Actor Vijay launched the Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) promising to challenge the DMK, the AIADMK, and the BJP as an independent force. But just before the elections, an online meeting on Friday convened by party organiser Bussy Anand to appoint constituency coordinators turned into an unexpected reality check: many districts reported their inability to find … Read more
2 min readBhubaneswarFeb 22, 2026 06:59 AM IST Police in Odisha’s Kendrapara district on Saturday arrested four teachers and a peon of a private English medium school on charges of allegedly raping a class 7 student for over a year. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW VIDEO The incident came to light after the minor victim narrated the … Read more
IN 2018, the Catholic church in Kerala was gripped by an unprecedented crisis. A rape complaint against Bishop Franco Mulakkal, then head of the church’s Jalandhar diocese, had set off protests across the state. Away from the sloganeering and speeches, at St Francis Mission Home, a two-storeyed convent set deep inside a canopy of fruit … Read more
Chief of Defence Staff General Anil Chauhan said Tuesday that Pakistan wanted to bring India “to its knees in 48 hours” with Operation Bunyan al-Marsoos on May 10, but the attacks “folded up in 8 hours” after which Pakistan “picked up the telephone and said they wanted to talk”. He made these remarks while delivering … Read more
Odisha’s Vigilance Directorate on Friday seized assets worth crores, including Rs 2.56 crore in cash, during a search operation at the residence of a state government engineer, one day before his retirement. According to officials, the engineer tried to dispose of the cash by throwing bundles of Rs 500 notes out of the windows of … Read more
She was killed while working as a receptionist at a resort run by Pulkit. His employees, Saurabh Bhaskar and Ankit Gupta, were also handed life terms. After the sentencing by the court of the Additional District and Sessions Judge, Ankita’s father Virendra Bhandari told The Indian Express that the family was hoping that the accused … Read more
The Gujarat Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) on Saturday arrested a 28-year-old health worker from the border district of Kutch, alleging his involvement in espionage activities on behalf of a Pakistani intelligence officer. The case marks the third such arrest from Gujarat for alleged spying in the past eight months. The accused, Sahdevsinh Deepubha Gohil, a contractual … Read more
The CBI filed a chargesheet against seven people, including former Jammu and Kashmir governor Satya Pal Malik, on Thursday in connection with alleged corruption in the award of a contract for a hydel project in Kishtwar district. CBI sources identified the other six accused as M S Babu, MD of Chenab Valley Power Projects Pvt … Read more
Rubio, who spoke to Munir, said that he “offered US assistance in starting constructive talks in order to avoid future conflicts.” This was the first direct contact between the US administration and the Pakistan Army Chief, the man at the centre of Pakistan’s hostile actions against India. In fact, it was Munir’s inflammatory rhetoric on … Read more
As Indian stock markets plunged 5 per cent, Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi on Monday said that while US President Donald Trump “has blown the lid off the illusion”, Prime Minister Narendra Modi “is nowhere to be seen”. “Trump has blown the lid off the illusion. Reality is biting back. PM Modi is nowhere … Read more