Calcutta HC tells Police Commissioner to file report on attack on lawyers, issues contempt notices to eight protestors

A group of 80 to 100 people protested outside the Calcutta High Court premises and allegedly attacked the chambers of senior lawyers Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya and Firdous Samim. File | Photo Credit: ANI A three-judge Bench of the Calcutta High Court on Friday (May 2, 2025) issued contempt notices against eight people after a mob…

  Pakistan continuing its campaign of ‘state sponsored terror’ in Balochistan: Assam CM

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma. File | Photo Credit: PTI The people of Balochistan are facing a “ruthless campaign” of “state-sponsored terrorism” from the Pakistani authorities, the Chief Minister of Assam, Himanta Biswa Sarma, said on Friday. In a detailed statement posted on ‘X’, Mr. Sarma recollected the suppression of the Baloch nationalist movement…

Erstwhile Visakhapatnam poised to be India’s largest steel-producing district

If all goes well, the erstwhile, undivided district of Visakhapatnam could soon become the largest steel manufacturing district in the country. The largest integrated and shore-based steel maker, Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited (RINL), the corporate entity of the Visakhapatnam Steel Plant (VSP), a fully-owned public sector unit, is already based in Visakhapatnam city, and, soon,…

SSLC results: Teacher couple’s son tops State

Akeel Ahmed Nadaf, a student of Oxford English medium school in Nagarbetta village near Muddebihal in Vijayapura district has emerged as one of the 22 students to score 100 percent marks in SSLC. The only son of school teachers, Akeel has been a good student throughout. He joined the private English medium school after studying…

Palestinian children face starvation under Israel’s total Gaza blockade | Israel-Palestine conflict News

UNICEF says children face ‘growing risk of starvation, illness and death’ as Israel bars food and other aid deliveries. Thousands of Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip are facing an increased threat of starvation, the United Nations has warned, as Israel’s continued blockade of food, water and other critical supplies to the besieged and bombarded…

Tamil Nadu should have its own labour laws: LPF

M. Shanmugam, General Secretary of the Labour Progressive Federation (LPF), a workers’ union affiliated to the DMK, has written to Chief Minister M.K. Stalin urging him to enact the State’s own labour laws. In his letter, Mr. Shanmugam said the scope of the recently constituted High Level Committee on State Autonomy on Centre – State relations…