A day after his defeat from the Baharampur parliamentary constituency, veteran Congress leader and five-time MP Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Wednesday said he wasn’t certain of what his political future would look like. The party’s prime mover in West Bengal and the state Pradesh Congress president was stunned by Trinamool Congress’s star candidate and cricketer-turned-politician Yusuf Pathan who comprehensively defeated Chowdhury by a margin of over 85,000 votes. With Mr Chowdhury vanquished, Congress lost its political grip over Baharampur, which was among the last standing Congress bastions of the state, and was reduced to a party with just the Malda…
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Varun Dhawan and Natasha Dalal are the new parents in town. The couple welcomed their first child, a baby girl on Monday (June 3). Varun’s father and director David Dhawan recently shared a health update about his daughter-in-law Natasha and his granddaughter. In a viral video, the director is seen exiting the hospital. When the paps asked him if the new mom is doing well, David Dhawan said, “Yes, first class.”View this post on InstagramA post shared by Varinder Chawla (@varindertchawla)On June 4, Varun Dhawan announced the good news by sharing an animated video featuring his pet dog Joey holding a…
India captain Rohit Sharma wasn’t entirely pleased with the disconcerting bounce on offer from the virgin drop-in track at the Nassau County ground that left him with a bruised right bicep. While the match against Ireland ended in a straightforward victory for the Indian team, Rohit was made to reflect on the team selection strategy for the big encounter against Pakistan on Sunday. In a chat during the post-match presentation ceremony, the India captain admitted that the selection of 4 spinners in the 15-man squad doesn’t make much sense if the pitches in the T20 World Cup are going to…
A tourist died after falling nearly 2,000 feet off an iconic cliff in Norway, which was also featured in a ‘Mission Impossible’ movie. Nina Thommesen, a police attorney for the local authorities, confirmed to CNN that a man in his 40s died on June 2 after falling from the cliff. An eyewitness stated the man slipped and fell from the cliff. Authorities have not released the man’s identity but said they recovered his phone and identification. ”The police are investigating the case as a fall accident. We have no assumptions that anything criminal has happened,” Ms Thommesen said. Notably, Pulpit Rock,…
In the dense Amazon rainforest, lives an indigenous, remote tribe that speaks its language, and has a different culture preserved for several millennia. However, a technological marvel has breached its isolated existence – Elon Musk’s revolutionary Starlink satellite internet service. Yet, with this newfound connection comes a dilemma, echoing through the elders’ concerns and the tribe’s evolving dynamics. The New York Times met the Marubos, the 2000-member tribe which connected with the world through the internet for the first time. Billionaire Elon Musk’s Starlink provides internet to remote locations or areas that have had normal communications infrastructure disabled through low-Earth…
An Indian-American man from Texas has been charged with a federal hate crime and is accused of issuing interstate threats against employees of a Sikh nonprofit organisation. Bhushan Athale, 48, faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison for interfering with federally protected activities by threatening to use a dangerous weapon, a statement by the Department of Justice said. He also faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison for sending an interstate threat. Both charges also carry a penalty of up to USD 250,000, the statement said. According to the complaint lodged on September 17, 2022, Athale…
India all-rounder Hardik Pandya showed promising signs as returned to the pitch, wearing the national team’s shirt in the warm-up game against Bangladesh and then in the opening T20 World Cup match against Ireland. Leaving the Mumbai Indians’ problems behind, Hardik showed his old form as a finisher and a bowler, asserting that the Indian Premier League issues are now in the past. Former India batter Sanjay Manjrekar highlighted how ‘relaxed and relieved’ Hardik looks while wearing the India jersey and not the Mumbai Indians blue, having gone through a torrid time in the recently-concluded T20 league. Due to his…
Chandrababu Naidu, who has emerged as one of the kingmakers after the recent elections, has asserted that his Telugu Desam Party is part of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance. His assertion came amid a buzz that Opposition leaders are trying to woo him into the INDIA bloc even as Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to form the NDA government on Saturday. Mr Naidu was among the NDA partners who attended a key meeting at Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s residence yesterday to discuss government formation. It was a good meeting, he said while leaving. “How can we contest elections if…
After attending the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) meeting in Delhi today to discuss the formation of the new government, TDP chief Chandrababu Naidu affirmed that his party is with the NDA and asked how can they contest elections collectively without being a part of the alliance. It was a good meeting, Mr Naidu said after meeting the BJP’s top leadership. Asked about being a part of the NDA, he said, “How can we contest elections if we are not a part of the NDA? We fought this collectively.” Notably, NDA leaders unanimously passed a resolution in the meeting at Prime…
RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav on Thursday said Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar should utilise his position as “kingmaker” in the NDA to ensure special status for Bihar. On Wednesday, photos of the RJD leader sitting with his former boss on a flight to Delhi went viral on social media. Both NDA and INDIA partners flew to the national capital to hold meetings after the Lok Sabha Election results failed to give a majority to the BJP. “NDA has numbers but we want the government which will be formed to take care of Bihar and ensure that it gets special status.…