Author: Justin M. Larson
With Sindoor focus, BJP eyes TMC’s core female vote bank KOLKATA: The era of “appeasement politics” in Bengal is over as BJP primes itself to form the next government in 2026 with the supportThe era of “appeasement politics” in Bengal is over as BJP primes itself to form the next government in 2026 with the support of its core Hindu constituency and women voters moving away from CM Mamata Banerjee’s party, home minister Amit Shah said Sunday while echoing a sentiment ignited by PM Narendra Modi in north Bengal last week.“Bengal’s women won’t tolerate any insult to sindoor,” Shah declared…
Chilaw Marians Cricket Club v Tamil Union Cricket and Athletic Club Source link
For Indian students, US dreams suddenly in doubt India, the country that sends more students to the US than any other, young people who had hoped to pursue higher education in America this fall described feeling in a state of limbo after the Trump administration’s decision to pause interviews with foreign nationals applying for student visas.Some are scrubbing their feeds, deleting comments and unfollowing accounts after the state department said that it would screen social media use. Others are exchanging news and information in newly formed encrypted group chats. And some have sought divine aid in “visa temples” – so…
Durham Women 122/10 * v Lancashire Women 140/7 Source link
SHAMLI: A 20ft-long iron borewell pipe having a diameter of around 8 inches was detected on Delhi-Saharanpur railway track by an alert loco pilot in the nick of time, averting a major train tragedy on Saturday night. Several medium- to large-sized stones were also found on the tracks. Notably, this was the fourth such attempt of sabotaging of train operations in Uttar Pradesh in May.Last week, there was an attempt to derail the New Delhi-Bhubaneswar Tejas Rajdhani express when an unknown person kept ballast on the tracks between Bheerpur and Meja Road railway stations.Two attempts to derail the Delhi-Dibrugarh Rajdhani…
Essex Women 149/7 v Somerset Women 84/10 * Source link
File photo: Chhattisgarh CM Vishnu Deo Sai applying ’tilak’ to a security personnel as he congratulated them on the fight against naxals (Picture credit: ANI) RAIPUR: Chhattisgarh CM Vishnudeo Sai said targeted welfare programmes and sustained security ops have dismantled Maoist networks across Bastar and laid the groundwork for enduring peace. In an interview with TOI, Sai declared a turning point after 18 months of intense counter-insurgency efforts. “Our approach combines robust security measures with a strong emphasis on addressing root causes through development & inclusive policies. We aim to achieve a Naxal-free Chhattisgarh by March 31, ’26.” Not only…
Sussex Women 148/2 v Gloucestershire Women 121/4 * Source link
NEW DELHI: A Delhi court observed that a case in which the judgment was rendered by a foreign court, and was also sub judice in India, must be heard at length. The court of Additional Sessions Judge Sumit Dass made the observation on May 5 while hearing the submissions of Shravan Gupta, an accused in a money laundering case. Gupta was convicted by a court in Abu Dhabi last year for the same offences as charged by the Enforcement Directorate – fraud, deception, and embezzlement. Gupta and six others, including a private company, filed a revision petition against a magisterial…
Middlesex Women 79/6 * v Glamorgan Women 77/10 Source link
Ayushman enrolments see dip as private hospitals back off over rates, delays (Picture credit: PTI) NEW DELHI: Empanelment of hospitals under the Ayushman Bharat-PM Jan Arogya Yojana has dropped significantly, from an average of 316 per month in 2024 to 111 per month in 2025, as of April.Data shared by National Health Authority (NHA) on scheme’s dashboard shows that 443 hospitals were empanelled under the AB-PMJAY across India in four months – 161 in Jan, 187 in Feb, 40 in March and 55 in April. In May, the latest update shows, 20 hospitals were empanelled.Many healthcare associations point out that…
President Trump reposted another user’s claim that the former president had been “executed” in 2020 and replaced by a robotic clone. Source link
Northamptonshire Women 123/8 v Leicestershire Women 115/5 * Source link
The Russian defence ministry confirmed on Sunday that the Ukrainian drone strikes targeted 5 airbases across the country, damaging an unspecified number of aircrafts.In a statement, the Russian defence ministry accused Kyiv of carrying out “a terror attack with the use of FPV drones on airfields in the Murmansk, Irkutsk, Ivanovo, Ryazan, and Amur Regions.”“All terror attacks on military airfields in the Ivanovo, Ryazan, and Amur Regions were repelled,” the ministry added.For the first time, it was officially confirmed that some of the drone launches took place from within close proximity to airfields. According to Russian officials, the Olenogorsk airfield…
England 312/7 * v West Indies 308/10 Source link
This is an AI-generated image, used for represntational purposes only. NEW DELHI: Pakistan is staring at a bleak kharif (summer crops) sowing season with a major dip in live storage at its two key dams – Mangla on river Jhelum and Tarbela on Indus – and the “sudden decrease” in Chenab river inflows due to regulation of water flow by India in the aftermath of the Pahalgam terror attack.The situation may further aggravate this month during early kharif sowing and this is possibly what prompted Pakistani PM Shehbaz Sharif to raise concerns at a conference on glacier preservation in Dushanbe,…
More than 25,000 people across central Canada have been forced to leave their homes to escape dozens of wildfires that have reduced air quality and visibility there and in some US states along the border.Around 17,000 people living in Manitoba, a province in central Canada, which declared a state of emergency last week, were relocated, along with about 8,000 in neighbouring Saskatchewan and roughly 1,300 from Alberta. However, officials have warned that more could follow. Saskatchewan’s Public Safety Agency said air quality and visibility due to wildfire smoke “can fluctuate over short distances and can vary considerably from hour to…
The PBKS captain scored an unbeaten 41-ball 87 to take his team to their second IPL final and first since 2014 Source link
File photo: PM Modi (Picture credit: ANI) NEW DELHI: For the first time in six years, PM Modi is unlikely to be a part of the G7 summit being hosted by Canada this year from June 15-17. There’s no official invite yet from Canada for the meeting in Alberta but Modi in all likelihood would not have travelled there in any case, especially when India still isn’t sure the new government in Ottawa will be more receptive to its concerns about Khalistani separatists.A Canadian G7 spokesperson didn’t confirm to TOI late on Sunday if Modi was going to be invited.…
England great breaks records en route to format best, as he throws weight behind Brook’s leadership Source link
File photo: Former Bangladeshi PM Sheikh Hasina DHAKA: Prosecutors at Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) on Sunday formally charged former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and two others with crimes against humanity and other charges, including mass murder, for their alleged role in a violent crackdown last year in which hundreds of people were killed.The other two charged for the crimes with Hasina are former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal and former inspector general of police (IGP) Chowdhury Abdullah Al Mamun.”We do hereby take into cognisance the charges,” the three-judge ICT bench led by Justice Golam Mortuza Majumdar said after a…
RCB have played three finals previously; PBKS have made it to the final only once before Source link
Punjab Kings skipper Shreyas Iyer celebrates with teammates after the win. (Pic credit: IPL) TimesofIndia.com in Ahmedabad: Shashank Singh, in an exclusive interview with TimesofIndia.com, had given Shreyas Iyer a new moniker: Punjab Kings’ “captain fantastic.” “He has his own swag, he has his own aura, and he backs his own instinct,” Shashank, who had played with Iyer in age-group cricket in Mumbai, had to say about his IPL captain.On Sunday, in a rain-affected Qualifier 2, Shreyas Iyer displayed everything that Shashank was talking about. He didn’t celebrate his half-century; he batted with surety, and it looked like he was…
For the first time in their history, Mumbai couldn’t defend a total in excess of 200 Source link
