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Bihar deputy chief minister and BJP leader Samrat Chaudhary on Saturday hit out at the Mahagathbandhan, saying the alliance is plagued by confusion and internal conflict.Chaudhary said that candidates within the alliance are fighting among themselves and that no proper seat-sharing arrangement has been made.“In Mahagathbandhan there is confusion and internal conflict as candidates from…

Diwali celebrations were disrupted for hundreds of passengers hoping to reunite with family in India, after an Air India Dreamliner faced a technical snag at Milan airport on Friday.Flight AI138 from Milan to Delhi, scheduled for October 17, was cancelled due to an extended technical requirement on the Boeing 787-8 aircraft. Most of the 250…

RANCHI: Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) general secretary Supriyo Bhattacharya said that there are “contradictions” within the National Democratic Alliance and Mahagathbandhan.The JMM leader said that they will review the alliance in the State.Bhattacharya told reporters on Saturday, “…There are contradictions within the NDA as well as within the Mahagathbandhan. There is infighting in many seats…We…

NEW DELHI: Union home minister Amit Shah on Saturday said that while infiltration has stopped in BJP-ruled Assam, it continues in neighbouring West Bengal, claiming that the state government is giving a “red carpet welcome” to illegal immigrants.Addressing a media conclave in Patna, Shah also mocked Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for dropping the allegation of…

Players across all ages at a Scrabble tournament in Delhi It was once a gentle, afternoon pastime. But, for an increasing number of players, making up words on a board is a serious pursuit — for which they crisscross the country and even go abroad, writes Avijit GhoshIn a chandelier-lit basement of a south Delhi…

Thirty years of ‘Diwale Dulhania Le Jayenge’, the film that invited a subset of urbane women to ‘come fall in love’. My qualifications to trace its journey involve being an accidental chronicler of the economics and mathematics of Shah Rukh Khan and his female fans. For fifteen years, I thought I was interviewing women about…

NEW DELHI: In a remarkable scientific achievement, India’s Chandrayaan-2 lunar orbiter has made the first-ever observation of the effects of the Sun’s Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) on the Moon, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said on Saturday.The finding was made using Chandra’s Atmospheric Composition Explorer-2 (CHACE-2), one of the scientific instruments onboard the orbiter….

NEW DELHI: China Eastern Airlines will be the first Chinese carrier to resume direct India flights after an over five-year lull with a thrice-weekly service between Shanghai and Delhi from November 9. IndiGo is the first Indian carrier that will resume China service with a daily between Kolkata & Guangzhou from October 26 and then…

Union minister Giriraj Singh Union Minister Giriraj Singh on Saturday expressed confidence that the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) is set for a decisive victory in the upcoming Bihar Assembly elections, while criticising the opposition bloc, Mahagathbandhan, for being fragmented. Singh said, “dil ke tukde hazaar huye, koi yahan gire, koi wahan gire.”He further asserted, “In…

Arvind Kejriwal (Photo credit: ANI) NEW DELHI: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convenor Arvind Kejriwal participated in a Diwali get-together organised by the party’s women’s wing at its headquarters on Saturday.In a post on social media platform X, Kejriwal shared that he met with mothers and sisters at the event and extended heartfelt wishes for…