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KOLKATA: A 28-year-old man was arrested on Thursday on charges of desecrating an idol of Goddess Kali in the remote Kakdwip area of South 24 Parganas district, which led the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to launch a stinging attack on the Mamata Banerjee government.Police said the suspect was drunk when he damaged the idol.“Based on intelligence inputs, a person identified as Narayan Halder,28, son of Bhupati Halder, was apprehended and arrested. During interrogation, he confessed to his involvement and expressed remorse for his actions. It was determined that he was in an inebriated state during the incident that led to…

The debate around the rising cost of entourage has taken over the Hindi film industry, and director Kiran Rao admits the high cost of teams is one of the reasons that pushes her tow work with newcomers. She launched three new actors–Nitanshi Goel, Pratibha Ranta and Sparsh Shrivastava–with Laapataa Ladies last year, and she asserts that they came without any such baggage.Kiran Rao (Photo: PTI)“Organically, they just fit the scenario of an independent film and I make films that way. Even if the budgets have grown from Dhobi Ghat to Laapataa Ladies, in spirit, my filmmaking is very independent, the…

The New York Times, in a recent article, discussed the chronic absenteeism among Harvard students, citing varied reasons that have led to disengagement from critical reading—once a hallmark of its legacy. Similarly, The Guardian (March 2025) reported that 170,000 children in England missed at least half of their classes.Furthermore, according to a 2024 survey on absenteeism conducted by the Association of Colleges (England) across one-third of its member institutions (68 colleges), around 88% of students identified poor mental health as one of the top three reasons for their absence in 2023–24—1.76 times higher than the rate reported in 2019–20.Chronic absenteeism…

South Korea said Friday there was a “considerable” chance that US President Donald Trump could meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during his visit to the Korean Peninsula next week, fueling speculation about a possible revival of the two leaders’ once headline-grabbing diplomacy. US President Donald Trump, left, meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the North Korean side of the border at the village of Panmunjom in Demilitarized Zone, on June 30, 2019.(AP File) “North Korea appears to be paying attention to the United States, and various signs suggest a considerable possibility of a meeting,” South…

Lakshya Rajesh and Diksha Sudhakar reached the pre-quarterfinals in the girls’ singles with contrasting wins while Jagsher Singh Khangurra made the same stage in the boys’ event on day two of the Badminton Asia U-17 & U-15 Championships, here. In the U-17 girls’ singles, Lakshya eased past Chinese Taipei’s Kuan Yi Lin 21-17, 21-11, while Diksha produced a strong comeback to beat China’s Luo Ya Ru 17-21, 21-16, 21-11 in her match on Wednesday. Among the boys, Jagsher impressed with a commanding 21-14, 21-17 victory over China’s Zhang Yu Feng.. India’s doubles contingent also looked sharp.. The girls’ doubles pair…

Anthropic said it chose the TPUs due to their price-performance ratio and efficiency [File] | Photo Credit: REUTERS Anthropic is expanding its deal with Google to use as many as one million of the tech giant’s artificial intelligence chips, worth tens of billions of dollars, as the startup races to advance its AI systems in the competitive market.Under the deal announced on Thursday, Anthropic will have access to more than one gigawatt of computing capacity, coming online in 2026, to train the next generations of its Claude AI model on Google’s in-house tensor processing units, or TPUs, which were traditionally…

After the operation of holding areas at the New Delhi Railway station for effective crowd management during the ongoing festive rush, Indian Railways has planned to develop permanent Yatri Suvidha kendras at 76 high density stations across the country to facilitate smooth passenger movement and avoid any untoward incidents. In an order issued to all the zonal railways, the Railway Board gave an 11-point action plan for the development of the holding area. According to officials, RITES limited, an engineering firm under the Ministry of Railways will design and Rail Land Development Authority (RLDA) will develop these areas. “Indian Railways…

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Thursday (local time) claimed that India, along with China, has begun scaling back purchases of Russian oil at the request of US President Donald Trump, as Washington rolled out a fresh round of sanctions against Moscow’s two largest oil companies.Prime Minister Narendra Modi (L), US President Donald Trump (C) and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin. (AFP file)”If you read the sanctions and look at them, they’re pretty hefty. I saw some international news this morning that China is scaling back oil purchases from Russia. We know India has done the same at the president’s…

HyderabadOctober 24, 2025 08:55 AM IST First published on: Oct 24, 2025 at 08:30 AM IST All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) supremo and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi has a question which his party’s former ally, the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS), has not yet answered. “Where is the BRS’s vote?” Owaisi asked during a conversation with The Indian Express. “The BRS’s vote share has fallen drastically from 34.7% to 15% (between the 2019 and 2024 Lok Sabha elections). How can there be such a huge fall?” he asked a day after his party announced that it would support the Congress’s Naveen…

The Delhi Police Special Cell on Friday said it has busted an ISIS module and arrested two suspected terrorists who were allegedly undergoing training for “fidayeen” (suicide) attacks, news agency ANI reported.The Delhi Police Special Cell said it has busted an ISIS module and arrested two suspected terrorists. (HT file)According to police, one of the arrested suspects is a resident of Delhi, while the other hails from Madhya Pradesh.This is a developing story. More details are awaited.