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Adhir Ranjan calculated move, however, has raised eyebrows of the Left and ISF which see the Trinamul and the BJP as common enemies in the poll battle. (Photo: PTI)

Congress offers support to Mamata Banerjee if 22 TMC candidates pull...

WB Congress chief Adhir Ranjan, made the conditional offer to the TMC chief in wake of her open letter to UPA...

5 April 2021 4:48 AM IST

CRPF personnel carry the coffin of a paramilitary soldier who lost his life in an encounter with Maoists, in Bijapur district of Chhattisgarh, Sunday, April 04, 2021. (PTI)

Maoists used rockets on securiy personnel in Chhattisgarh; Toll at 22

Around 2,000 jawans were mobilized from five camps of security forces in Sukma and Bijapur districts to launch...

4 April 2021 4:20 PM IST

A health worker collects a nasal sample from a passenger for COVID-19 test, amid coronavirus pandemic, in New Delhi on April 2, 2021. (PTI/Kamal Kishore)

India records this year's biggest single-day jump of 93,249 COVID-19...

This is the biggest daily rise in cases since September 19, when 93,337 fresh infections were recorded

4 April 2021 10:42 AM IST

If the BJP, now in power at the Centre, could run the vaccination programme as efficiently as it seeks to run elections, we could perhaps see light at the end of this dark tunnel. (Photo: AFP)

Pavan K Varma | If only BJP were as good at vaccination as it's at...

The government I am sure is doing its best, but its best falls short, I am sorry to say, of the optimum

4 April 2021 4:52 AM IST

The ED is probing the money-laundering aspect of the alleged ponzi scam since April, 2013. (file photo: PTI)

ED attaches assets of TMC leaders in Saradha case

The Saradha group allegedly cheated thousands of depositors, promising abnormally high returns on investments in its...

4 April 2021 4:38 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses an election campaign rally in support of BJP alliance party candidates of United People Party Liberal (UPPL) ahead of the third phase of Assam Assembly Elections, at Laupara in Baksa district. (Photo: PTI)

PM Modi urges militants to join mainstream in Assam

Modi appealed to militants to lay down their arms and join the mainstream in order to build a peaceful and Aatmanirbhar...

4 April 2021 4:31 AM IST

The encounter took place near Jonagunda village situated along the Sukma-Bijapur border when a joint team of security forces were out on a counterinsurgency operation. (Photo: PTI)

Five jawans killed in Maoist ambush in Chhattisgarh's Bastar

This was the second major attack on security personnel by Naxals in Bastar in the last 10 days

4 April 2021 4:20 AM IST

Shashi Warrier | Of everyone's friends' and being a public enemy

The other day there was a message on WhatsApp that our MLA would be visiting the nearby Primary Health Centre, or PHC,...

4 April 2021 4:19 AM IST

Anita Katyal | Personality cult infiltrates Left; leaked survey'...

While Pinarayi Vijayan is on a roll, the Congress-led UDF is fighting hard to wrest the state from its chief political...

4 April 2021 4:07 AM IST

Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan. (AP)

No trade with India under current circumstances: Pak PM Khan

India has said that it desires normal neighbourly relations with Pakistan in an environment free of terror, hostility,...

3 April 2021 12:54 PM IST

A health worker takes a nasal swab sample to test for COVID-19 near the landmark Gateway of India in Mumbai, on April 2, 2021. (AP/Rajanish Kakade)

India records 89,129 COVID-19 cases, 714 deaths in a day, highest in...

Corresponding to the rapid surge in cases, the number of active cases too have registered a steady increase for the 24th...

3 April 2021 11:23 AM IST

Rajinikanth (Photo: PTI/File)

AA Edit | Right honour, wrong timing

The time chosen by the BJP government to announce a momentous decision like this was monumentally flawed

3 April 2021 8:26 AM IST