CM Suvendu Adhikari has defended the provision, saying it is intended to target habitual offenders. NEW DELHI: Bengal’s controversial Public Safety and Control of Anti-Social Activities Act, popularly dubbed the ‘Goonda Bill’, came into force after midnight on Monday. The Act empowers the BJP government with sweeping powers including preventive detention, property confiscation and the…
20 years of ‘Corporate’ Madhur Bhandarkar says Bipasha Basu’s performance was National Award worthy, admits he was disappointed the film missed out As ‘Corporate’ completed two decades on July 7, filmmaker Madhur Bhandarkar looked back at the journey of one of his most acclaimed films. While the 2006 drama earned immense appreciation from audiences and…
NEW DELHI: BJP on Monday stepped up its attack on Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, demanding that he explain his recent foreign trip while also accusing him and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra of neglecting the constituency after a landslide in Kerala’s Wayanad claimed eight lives.The landslide occurred on July 7 at the site of the Anakkampoyil-Meppadi twin-tube…
Pic courtesy: X/ @thewalesbrasil Prince William and Catherine, Princess of Wales, brought their two eldest children, Prince George, 12, and Princess Charlotte, 11, to the 2026 Wimbledon men’s final on Sunday, 12 July. Twelve-year-old Prince George sat in the Royal Box at Centre Court in a full suit and tie, even as temperatures climbed into…
The devastating speedboat accident off Vietnam’s Phu Quoc Island has left families grieving across India. But as people continue to process the tragedy, another story is making waves online – this time from a traveller who says she and her family were in the very same waters just hours before the fatal accident.Her Instagram post…
The matter will next be heard on July 20 NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Monday sought a status report from the Uttar Pradesh government-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the alleged embezzlement of donations at the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya. The court also sought a response from the Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust.“We direct SIT…
Elon Musk appears to have unfollowed Meta AI chief Alexandr Wang on X (formerly Twitter), according to a user on the platform. X user BigTechAlert shared a post that said: “@elonmusk is no longer following @alexandr_wang”. In the post, the user also shared a screenshot of profile of both the leaders – Elon Musk and…
Chhaya Sharma IPS: The officer who led the Nirbhaya case investigation with courage and precision When India remembers the 2012 Nirbhaya case, it remembers a tragedy that shook the nation’s conscience and changed conversations around women’s safety. It remembers the protests, the public anger and the demand for justice. But behind one of the country’s…
A young Perth doctor and musician is behind bars after being charged with killing a 63-year-old man in a late-night scuffle several hundred metres from the bustling nightlife strip in Fremantle. The incident has seen the 26-year-old refused bail and remanded in police custody after being hauled before the courts on a manslaughter charge. Here’s…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has a warning for every enterprise buying AI: the moment you start using a model seriously, you begin handing over the very thing that makes your company valuable. In a long post on X on Sunday night, viewed over 5.7 million times, Nadella called it the “Reverse Information Paradox”—and argued the…