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Freezing assets only interim step, not forfeiture: Cal HC in NDPS case

Kolkata, Sept. 23 -- Freezing assets is a preliminary step and not a final forfeiture, the Calcutta High Court observed while refusing to stay the seizure of properties alleged to be linked to narcoti... Read More


Patna CWC to focus on polls campaign, 'vote chori'

Patna, Sept. 23 -- As it gets battle-ready for the Bihar Assembly polls, the Congress will hold a meeting of its working committee here on Wednesday for the first time in the state in post-independenc... Read More


Deterrence Through Dialogue

New Delhi, Sept. 23 -- The repeated airspace violations reported by Estonia and Poland in recent weeks underline how fragile Europe's eastern security architecture has become. Three Russian fighter je... Read More


Poodles and Power

New Delhi, Sept. 23 -- The other day, Rajdeep Sardesai and Yogendra Yadav were animatedly facing off on CID Karnataka's 18 letters to the Election Commission. Not one had responded. Result: standstill... Read More


Borders Without Belonging

New Delhi, Sept. 23 -- On September 2, 2025, the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) removed the tag of an "illegal migrant" from registered Sri Lankan Tamil nationals who entered India before Januar... Read More


Beyond Galwan's Shadow

New Delhi, Sept. 23 -- After Prime Minister Narendra Modi's first visit to China in seven years, where he attended the meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) and held a sideline meetin... Read More


Power Games, Human Costs

New Delhi, Sept. 23 -- The Russia-Ukraine war, now in its fourth year, has inflicted untold misery on millions and left both nations' economies in ruins. To grasp the roots of this tragedy, we must lo... Read More


Skilled Migration Dilemma

New Delhi, Sept. 23 -- Tariff pressures compel India to evaluate its policies from multiple perspectives. We cannot continue to have unrestrained brain drain while national interests are prejudiced. I... Read More


Unprecedented downpour paralyses Kolkata: 251 mm rain breaks 4-decade record, 8 dead

Kolkata, Sept. 23 -- The heaviest overnight rainfall in years wreaked havoc across Kolkata, submerging vast areas, bringing public life to a standstill, and claiming at least eight lives through elect... Read More


Mamata accuses BJP of politicising natural calamity, urges restraint

Kolkata, Sept. 23 -- After the BJP circulated photos and videos of waterlogged streets, blaming the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC), Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress (TMC) chairperson ... Read More