Author: Rahul M

With bus services disrupted due to a transport staff strike, thousands turn to Namma Metro for their daily commute, leading to long queues and increased security.A state-wide transport bandh called by the Joint Action Committee of transport staff disrupted normal bus services across Bengaluru on Monday, leaving thousands of commuters stranded and turning the spotlight on Namma Metro.The strike was led by committee chairman Anant Subbarao, who confirmed that the bandh would be peaceful but firm in pressing for the fulfillment of various pending demands by the state government. As a result, commuters though that the buses would remain off…

KolkataAug 5, 2025 08:56 IST First published on: Aug 5, 2025 at 08:35 IST Share West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee appointed her nephew and second-in-command Abhishek Banerjee the leader of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) parliamentary party on Monday, even as she said, without naming anyone, that two to three MPs were “bringing the party into disrepute” and “no individual is bigger than the organisation”. The TMC chief’s comments came as a feud between MPs Kalyan Banerjee and Mahua Moitra erupted once again, months after they were involved in an altercation on the premises of the Election Commission’s (EC) office…

New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Amit Malviya has defended a Delhi Police communique calling Bengali as a “Bangladeshi language”, saying it was “right” to do so in the context of identifying infiltrators. His long post on X, in which he also argued that there is “no language called Bengali” that covers all its “variants”, triggered a backlash from leaders of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) and the Congress in West Bengal and the Northeast. “Delhi Police is absolutely right in referring to the language as Bangladeshi in the context of identifying infiltrators. The term is being used to describe a…

On Tuesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address a meeting of the BJP-led NDA’s parliamentary party meeting.The NDA meeting comes just days before the filing of nominations for the Vice-President’s election on August 7. After the Monsoon Session ends on August 21, the election will be held on September 9. The meeting comes in the middle of a session that has been all but a washout so far, except for a two-day discussion on the Pahalgam attack and Operation Sindoor, due to a united Opposition’s ceaseless protest against the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar by the…

SrinagarAug 5, 2025 07:13 IST First published on: Aug 5, 2025 at 07:11 IST Share A day before the sixth anniversary of the abrogation of Article 370 that granted Jammu and Kashmir’s special Constitutional status, the Union Territory’s Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said “nothing bad will happen” on Tuesday. His comments came amid a flurry of high-level meetings in Delhi that set the rumour mills abuzz. “I’ve heard every possible permutation & combination about what to expect in J&K tomorrow, so let me stick my neck out and say nothing will happen tomorrow — fortunately nothing bad will happen but…

BERLIN — Russia will no longer abide by a defunct treaty prohibiting the deployment of intermediate-range missiles, the country’s Foreign Ministry announced Monday.But Washington has accused Moscow of violating the pact for over a decade, and Russia has been known to use missiles with ranges banned by the treaty during its war against Ukraine.In a statement, the Russian Foreign Ministry said that Moscow “no longer considers itself bound” by its “previously adopted self restrictions” under the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty, noting that the United States was moving to deploy intermediate-range missiles in Europe and Asia.The U.S. Defense Department did not…

HIROSHIMA, Japan (AP) — Eighty years after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, many of the remaining Japanese survivors are increasingly frustrated by growing nuclear threats and the acceptance of nuclear weapons by global leaders.The U.S. attacks on Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, and three days later on Nagasaki killed more than 200,000 people by the end of that year. Others survived but with radiation illness.About 100,000 survivors are still alive. Many hid their experiences to protect themselves and their families from discrimination that still exists. Others couldn’t talk about what happened because of the trauma they suffered.Some of…

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — After decades of inaction and frozen negotiations, the issue of an independent Palestinian state living in peace with Israel returned to the spotlight at a high-level U.N. conference — and France and Saudi Arabia, which spearheaded the effort, are determined to keep up the momentum.But hurdles for a two-state solution that would see Israel living side-by-side with an independent Palestine are very high.War in Gaza — a crucial part of a hoped-for Palestinian state — drags on with escalating violence in the West Bank, the other main component. And Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his…

SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s Supreme Court on Monday ordered the house arrest for the country’s former President Jair Bolsonaro, on trial for allegedly masterminding a coup plot to remain in office despite his defeat in the 2022 election — a case that has gripped the South American country as it faces a trade war with the Trump administration. Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who oversees the case against Bolsonaro before the top court, said in his decision that the 70-year-old former president had violated precautionary measures imposed on him by posting content on the social media channels of his three…

Paramount Contains spoilers for “The Naked Gun” (2025) Akiva Schaeffer’s reboot-slash-legasequel of “The Naked Gun” is jam-packed from start to finish with so many jokes that viewers might need to watch the movie multiple times in order to catch them all. Every type of humor is there: puns, pratfalls, parodies, references, self-references, dirty jokes, topical jokes, absurdist jokes, meta jokes, tons of background gags, and even joke credits. While “subtle” might not be the proper word to describe anything about a movie as gleefully, brilliantly stupid as “The Naked Gun,” several…