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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

It has been more than three years since China’s Xi Jinping told Canada’s Justin Trudeau to “ create the conditions first” before the two countries could work together constructively during their awkward private exchange at the 2022 G20 summit. Despite occasional diplomatic engagement since then, the conditions for genuine co-operation between Canada and China failed

An Iranian official has said that at least 2,000 people have been killed in protests in Iran. The official blamed ’terrorists’ for these deaths. Around 2,000 people have been killed in ongoing nationwide protests in Iran, an Iranian official told Reuters on Tuesday. The official blamed “terrorists” for the deaths of civilians and security personnel.

The BJP hosted a six-member delegation from China’s Communist Party (CPC) at its Delhi headquarters, marking the first formal party-to-party meeting since the 2020 Galwan Valley clash. The talks aimed to strengthen dialogue and advance inter-party ties amid a gradual thaw in India-China relations. The BJP on Monday hosted a six-member delegation from the Communist