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A cyclonic storm will develop in the Bay of Bengal around November 26, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Sunday.Story continues below this ad The cyclone’s probable track or highest likely intensity are yet not available. However, the Met office has warned of heavy to very heavy rainfall (105 – 204mm in 24 hours) to lash the Andaman and Nicobar islands and continue till Tuesday. If intensified the cyclonic storm will be identified as Senyar, a name proposed by the United Arab Emirates (UAE), will be the second cyclone to develop in the Bay of Bengal during this year’s…

New findings in the investigation of the Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) module busted in Faridabad have revealed a highly organised network set up by the arrested terrorists, Dr Muzammil, Dr Shaheen, Dr Adeel and Amir. According to officials, the group was not only arranging weapons but also gathering explosive-making materials with great care and planning. At least 13 people were killed and several others were injured in the car blast near the Red Fort in Delhi. Dr Umar Nabi, driving the car with explosives, committed the attack. The four other main accused, Dr Muzammil Shakeel Ganai of Pulwama. Dr Adeel Ahmed Rather…

The Odisha Police have caught a key person involved in an illegal racket that sheltered Bangladeshi immigrants and used them in unlawful activities. Sikander Alam, known as Seiko, had been avoiding arrest since a police raid on 16th November at a slum in Jagatsinghpur. Police formed a special team that searched various places before arresting him in Jajpur. Seiko will soon be brought to court, a senior police officer said. During the raid, police seized Seiko’s passport and documents, and his younger brother was also arrested in Khurda. Police found that Seiko and others had been trafficking and hiding illegal…

Three months after Congress leader Rahul Gandhi mentioned the Mahadevapura Assembly constituency in south east Bengaluru as among the seats that had seen “vote chori”, a Congress worker has filed a complaint alleging illegal addition of names to voter lists in the region ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.In his presentation, Gandhi had claimed that one lakh names were added to the voter lists of Mahadevapura illegally. Congress worker Y Vinoda, 39, filed the complaint on November 19 with the Whitefield police, stating that she was deeply pained by recent allegations that names of fake voters were added to…

On June 21, 1948, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru wrote to Syama Prasad Mookerjee, who was then a minister in his Cabinet, that Vande Mataram is not feasible as a national anthem “chiefly because of its tune which does not suit orchestral or band rendering”.Nehru told Mookerjee that “Jana Gana Mana, on the other hand, has already been greatly appreciated in foreign countries as well as in India and the music of it has a great appeal to people who hear it in India or abroad”. “Vande Mataram is of course intimately connected with our entire national struggle and we are all…

ShimlaNovember 23, 2025 07:40 AM IST First published on: Nov 23, 2025 at 07:40 AM IST The Congress Saturday appointed Vinay Kumar, a third-time MLA from Shri Renuka Ji Assembly constituency, as the new president of the party’s Himachal Pradesh unit, replacing Pratibha Singh and putting an end to uncertainty that prevailed even since the previous Pradesh Congress Committee was dissolved on November 6 last year. Kumar (47) was the Deputy Speaker of the Vidhan Sabha and tendered his resignation from the post, which was accepted by Speaker Kuldeep Pathania. In an official communication, AICC general secretary (organisation) K C…

Nitish Kumar, who took over as the Bihar Chief Minister for a record 10th time last Thursday, was once seen to have prime ministerial prospects, like Sardar Patel, L K Advani, Pranab Mukherjee or Sharad Pawar, who could not make it to the pinnacle of power.Had Nitish been declared as the convener of the INDIA bloc when it was formed in July 2023, many in the Opposition still believe, the 2024 Lok Sabha poll results might have been different. That may be wishful thinking but, in private, some of them blame the Congress for blocking Nitish’s projection as the INDIA…

Scientists have discovered how to electrically power insulating nanoparticles using molecular antennas, creating exceptionally pure near-infrared LEDs with wide-ranging potential. A newly developed approach uses “molecular antennas” to direct electrical energy into nanoparticles that normally cannot conduct electricity. This advance has led to a completely new category of ultra-pure near-infrared LEDs designed for uses in […]

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — As Franco Parisi tells it, he has suddenly become the most sought-after man in Chile.A populist economist who placed third in Chile’s presidential election last weekend, Parisi told The Associated Press on Saturday that he has been fielding calls all week from left-wing government officials and right-wing opposition leaders. He was even bombarded in a restaurant by a former Cabinet minister, he said.Everyone is after the same thing: Help swaying the crucial 20% of the electorate that backed him last Sunday to vote for one of the two front-runners in Chile’s Dec. 14 runoff election: Communist…

The devil works hard, but Osgood Perkins works harder. The filmmaker (and son of “Psycho” star Anthony Perkins) made his directorial debut back in 2015 with “The Blackcoat’s Daughter,” but lately, he’s been on a hot streak of cranking out one horrific experience after another. He made waves in 2024 with “Longlegs” and came back strong with a one-two punch in 2025, releasing “The Monkey” earlier in the year and “Keeper” in the second half.  “Keeper” stood apart from some of Perkins’ other works in that the marketing kept much of the plot under wraps. It felt…