HYDERABAD: He was declared “dead” two decades ago by a court here, after he disappeared with Rs 50 lakh following a bank fraud. On Sunday, when CBI sleuths arrested him after a lengthy and coordinated operation, he was disguised as a sadhu in a village in Tamil Nadu.But this was only one of many identities…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Monday refused to stay Calcutta high court‘s May 22 judgment quashing inclusion of 77 communities, 75 of them Muslims, in West Bengal‘s OBC list and sought details of surveys determining their social and educational backwardness and under-representation in govt jobs requiring their inclusion in the OBC list.While agreeing to examine…
Indians working and living in Bangladesh were cooped up at home Monday and glued to the news as the streets of Dhaka descended into chaos in a public uprising that they knew was brewing but didn’t expect to unravel in the manner it did.Kanika Banerjee, 80, reached Bangladesh last Saturday to stay with her son…
Sheikh Hasina‘s flight on Monday left India’s neighbour oscillating between hope and apprehension, the unbridled joy and relief experienced by the millions who hit the streets contrasting with the uncertainty about the new future expressed by those who chose to stay away from the anti-govt protests.Filmmaker Kamar Ahmad Simon was part of the Long March…
NEW DELHI: Intelligence establishment sees the hand of Pakistan‘s external intelligence agency, ISI and its Chinese patron in escalating the protests and subversion that forced Sheikh Hasina to flee the country.Information reaching here point to the not-so-subtle hand of Islami Chhatra Shibir (ICS), the student wing of hardline Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh which is known for its…
NEW DELHI: Barely two days after taking over additional charge as BSF DG, Daljit Singh Chaudhary was holding fort at the India-Bangladesh border in North 24 Parganas and Sundarbans area of West Bengal, reviewing the force’s operational preparedness in the wake of political turmoil in Bangladesh.Sources said BSF has issued a high alert to its…
KOZHIKODE: They had lived as one in the villages of Mundakkai and Puthumala before the catastrophic landslides washed them away seven days ago and mutilated their bodies so severely that they were unidentifiable even to their loved ones.Twenty-nine unidentified but complete bodies and parts of 154 bodies were interred in graves on 64 cents of…
KOLKATA/NEW DELHI: Travel to and from Dhaka, less than an hour away from Kolkata by air, was grounded Monday after a six-hour airport shutdown triggered by the upheaval in the Bangladesh capital set the stage for a spate of cancellations by airlines and left flyers bracing for the long haul.Indian Railways, too, extended the suspension…
NEW DELHI: Sheikh Hasina, who landed at Hindon airbase near Ghaziabad hours after fleeing Dhaka, is not sure about her next destination and may stay here for a few days.Sources said Hasina, the longest-tenured female head of government in the world, has got relatives in London, the US as well as Singapore, but has not…
DHAKA: Bangladesh‘s embattled PM Sheikh Hasina (76) on Monday resigned and fled the country following more than a month of deadly demonstrations that began as protests against job quotas swelled into a movement precipitating the end of her 15-year rule.A source close to her told AFP her security team, gauging the mood on the ground,…
