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Published on: Sept 15, 2025 09:31 pm IST While police said after post mortem examination that both the BJP workers had accidentally died of electrocution, their families and the party brought charges of communal killings Kolkata: The Calcutta high court on Monday directed the West Bengal government to form a medical board to examine the discrepancies found in the reports of two post mortem examinations done on two Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers killed in East Midnapore district in July, lawyers who attended the hearing said. The Calcutta high court. (File) “The division bench of justices Debangsu Basak and Md…

Lisa Cook is the first Black woman to serve on the Federal Reserve’s governing board in the central bank’s history. Cook became a target for President Trump, after a Trump ally accused Cook of making false statements on a mortgage application. Cook has denied any wrongdoing. Drew Angerer/Getty Images North America hide caption toggle caption Drew Angerer/Getty Images North America A federal appeals court has blocked President Trump from firing a member of the Federal Reserve’s governing board, just ahead of a key vote on interest rates. On a two-to-one vote, the divided court upheld an earlier decision from a…

Here are the key events on day 1,300 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.Published On 16 Sep 202516 Sep 2025Click here to share on social mediashare2ShareHere is how things stand on Tuesday, September 16 :Fighting A Ukrainian drone attack killed two women in the village of Golovchino in Russia’s Belgorod region, Russia’s state TASS news agency reports. A man who was seriously injured in a Ukrainian drone attack in Russia’s Belgorod region in April has died in hospital, TASS reports. TASS also reported that Russian forces shot down 82 Ukrainian drones in a 24-hour period. Russian forces have captured the village…

Israel has bombed and destroyed the tallest residential building in Gaza, the Al-Ghafri high-rise, as it launched a massive wave of strikes on Gaza City on Monday evening, forcing hundreds of thousands of residents to continue to flee the city.Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory, says Israel is using unconventional weapons to forcibly evict Palestinians from Gaza City, the largest urban centre in the enclave.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listIsraeli media source Channel 12 reported that “exceptionally intense air strikes” were concentrated in the city’s north and west, while the Palestinian Civil…

KOLKATA: Differences between Anubrata Mondal and Kajal Sheikh, the two heavyweight leaders of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) in Bengal’s Birbhum district, surfaced on Monday at a meeting convened by the party’s national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee at his Kolkata office, people aware of the matter said. Birbhum: TMC leader Anubrata Mondal (PTI) “Banerjee called members of the TMC Birbhum core committee, including the MLAs and MPs, to his office at Camac Street to discuss strategies for the 2026 assembly polls. During the discussions, Mondal got into an argument with Sheikh, who is widely seen as his arch rival,” a party…

President Donald Trump signs a memorandum titled “Restoring Law and Order in Memphis” and Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee look on in the Oval Office of the White House. (AP Photo) US President Donald Trump, joined by Tennessee’s Republican Governor Bill Lee, on Monday signed an executive order to deploy the National Guard in Memphis in order to combat crime, offering another major test of the limits of presidential powers by sending military personnel to American cities. Trump said National Guards would be deployed in Memphis and the personnel will join a special task force in the city which would comprise…

‘If India is serious about closing its gender gap at scale, gender-disaggregated data must become universal and normative’ | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto Women contribute just 18% to India’s GDP today, but continuing with business-as-usual means that trillions of dollars will be left on the table. India’s aspiration to become a $30 trillion economy by 2047 rests on a simple truth: inclusive growth cannot happen if half its population remains invisible in the data that drive policy and investment. Nearly 196 million employable women are outside the workforce. While the Female Labour Force Participation Rate has improved to 41.7%, only…

Sarada Hoffman (1929-2025) | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Alladi Sarada (Sarada Hoffman), born in 1929 in the Adyar Theosophical campus, never allowed anyone to use the title ‘Guru’ before her name, instead always preferred to be called ‘Sarada Teacher.’ Resident students at Kalakshetra also lovingly identified her as ‘Chinna Sarada’ because the senior scholar, S. Sarada, her elder contemporary, was also guiding all of us through a comprehensive education in naatya. Chinna Sarada is known for her uncompromising precision as a Bharatanatyam artiste herself, as well as an exemplary teacher who is instrumental in creating and standardising a Kalakshetra methodology…

Childhood non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are fast emerging as one of Maharashtra’s gravest public health challenges, with experts warning that the State is in the grip of a “silent epidemic” that threatens children’s futures and the healthcare system.At a workshop organised by UNICEF India and the Press Information Bureau (PIB) in Mumbai on Monday (September 15, 2025), data revealed the scale of the crisis.Maharashtra has more than 6 million overweight children, including 2.4 million classified as obese. Each year, nearly 2,000 new cases of Type 1 diabetes are reported, alongside 20,000 to 25,000 cases of congenital heart disease. Respiratory illness is…

Vice President JD Vance hosted Charlie Kirk’s radio program Monday — following last week’s murder of the conservative activist.