Gun scare near White House: Person shot by law enforcement at Washington Monument An individual was shot by law enforcement near the Washington Monument in Washington, DC on Monday, prompting a brief security lockdown at the nearby White House.The United States Secret Service confirmed that personnel were responding to an “officer-involved shooting” at 15th Street…
NEW DELHI: A Delhi court on Monday granted bail to Bharat Mathur, an executive associated with Reliance Industries Limited, in a bribery case linked to the DGCA, reports Koushiki Saha.Special Judge Chhavi Kapoor of the Rouse Avenue Courts noted that the 64-year-old accused had no prior criminal antecedents and had already spent 15 days in…
Change reaction in 3 states; Assam keeps Biswas in HimantaIt was a day of dramatic upheavals. BJP finally managed to win the state that had virtually become its final frontier over the past 10 years, Tamil superstar Vijay made a stunning political debut and looks set to be the next chief minister of Tamil Nadu,…
NEW DELHI: The govt on Monday said there was no increase in the retail prices of petrol, diesel and domestic LPG, amid speculation that rates might go up after the results of the assembly elections in four states and a Union Territory were announced.Sujata Sharma, joint secretary in the ministry of petroleum, said there was…
Vijay, aka Thalapathy Vijay, has registered a hisoric victory with his party, Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK), in the Tamil Nadu Assembly Elections 2026. Interestingly, May 4 — the day of the election results — also marked Trisha Krishnan’s birthday, setting off a wave of chatter online. ‘Double celebrations’ Amid ongoing rumours linking Vijay and Trisha,…
NEW DELHI: Rejecting an attempt by SpiceJet and its promoter Ajay Singh to cite the ongoing West Asia crisis as a ground to seek review of an earlier court order to deposit Rs 144 crore in connection with its legal dispute with media baron Kalanithi Maran and Kal Airways, Delhi high court Monday dismissed the…
Calling himself ‘Vijay Mama’, the TVK chief thanked kids for his victory MGR, the biggest crossover star from cinema to Tamil Nadu politics, never drank or smoked on screen. He was fair complexioned. For someone who claims to be the next MGR in Tamil Nadu politics, Vijay did – on screen – everything that MGR…
NEW DELHI: “Counting will begin in the morning of May 4. Ballot box will open at 8 am, first round will be over at 9 and second round at 10. Counting will be over at 1 pm and it will be ta ta, good-bye to didi.” Thus spoke Union home minister Amit Shah at one…
In the West Bengal Assembly Elections 2026, Mayna Murmu of the Bharatiya Janata Party secured a convincing win in Manbazar (Assembly Constituency 243), defeating Trinamool Congress candidate Sandhya Rani Tudu by a margin of 27,283 votes.Murmu polled 1,20,487 votes after all 16 rounds of counting, while Tudu secured 93,204 votes.Manbazar (ST), Assembly Constituency No. 243,…
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”,…