A man trapped for more than 24 hours inside one of the high-rise towers at Hong Kong’s Wang Fuk Court residential complex was pulled out alive on Thursday evening, even as the death toll from the devastating blaze climbed to at least 65, fire officials said. The survivor was located on the 16th floor of…
Kolkata: Bengal has emerged as the second most favourite destination, after Maharashtra, for international tourists visiting India, figures released by the Union tourism ministry in the India Tourism Data Compendium 2025 revealed.In domestic travel, the state ranked seventh behind UP, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan and Maharashtra. Kolkata Headlines Today — The Biggest Updates…
Hong Kong fire (AP photo) Hong Kong, one of the world’s major financial centres, saw a tragic incident on Wednesday afternoon when a massive fire swept through high-rise towers. The flames tore through the Wang Fuk Court complex in Tai Po, killing more than 90 people and leaving hundreds injured or missing.As the fire raged,…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Thursday suggested enacting a law on the line of the stringent SC and ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act to deter ridiculing of differently abled people, but the Union govt flagged the potential adverse impact of such legislation on creative artists depicting individuals with disability in movies and theatres.Hearing a petition…
‘Right to free speech must be given the widest width. But in the case of content on social media, prosecution is a post-occurrence proceeding. There should be preventive mechanisms to stop spreading misinformation and damage to society,’ the SC bench said NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Thursday told the information and broadcasting ministry to prepare…
NEW DELHI: The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), which now fully secures the Parliament House complex (PHC), has okayed an extended four-year tenure for its personnel on Parliament security duty, which may be further stretched by a year. The move is aimed at striking the right balance between operational continuity, so as to enhance familiarity…
NEW DELHI: BJP claimed on Thursday that foreign-based influencers in league with Congress, pretending to be neutrals, are behind promoting anti-govt narratives, including over “vote chori” and Operation Sindoor, and personal attacks on PM Narendra Modi, and said Rahul Gandhi is unfit to be a politician in India.BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra cited a new feature…
Calling the death of 26 BLOs over the last 20 days “murder” by BJP brass and CEC, Congress on Thursday alleged that the governing party is seeking to divert attention from “blatant vote chori” by peddling lies about the location of social media ‘X’ handles linked to Congress, arguing that BJP handles too are shown…
Child welfare to the fore (Representative image) ‘They Should Live & Grow Together’ Child welfare to the fore (Representative image) ‘They Should Live & Grow Together’ Child welfare to the fore (Representative image) NEW DELHI: It’s common that when a couple who have two children start living separately due to any matrimonial dispute, the children…
NEW DELHI: Congress general secretary K C Venugopal and RJD MP Manoj Jha on Thursday told Supreme Court that the Election Commission has no power to determine citizenship of a voter, yet through an “unconstitutional” pan-India Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of state electoral rolls is seeking proof of Indian citizenship from voters.Jha’s counsel Kapil Sibal…
