With Sindoor focus, BJP eyes TMC’s core female vote bank KOLKATA: The era of “appeasement politics” in Bengal is over as BJP primes itself to form the next government in 2026 with the supportThe era of “appeasement politics” in Bengal is over as BJP primes itself to form the next government in 2026 with the…
NEW DELHI: In a span of just a month, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has twice taken top central government bureaucrats and state chief secretaries by surprise by flagging public grievances that had reached him directly.On April 30, secretaries and chief secretaries attending a meeting under Pragati — the performance audit PM holds periodically — were…
File photo: PM Modi (Picture credit: PTI) NEW DELHI: In a span of just a month, PM Narendra Modi has twice taken top central government bureaucrats and state chief secretaries by surprise by flagging public grievances that had reached him directly, reports Dipak Dash.On April 30, secretaries and chief secretaries attending a meeting under Pragati…
Punjab Kings’ quest for a top-two IPL playoff finish suffered a setback with a six-wicket loss to Delhi Capitals despite posting a competitive 206/8. Shreyas Iyer’s 53 and Marcus Stoinis’s 44 were not enough as Delhi chased the target successfully. Punjab Kings faced a setback in their pursuit of a top-two finish in the Indian…
US Secretary of Education Linda McMahon announces new US education grant priorities focused on literacy and state control. (File Photo) In a major shift for US education policy, Secretary of Education Linda McMahon announced on May 20, 2025, her first set of proposed priorities for discretionary grants from the US Department of Education. The new…
RITES Ltd, a Navratna public sector undertaking and a leading transport and engineering consultancy company, is banking on increased export orders and diversification of its Quality Assurance (QA) business to drive revenue growth in the coming years, according to its Chairman and Managing Director, Rahul Mithal.In a statement to PTI, Mithal said, “Proactive efforts to…
Bengaluru: High achievers from the city’s CBSE schools are eyeing medical or engineering seats as they move on to class 11.Naina Kushawaha of Delhi Public School-Whitefield has started NEET (National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test) coaching with Aakash while pursuing class 11 at Sriram Global Public School.“(Choice of medical) matches my interest in biology. Plus, I feel it…
President Trump has long railed against drug traffickers. He has said they should be given the death penalty “for their heinous acts.” On the first day of his second term, he signed an executive order listing cartels as “terrorist organizations.” But many public health and addiction experts fear that his budget proposals and other actions…
U.S. intelligence agencies have focused more closely on Greenland in the past several weeks, spurred by President Trump’s interest in acquiring the island and Vice President JD Vance’s trip to a U.S. military base there, according to multiple American officials. A growing number of intelligence reports about Greenland have been included in information circulated in…
Voters in Australia head to the polls on Saturday, the third major U.S. ally after Germany and Canada to hold elections in a global economic and political landscape upended by the second Trump administration. The two men vying to lead Australia — Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, of the center-left Labor Party, and opposition leader Peter…