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The first cyclonic storm of 2022 over Bay of Bengal was formed on early Sunday morning as it lied 1020 km away from Puri coast while moving with a speed of 16 kmph, India Meteorological Department (IMD) officials said. Named Asani (wrath in Sinhala, one of the official languages of Sri Lanka), the cyclone is […]

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday took a jibe at the central government after the hike in prices of domestic liquified petroleum gas (LPG) by ₹50 per cylinder, insisting that “Only Congress governs for the welfare of poor and middle-class Indian families. It’s the core of our economic policy.” In his tweet, the Congress leader […]

Militants shot at and injured a police personnel in Srinagar on Saturday, police said.The injured constable has been shifted to a hospital. “Around 8.40 am, terrorists fired at and critically injured Jammu and Kashmir Police constable Ghulam Hassan near Aiwa Bridge in Safakadal area of the city,” a police official said.The area has been cordoned […]

Tamil Nadu chief minister MK Stalin on Saturday morning hopped on to a public bus to enjoy a ride in Chennai with the people of his state as his government completes one year. The 69-year-old leader is known for his zeal to break away from the routines of a chief minister to touch base with […]

A low-pressure area over the South Andaman Sea is set to turn into a cyclone – to be named Asani – by Sunday and may move north towards India’s eastern coast, the India Meteorological Department has said. IMD officials said the low-pressure area would likely intensify into a depression by Saturday evening and into a […]

In the middle of the ongoing controversy over the global health body WHO’s report on India’s Covid-19 death toll, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi took to Twitter on Friday and accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of “lying”. He also urged the BJP-led central government to support the kin of those who succumbed to the deadly virus […]

A Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) youth worker was found hanging inside an abandoned building ‘under mysterious circumstances’, sparking tensions in Kashipur area of north Kolkata in West Bengal Friday morning. Union home minister Amit Shah, who is on a two-day visit to West Bengal, is expected to visit the BJP worker’s residence today afternoon. According […]

Ashrin Sultana, the wife of the 25-year-old Dalit man who was beaten to death for the inter-religion marriage on Wednesday in a brutal hate crime, said she did not initially realise that it was her brother who attacked the newly wed couple. The attack left Billipuram Nagaraju dead and his wife Ashrin Sultana severely injured. […]