KOLKATA: ‘Bhadralok’ neighbourhoods of north and south Kolkata – considered impenetrable fortresses of TMC for over a decade – decisively flipped these elections, revealing a metropolitan electorate that traded its traditional allegiance for a “new beginning” under BJP.Professor Maidul Islam said, “There has been a demographic shift in 15 years. Non-Bengali vote share has increased…
For more than six decades, James Harrison quietly carried out one of the most extraordinary acts of public service in modern medicine. Known as the “man with the golden arm,” he donated blood plasma over 1,100 times through Australian Red Cross Lifeblood, helping produce a rare treatment used to protect unborn babies. His plasma contained…
Mumbai Indians’ Jasprit Bumrah (PTI Photo/Salman Ali) There was a time when Jasprit Bumrah’s slower ball wasn’t just a variation, it was sorcery. A carefully disguised trick, delivered with identical arm speed, that forced even the best batters into indecision. He didn’t just use it. He used it like the latest smartphone and toyed with…
NEW DELHI: Constitutional position is unambiguous on a CM refusing to resign after her defeat in an assembly election — once the polls have been concluded and certificates issued to the elected MLAs by the EC, the outgoing House automatically stands dissolved and its successor has to be constituted with the appointment of a new…
SIVAGANGA: In the end, every vote made it count, literally, in Tirupattur constituency in Sivaganga district when TVK candidate R Seenivasa Sethupathy defeated DMK minister K R Periyakaruppan by just one vote in the Tamil Nadu assembly election. While Sethupathy secured 83,375 votes, Periyakaruppan polled 83,374 votes.The fight, which dragged on till 1.30am, was between…
NEW DELHI: Big political personalities were humbled in the latest round of assembly elections, with voters across West Bengal, Tamil Nadu and Kerala delivering a “vote for change” that swept aside as many as 50 ministers – including two sitting chief ministers – alongside several high-profile challengers in other states and a Union Territory.In West…
Former India cricketer and outgoing Trinamool Congress MLA Manoj Tiwary on Tuesday said his association with the party has ended. He alleged that he was denied a ticket from Howrah’s Shibpur constituency because he refused to pay Rs 5 crore.The 40-year-old, who is Bengal’s highest run-scorer in first-class cricket with 10,195 runs, served as minister…
NEW DELHI/KOLKATA: ED has issued a lookout circular against Kolkata DCP (Special Branch) Shantanu Sinha Biswas to stop him from leaving the country after he allegedly skipped five summons in a money laundering case. Biswas is a former officerin-charge of Kalighat Police Station, the area in which CM Mamata Banerjee’s house is located. ED had…
MOHALI: A major accident was averted at Shaheed Bhagat Singh International Airport on Tuesday after a power bank allegedly caught fire inside an IndiGo flight that had arrived from Hyderabad, triggering panic among passengers. Six people were injured and taken to hospital.According to airport officials, IndiGo flight 6E 108 from Hyderabad landed at Chandigarh airport…
This will be the second round of questioning by ED of Sujit Bose (right), former fire minister who was defeated Monday, and Rathin Ghosh, food minister who won from Madhyamgram seat NEW DELHI: As it reels under the trauma of the poll debacle, more trouble seems headed TMC’s way with ED set to question party…