West bengal: Suvendu Adhikari, Mithun Chakraborty among BJP star campaigners for Nandigram, Rejinagar bypolls NEW DELHI: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday won both Nandigram and Rejinagar in West Bengal’s assembly bypolls. The result is particularly significant as it comes months after the saffron party won a thumping majority in West Bengal, ending Trinamool Congress’s…
The NTA’s 2024-25 annual report recorded 474 court cases, including 356 concerning NEET-UG 2024. The panel said restoring confidence required “consistent, transparent, and two-way communication”, rather than engagement largely restricted to portals and notifications. NEW DELHI: Move NEET-UG to computers, build secure question banks and invest NTA’s accumulated surplus in government-run test centres: a parliamentary…
SC’s order ahead of CJP protests The Supreme Court on Friday pushed back against sweeping transport restrictions in Delhi ahead of the Cockroach Janata Party (CJP)’s October 10 protest, observing that security measures should not bring the city’s public transport network to a standstill.The bench cautioned that an entire city cannot be shut down in…
Arjun Sofat, a former analyst at an investment bank, started the company with his mother, Rohini Sofat, in 2017 A mother and son in the UK who ran out of their £15,000 savings while developing a vegan protein supplement started fitting kitchens and installing cupboards to raise money for their first stock. What began as…
Top stocks to buy or sell today on October 9, 2026 Stock market recommendations: Axis Bank, and Authum Investment & Infrastructure Ltd have been recommended as the top stocks to buy today on October 9, 2026 by Hitesh Rathi, Technical Analyst (Equity & Derivatives) at Angel One. Meanwhile, Dixon is a sell call according to…
Former Pakistan cricketer Rashid Latif paid tribute to veteran actor Nana Patekar, who passed away on Thursday, recalling how their conversations began during the Singer Trophy in Colombo in 1994 and continued for years.“I used to speak with him regularly, and it continued for many days. When we were in Colombo in 1994 for the…
Australia A beat India A by 69 runs in the second match. (Pic credit: X) India A’s top-order woes continued to haunt them as Australia A registered a 69-run victory in the second one-day match on Friday to take an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-match series.Josh Philippe and Sam Konstas struck aggressive half-centuries to…
Patagonia National Park represents one part of a much larger effort by the Tompkinses to protect land across Chile and Argentina (Image Credit: Linde Waidhofer) A vast Chilean ranch once used for livestock farming took a different path when Kris Tompkins arranged for her nonprofit, Conservación Patagónica, to acquire the property in 2004. The conservation…
The makers of ‘Ramayana’ has released two fresh character posters, with Lara Dutta playing Queen Kaikeyi and Sheeba Chadha as Manthara. The posters spotlight two crucial figures and hint at the turn of events that will alter Lord Rama’s destiny forever. Through them, audiences get their first look at two characters whose roles are closely…
Imagine waking up on your birthday to find a cake waiting outside your hotel room, even though you never ordered one or told anyone you wanted a celebration. For Filippo Facioni, a hotel guest in Shenzhen, China, this unexpected moment became a birthday surprise he was quick to share online. Facioni was taken by surprise…
