KOLKATA: Bhowanipore eventually turned its back Monday on Mamata Banerjee after three terms as the Bengal CM was sliced out of her Kolkata home turf in a knife-edge contest that saw her protege-turned-foe Suvendu Adhikari vanquish her by 15,105 votes.Mamata struggled to accept the outcome, claiming she and her TMC had been defeated “by force”,…
NEW DELHI: The risk of being hospitalised in India doubles after the age of 45 and rises sharply among the elderly, signalling a shift in the country’s healthcare burden, according to the latest National Sample Survey Office (NSO) data.The survey shows that hospitalisation rates climb from 23 per 1,000 people in the 30-44 age group…
Not shipshape: Poor campaign planning and failure to find an answer to BJP’s identity politics have been a hindrance for Congress NEW DELHI: In cricketing analogy, Congress got off the mark with Kerala. The party notched its first victory since winning Telangana in Dec 2023, and finally showed some resilience after its commendable show in…
Titans tumble: The defeats may bring the allies closer NEW DELHI: As BJP appeared to get a lock on a state that sends 42 MPs to Lok Sabha, Mandate 2026 confronted INDIA bloc with a question about how to take on a rival with an ever-expanding footprint in the next LS elections.The results in Tamil…
Okay, so everybody knows Charles Barkley and the Inside the NBA crew stay undefeated when it comes to roasting people. But nobody, and we mean NOBODY, expected them to come for Mike Vrabel and Dianna Russini on Sunday night. Yet here we are.During their iconic “Gone Fishing” segment, the one where they clown teams that…
Kolkata: Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee‘s residence in Kolkata’s Kalighat and her office in Nabanna were placed under an unprecedented security lockdown on Monday, even as Bengal’s chief secretary Dushyant Nariala instructed all departmental heads to ensure no official documents are removed, damaged or copied without authorisation.Long before the final results of the assembly polls were…
NEW DELHI: Reversing two cardinal principles of the criminal justice system for acid attack cases, Supreme Court on Monday said once an acid attack survivor names the accused, the onus will be on him to prove innocence, and those convicted should face the harshest punishment.In the criminal justice system, SC has zealously implemented two major…
In West Bengal’s Harirampur, Trinamool Congress’ Biplab Mitra won by 93,098 votes. Bharatiya Janata Party’s Debabrata Majumder lost by 1,986 votes, getting 91,112 votes.Harirampur in 2026 will see a contest between incumbent TMC MLA Biplab Mitra, BJP’s Debabrata Majumder, and Congress candidate Subhasish Pal (Sona).Harirampur is an assembly constituency in Dakshin Dinajpur district, part of…
Party Looks To Stay On The Up In UP, Get Upper Hand In Punjab Even before the last votes were cast in this round of assembly polls, PM Narendra Modi and BJP president Nitin Nabin were in Uttar Pradesh on April 28. They were mobilising popular support and attacking the opposition for defeating the Centre’s…
Arunava Sen of the All India Trinamool Congress defeats Pramanshu Rana of the Bharatiya Janata Party in Bagnan, winning by a margin of 11,316 votes after all 20 rounds of counting.Bagnan in Howrah district has been represented by Arunava Sen (Raja) of the All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly. He…