KOLKATA: Forty-eight hours after he was relieved by the EC as the special observer on May 7, retired IAS officer Subrata Gupta was on Saturday appointed adviser to chief minister Suvendu Adhikari. The appointment order came within hours after Adhikari took oath as CM at a ceremony at Brigade Parade Grounds.The state also appointed IAS…
BENGALURU: Karnataka planning and statistics minister D Sudhakar passed away in the early hours of Sunday following a prolonged illness, according to a medical bulletin. He was 66.Sudhakar breathed his last at the Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences, where he had been undergoing treatment for a lung infection for the past two months.“Honourable Minister Mr….
NEW DELHI: TVK chief C Joseph Vijay on Sunday was sworn in as Tamil Nadu chief minister after the May 4 verdict declared his party as the single largest in the assembly. His oath-taking came after days of struggle in proving a majority to governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar.He took oath at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium…
CHENNAI: TVK president Vijay will hold the home (police) and public administration portfolios. K A Sengottaiyan, who quit AIADMK and joined TVK in Nov 2025, is likely to become public works department minister, a portfolio previously held by DMK’s EV Velu.N Anand, TVK general secretary, is likely to head the municipal administration portfolio, while Aadhav…
Woman living alone in Mauganj district was found murdered inside her locked house (Image used for representational purpose only) BHOPAL: A woman living alone in Mauganj district was found murdered inside her house, her hands and legs tied and cloth stuffed into her mouth, with post-mortem findings pointing to death by suffocation, police said on…
IIM Bengaluru (File Photo) BENGALURU: A 23-year-old nanny, a native of Manipur working in Bengaluru, has accused her employer’s spouse of illegally confining, assaulting and starving her at their residence on the campus of Indian Institute of Management Bangalore in Bilekahalli on Bannerghatta Road.In a complaint filed with Mico Layout police station, the woman, C…
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on Saturday warned that any further attacks on Iranian oil tankers or commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz would trigger a “heavy assault” on American military assets and ships in the region, amid escalating tensions between Tehran and Washington in the Persian Gulf.In a statement posted on X,…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has shared a bold vision for the future of artificial intelligence (AI) innovation, suggesting that the next great frontier for computing isn’t just on our screens, but in the physical world around us. During a keynote at the recently-held Adobe Summit, sitting down with Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen, Huang discussed how…
MP Sule posted about the mishap on her X handle and posted image of the SUV NAVI MUMBAI: NCP (SP) MP Supriya Sule, who was travelling in her car along the Mumbai-Pune Expressway on Saturday while returning to Mumbai, escaped unhurt after an SUV grazed her car before the Madap tunnel in the jurisdiction of…
NEW DELHI: Days after securing a massive victory in the Kerala assembly election, Congress is yet to finalise its pick for chief minister.Three senior leaders are in the race — V D Satheesan, Ramesh Chennithala and K C Venugopal. All three were in Delhi as of Saturday, with Congress high command holding meetings through the…