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PA Chandranath Rath (inset) of Adhikari in North 24 Parganas, Bengal, was shot with a side window damaged. KOLKATA: Motorcycle-borne assailants fatally shot Chandranath Rath, personal assistant of BJP’s Bengali face Subvendu Adhikari, at pointblank range and critically injured another aide, Buddhadev Bera, inside their car in a Madhyamgram lane near Kolkata Airport around 10.20…

VD Satisan, KC Venugopal, Ramesh Chennithala Thiruvananthapuram: The race to pick the Congress MLA chief in Kerala entered a crucial stretch on Wednesday as AICC observers Ajay Maken and Mukul Wasnik arrived in the state to hear the newly elected MLAs. Senior state officials have been asked to remain in New Delhi after Thursday’s meeting,…

New Delhi: Road deaths due to negligence – rash, careless or irresponsible driving – claimed 495 lives every day in 2024, according to the latest National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) report. It said that about 1.81 lakh lives were lost in such accidents, which is about 4.4% more than the previous year.The number of fatalities…

SRINAGAR: The PDP has rejected allegations by rival National Conference that three of its MLAs voted for the BJP in elections to four Rajya Sabha seats in Kashmir in October last year.The current war of words between the NC and the PDP stems from an RTI reply, which says that the Mehbooba Mufti-led party RS…

New Delhi: The Strait of Hormuz is technically open, but commercial shipping is far from normal, according to Anil Devli, chief executive of the Mumbai-based National Shipowners’ Association of India, a nearly century-old body that advocates for much of the country’s shipping industry.With 14 Indian ships stuck in this chokepoint that funnels half of India’s…

India, Japan sign quantum technology, health research cooperation agreement New Delhi: India and Japan on Wednesday strengthened their cooperation in emerging technologies and health research, with both countries exchanging agreements in the fields of quantum science and medical devices during a high-level bilateral meeting in New Delhi.Japan’s Minister of Science and Technology Policy and Minister…

New Delhi: The Congress on Wednesday extended its support to actor-politician Vijay’s TVK after it emerged as the single largest party in the Tamil Nadu assembly elections, but failed to cross the majority mark.In a letter, the party, which won 5 seats in the 243-member assembly, said its support to TVK would be conditional on…