment of pure nostalgia that
Karan Aujla faces fresh cheating allegations as more women speak out online, while wife Palak Aujla responds with silence amid growing social media debate. Karan Aujla Photograph: (Instagram) Punjabi singer Karan Aujla remains at the centre of growing online scrutiny as multiple allegations continue to surface, intensifying an already heated controversy. What began as a
Odisha plans to demolish unsafe government buildings, including Na Tala and Rajiv Bhawan in Bhubaneswar, as part of a phased redevelopment, while preserving the old Assembly as a heritage museum. ‘Na Tala’ and ‘Rajiv Bhawan’ in Bhubaneswar to be demolished: Odisha Minister Photograph: (OTV) The Odisha government has plans to demolish several key government buildings
KOLKATA: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee said on Tuesday that the Election Commission of India (ECI) was snatching the voting rights of millions of people in the election-bound state. West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee addresses a press conference on the Special Intensive Revision of the state’s electoral roll on Tuesday (PTI) “This is
The Election Commission of India (ECI) has received more than 3.5 lakh claims from voters for the inclusion and deletion of names after the draft electoral roll in the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in West Bengal was published on December 16, 2025, officials have said. People wait at a centre during hearings under the
Thousands of office-goers and other early morning travellers faced delays on Tuesday after operations on a key section of the Kolkata Metro were disrupted for close to an hour, officials said. Amid the power supply issue in the Kolkata metro train, emergency measures were taken to ensure passenger safety. (Debajyoti Chakraborty) The disruption occurred on
KOLKATA: Digitisation of the 2002 SIR database using AI tools has resulted in large-scale mismatches, with several genuine voters categorised as “logical discrepancies”, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee told Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar in a letter on Monday. Chief minister Mamata Banerjee (HT Photo/Samir Jana) “In the absence of any digitised database
Smriti Mandhana and Harmanpreet Kaur | Image: wplt20/X More than one Women’s Premier League match will be played behind closed doors due to the Navi Mumbai municipal corporation elections this week. As per ESPN Cricinfo, police have communicated to BCCI that they won’t be able to provide adequate security for the match to be held
Under recent agreements, the US government has committed $1 billion to L3Harris Technologies and $150 million to ATALCO US President Donald Trump is extending his corporate influence through “golden share” arrangements, this time in L3Harris Technologies and Atlantic Alumina Company (ATALCO), as his administration accelerates efforts to secure US supply chains for critical minerals, defence
The hushed hallways of the American mission in New Delhi were replaced with the high-octane energy of a stadium tour on Monday. As Sergio Gor, the newly appointed United States Ambassador-designate to India, arrived to commence his duties, the atmosphere was more reminiscent of a political rally than a diplomatic induction. Embassy staff and media