NEW DELHI: Union home minister Amit Shah on Friday launched a sharp attack on Mamata Banerjee and her government after a heavy voter turnout in the first phase of the West Bengal Assembly elections, claiming the people of the state had voted for change and that the Bharatiya Janata Party was heading for an absolute…
KPMG has announced to cut about 10% of its US audit partners after earlier efforts to encourage voluntary retirements did not deliver the expected results, according to a Financial Times report. The decision was shared during an internal meeting, where employees were told that the size of the audit partnership had grown larger than needed…
NEW DELHI: The Gauhati high court on Friday rejected Congress leader Pawan Khera’s anticipatory bail plea in a case filed by Riniki Bhuyan Sharma, wife of Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma.The FIR stems from Khera’s allegations that Sharma held multiple foreign passports and undisclosed overseas assets. During the previous hearing, Khera’s counsel, led by…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday shared pictures of himself spending time on the banks of the Hooghly river in Kolkata and taking a boat ride.In the visuals shared by the Prime Minister, he is seen seated on a wooden boat with a camera in hand, with the Vidyasagar…
CHENNAI: The headline-grabbing turnout of 83.7% masks a quieter reality — actually, fewer people voted than the last two assembly elections.In percentage terms, data till 9.30pm (excluding postal ballots) showed that the city logged a sharp jump from 60% in 2021 and 61.2% in 2016. But in absolute terms, only 23.7 lakh votes were polled…
Cyber criminals hacked into the Sri Lankan finance ministry’s computer system and siphoned off $2.5 million, the government said Thursday, the most amount of cash ever stolen by hackers from a state institution in the debt-saddled country.The cyberattack is a major blow to Sri Lanka, which is recovering from a crippling economic crisis in 2022…
PM Modi and US President Donald Trump (File photo) TOI Correspondent from Washington: US President Donald Trump on Thursday befouled Washington’s already dodgy ties with the two largest countries in the world, reposting a four-page racist screed by a supporter that called India and China “hellholes” and accused them of exploiting America’s birthright citizenship privileges.The…
KOLKATA: The family of celebrated painter Nandalal Bose’s grandson voted Thursday in Santiniketan, but only after two to three attempts despite a tribunal clearing their names following SC intervention, exemplifying the hurdles that citizens had to cross to exercise their rights.Suprabuddha Sen (88) and his wife Deepa Sen (82) were initially made to leave the…
NEW DELHI: Countering the West Bengal government and its CM Mamata Banerjee’s plea that a writ petition filed by ED and its officers is not maintainable as only individuals can claim violation of fundamental rights, the agency told the Supreme Court Thursday that many states, including Bengal, had filed such petitions and these were entertained…
NEW DELHI: In a significant statement, apparently in conflict with the judgment that quashed the Sabarimala Ayyappa temple’s custom of barring entry of women in the 10-50 age group, the Supreme Court on Thursday prima facie agreed that devotees’ right to decide the mode and manner of worshipping God was non-justiciable.SC’s remark came following senior…
