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Delhi Blast: NIA Makes First Arrest, Nabi’s Associate Picked up in Delhi

November 16, 2025 Editor In Chief

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, Nov 16: The anti-terror probing arm National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Sunday affected the first arrest in connection with the Delhi blast near the iconic Red Fort on November 10 by picking up a Kashmiri resident who was allegedly a part of the conspiracy to trigger the car bomb that killed […]

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Celebrated Social Reformer Raja Ram Mohan Roy was a “British Agent:” Says BJP Minister, Apologises

November 16, 2025 Editor In Chief

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, Nov 16: Apparently with an eye on the coming elections to the West Bengal Assembly, the Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently blamed Jawaharlal Nehru for “truncating” the national song “Vande Mataram” written by Bankim Chandra Chottopadhyay, while a BJP minister in Madhya Pradesh abused a great son of Bengal as a […]

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JSP Accuses NDA of Diverting World Bank Loan to “Buy Votes” in Bihar

November 16, 2025 Editor In Chief

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, Nov 16: As the Nitish Kumar-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) is preparing for the formation of another government in Bihar after its landslide victory in the just-completed state Assembly elections, the newly-formed Jan Suraaj Party (JSP), which failed to even open its account, has accused the chief minister of “diverting” funds […]

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Lalu Prasad Yadav Family on War-Path, Blame it on “Two Outsiders”

November 16, 2025 Editor In Chief

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, Nov 16: The feud within Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) patriarch and former Bihar chief minister Lalu Prasad Yadav’s family appears to be growing wider after the election setback with his daughter Rohini Acharya making fresh allegations against her relatives and once again hitting out at the close aides of her brother […]

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Gill’s Further Participation in First Test Match Doubtful

November 15, 2025 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, Nov 15: India test cricket captain Shubman Gill’s availability for the remainder of the on-going first test match against South Africa is in serious doubt after he was stretchered into an ambulance with his neck immobilised on Saturday evening, hours after retiring hurt during India’s first innings on day two at the Eden […]

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Nadda Inaugurates 10 AMRIT Outlets

November 15, 2025 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, Nov 15: The Union Health Minister J.P. Nadda inaugurated AMRIT (Affordable Medicines and Reliable Implants for Treatment) Pharmacy’s 10th Anniversary celebrations at Bharat Mandapam, in New Delhi on Saturday. AMRIT pharmacies have been providing life-saving and essential medicines at discounts ranging from 50% to 90%. “Jan Aushadhi and AMRIT were conceived—both designed to […]

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9 Killed as Explosives from Faridabad Exploded in Nowgam Police Station

November 15, 2025 Editor In Chief

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, Nov 15: Nine people were killed and 32 others were injured after a huge pile of confiscated explosives stored at a police station in Nowgam near Jammu and Kashmir’s Srinagar went off on Friday night. Most of those killed were policemen and forensic team officials, who were examining the explosives. Two […]

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CPM Blames Congress for “Mahagathbandhan” Rout in Bihar

November 15, 2025 Editor In Chief

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, Nov 15: The Communist Party of India (Marxist), which was part of the opposition coalition “Mahagathbandhan” in the Bihar state Assembly elections, has squarely blamed the Congress leadership for dismally failing to cobble together a broad-based coalition of secular, democratic and regional parties to thwart the BJP-led NDA’s march to victory […]

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Lalu Prasad’s Daughter Rohini Acharya Quits Politics, Disowns Family

November 15, 2025 Editor In Chief

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, Nov 15: In a decision that may further widen the rift within the family, Rohini Acharya, the daughter of the veteran Bihar politician and chief of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) Lalu Prasad Yadav, on Saturday announced that she was quitting politics and also “disown the family.” Ms Acharya, a medical […]

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In the wisdom of an elderly woman voter, the secret to the NDA landslide in Bihar

November 15, 2025 revoi editor

(Guru Prakash) During a campaign visit to a remote corner of Goh in Jehanabad— an area once synonymous with fear and massacres in the Lalu Prasad era — an elderly woman stopped our convoy. Her frail frame suggested a lifetime of hardship, but her voice carried an unshakeable conviction. “Chahe koi goli ki dhamki de de… […]