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For 67-year-old Gurpreet Ahluwalia, a resident of Bowbazar in central Kolkata, West Bengal has been the only home he has ever known. Ahluwalia's father, who had his roots in Peshawar (currently in Pakistan), migrated to Kolkata after the Partition in 1947.Ahluwalia's sentiment is shared by a huge number of ...

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday extended her support of a Sikh IPS officer who was allegedly called "Khalistani" by some Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) activists, saying that the official was only doing his duty and should not have been called a 'Khalistani' just for wearing a ...

England spinner Shoaib Bashir was denied entry to India as a British Pakistani The 20-year-old has flown back to Britain to get his visa rubber stampedHe will miss the first Test against India in Hyderabad, which starts on Thursday By David Lloyd for the Daily Mail Published: 22:30 GMT, 23 January ...

It appears an open season has been declared for extraterritorial air, missile, and drone strikes. If Vladimir Putin kicked off the most brutal round of warfare this decade with his invasion of Ukraine on February 23, 2022, the Middle East becoming a cauldron of incendiary explosive action across countries, ...

Maldives may be a small country but that does not give anybody the license to “bully” the island nation, said President Mohamed Muizzu upon his return from a five-day state visit to China on Saturday. His remarks came amid a diplomatic row between Malé and New Delhi pertaining to ...

The incipient tensions between India and its tiny neighbour, Maldives, simmering for over a decade, finally came to a head when three junior ministers of the island nation’s government made crude and disparaging remarks on social media about Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the Lakshadweep islands. Once New ...

The social media went on full throttle as the recent visit of PM Narendra Modi to Lakshadweep islands led to a few unsolicited, racist, and derogatory comments from Maldivian politicians and officials.As Indian celebrities and influencers jumped onto social media in support of promoting tourism in Lakshadweep, the furore ...

Amid intense political row over the arrest of Srikanth Poojari who was allegedly involved in the violence after Babri Masjid demotion in 1992, the BJP shared a video of Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah refusing to enter a temple. Calling him anti-Ram, the BJP said this is the real face ...

Overwhelming majority of 153 UN member states call for immediate ceasefire in Gaza NEW YORK CITY: An extremely crowded meeting of the UN General Assembly echoed to the sound of applause on Tuesday after an overwhelming majority of 153 member nations voted in favor of a resolution calling for ...

Mumbai: The Reserve Bank of India on Friday decided to keep the policy rate unchanged at 6.5 per cent for the fifth time in a row as it maintains a tight vigil on inflation. The rate increase cycle was paused in April after six consecutive rate hikes, aggregating to ...