New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Thursday upheld a trial court’s order declaring UK-based arms consultant Sanjay Bhandari a “fugitive economic offender” in a money laundering case. Justice Neena Bansal Krishna found no merit in the appeal filed by the fugitive and dismissed it. In July 2025, a trial court declared Bhandari a “fugitive…

Silchar: BSF personnel deployed vehicles and opened border gates early on Thursday to help at least 70 families living across the barbed wire fence along the Indo-Bangladesh border in Assam’s Sribhoomi district to reach polling stations and cast their votes, making the exercise a powerful claim of identity for residents of Karimganj South assembly constituency….

KOLKATA: The parents of Sunali Khatun, 26, a Bengali woman pushed to Bangladesh as “illegal immigrants” last year, have their names on the electoral roll, strengthening her claim to citizenship even as a legal battle continues to move her husband and other relatives to the neighboring country.Sunali’s mother Jyotsna Bibi was among the millions “under…

Assembly elections in Assam, Kerala and Puducherry on Thursday saw a record voter turnout, with Election Commission officials describing it as a “validation” of intensive revision and revision of voter lists and a sign of people’s “unwavering confidence in the electoral process”. Voter turnout exceeded previous peaks – reaching an all-time high of 91.2% in…