ED investigation into a Kolkata-based aviation company. NEW DELHI: An ED investigation into a Kolkata-based aviation company has found that the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress allegedly funded Rs 160 crore from the party’s coffers to a little-known firm, Carewell Aviation India Pvt Ltd, to buy an Embraer jet and an Agusta VIP helicopter, which it […]
In 1993, Chile adopted an Indigenous Law that enabled land restitution In 1993, Chile passed a major Indigenous Law that created a formal process for returning ancestral land to Indigenous communities. Over the following 30 years, more than 510,000 acres were returned to the Mapuche, Chile’s largest Indigenous group. However, a long-term study found that […]
Lucknow: The colours, sounds and flavours of the season came alive in the city on Sunday as Lucknow Bioscope, Sanatkada and Naimatkhana hosted ‘Sawan Ki Bahaar’, a day-long celebration dedicated to Awadh’s rich monsoon traditions.The event brought together crafts, music, storytelling and seasonal cuisine, recreating a cultural landscape in which the arrival of rains shaped […]
Bedfordshire farm was saved through public donations after a successful £1.5m crowdfunding campaign An English farmer who stopped intensive wheat farming in 1988 has unintentionally helped create one of central England’s largest young woodland nature reserves, reports the Guardian. Strawberry Hill, a 377-acre site near Knotting in Bedfordshire, has now been permanently protected after the […]
Pape Gueye and Nicolas Pepe pulled the visitors level against the hosts from Cantabria.© X (Twitter) Villarreal needed two goals in just over a minute to snatch a 2-2 draw at promoted side Racing Santander on Sunday in their opening La Liga clash. The hosts claimed an early lead but Inigo Perez took […]
Cambridge professor Jason Arday’s death sparks 31,000-signature petition over press harassment More than 31,000 people, including several MPs, have signed a petition calling for a public inquiry into alleged media harassment of the late Cambridge academic Jason Arday, campaign organisers said Sunday.The petition was launched by activist group Good Law Project, which had supported Arday […]
Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar. File | Photo Credit: ANI Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar on Sunday (August 16, 2026) said that the ‘successful’ conduct of Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls in Bihar last year helped to increase the voter turnout in the State Assembly election that followed. Mr. Kumar landed in Patna […]
Pakistan Women have their sights set on a fresh start after the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) announced the 15-member squads for the Women’s Asia Cup 2026 and the women’s cricket event at the 20th Asian Games on Sunday. Regular captain Fatima Sana returns to lead Pakistan in both tournaments after missing the recent T20I series […]
55-year-old man dies by dog bite in West Yorkshire, UK. A 55-year-old man has died after being bitten by a dog during an altercation on a footpath in West Yorkshire, prompting a murder investigation, BBC reported.Police were called to a disused railway line off Blacker Lane in Calder Grove, Wakefield, at around 1.30 pm BST […]
