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NEW DELHI: Election Commission Friday sought a report from the West Bengal chief electoral officer on the recent statement by chief minister Mamata Banerjee at a public meeting in Naxalbari, Darjeeling, allegedly instigating local women to be at polling booths and use household kitchen items to deal with “necessary situations”.With her statement seen as a…

NEW DELHI: The petroleum ministry on Friday increased the allocation of commercial LPG to states by 20% to meet additional demand from industrial units such as steel, automobile, textile and chemicals.With this increase, the total allocation of commercial LPG has now reached 70% of pre-conflict levels.In a letter to chief secretaries of states and UTs,…

NEW DELHI: Unlawful occupation and encroachment of govt land and public premises would attract heavy fine as well as jail — proposes the second edition of the Jan Vishwas Bill that seeks to curb this menace by linking penalty to value of land, in addition to six months prison.The bill — introduced in Lok Sabha…

J&K CM Omar Abdullah (File photo) SRINAGAR: The J&K govt Friday said it has accelerated the pace of construction of ongoing hydel power projects across the union territory after the Centre placed Indus Water Treaty (IWT) in abeyance.The total installed hydropower capacity in J&K is expected to reach around 11000 MW by 2035 from the…

Bob Blackman (File photo) LONDON: British MP Bob Blackman has described research by an independent non-profit research organisation in the US, which found that anti-Indian rhetoric surged online last year, as “deeply concerning”.Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI), which specialises in tracking extremism and misinformation on social media, found that anti-Indian rhetoric on X tripled in…

The FBI has officially acknowledged that Iranian-linked hackers targeted the personal email account of its director, Kash Patel, confirming the breach but moving quickly to downplay its significance. The breach was first reported by Reuters on Friday, March 27, with the Iran-linked hacker group Handala Hack Team claiming responsibility. The group posted extensive material on…

Iran-linked hackers have reportedly claimed that they broke into the personal email inbox of FBI Director Kash Patel and published a series of private photographs and documents online, marking one of the most sophisticated cyberattacks on a sitting US law enforcement chief. According to a report by news agency Reuters, the claim was made on…

US Vice President JD Vance confronted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a tense phone call this week, challenging what he viewed as overly optimistic claims about the war in Iran. According to Axios, the exchange laid bare growing unease within the Trump administration over how the conflict was initially presented and how it is…

NEW DELHI: US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) director Kash Patel‘s email was hacked, as claimed by Iran-linked hackers publicly on Friday.The hackers got access to Patel’s personal inbox, with photographs of the ⁠director and ‌his purported resume, as reported by Reuters. On its website, the hacker group Handala Hack Team said Patel “will now…

NEW DELHI: Pilots flying certain categories of VVIPs including Z+ category SPG protectees, Lok Sabha speaker, Rajya Sabha deputy chairperson, central ministers of cabinet rank, Chief Justice of India, CMs, governors and state ministers of cabinet rank, have now been empowered to put their foot down and refuse to fly if it is not safe…