Defending her base in West Bengal for a fourth term was never going to be easy for Mamata Banerjee, who extended her tenure by five years to 20 years. He was up against a formidable rival, the Bharatiya Janata Party, with its undoubted election-winning organization and vast wealth and its star campaigner Narendra Modi.For five…

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung As he arrived in India for a State visit, South Korean President Lee Jae Myung said Koreas and India must work closely as emerging global leaders amid heightened geopolitical uncertainty, and that the 2 countries can give a new direction to multilateralism when it’s faced with mounting challenges. In…

New Delhi: The opposition on Sunday accused the Prime Minister Narendra Modi It stepped up attacks on her for shedding “crocodile tears” over the women quota, giving “political speeches in the guise of addressing the nation”. For 29 minutes on Doordarshan highlighting the Prime Minister’s “venom spewing” against the opposition, Congress spokesperson Supriya Sreena said,…

KOLKATA: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has sharpened his attack on the Trinamool Congress, announcing at rallies across Bengal that “mothers and sisters” will call for “maha-punishment” to block the women’s reservation bill and “maha-punishment” for calling voters “maha-jangalraj”, reports Rohit Khanna. Addressing four rallies in six hours – in Bankura’s Barjora, Purulia, Jhargram and Medinipur…

BENGALURU: A small, dissolvable tube developed in a Bengaluru lab is moving a step closer to hospital use, offering a way to avoid repeat procedures after major abdominal surgery.The device, called the “Asthana Stent”, is the result of a collaboration between researchers led by liver transplant surgeon Sonal Asthana of Aster CMI Hospital and Kaushik…