Senior CPI (Maoist) leader Prashant Bose.

Nation

Top Maoist leader Prashant Bose alias ‘Kishan da’ dies in custody in Ranchi

Parliament House

POLITICS

Congress accuses Centre of timing special session for electoral gain

Doctors stage children’s celebration at Tehran hospital.

World

Hope and small joys for children in Tehran hospital amid war

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Nation

NCERT granted deemed-to-be university status, empowered to award its own degrees

Policemen question patients inside a hospital ward amid the investigation.

Nation

Four dead, over a dozen fall ill in suspected hooch tragedy in Bihar’s Motihari

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World

UN experts raise alarm over health of detained Pakistani activist Idris Khattak

Oldest Hindu temple in Karachi.

World

Rights body flags decay of Karachi’s oldest Hindu temple as ‘national shame’

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World

Pakistan hikes petrol by 43% and high-speed diesel by 55% as fuel prices surge

Election Commission of India headquarters in New Delhi.

POLITICS

ECI seeks Bengal Police report on security withdrawal for tainted leaders

BSE at Dalal Street in Mumbai

Business

Indian markets fall for sixth straight week amid West Asia tensions

Satellite view of Strait of Hormuz

World

Russia, China, France veto UNSC resolution to reopen Strait of Hormuz

FBI director Kash Patel.

World

Fate of Kash Patel uncertain as Trump eyes administration overhaul, reports suggest

File photo of West Bengal CEO Manoj Kumar Agarwal with electors at an SIR camp, in Kolkata.

POLITICS

Bengal electoral roll update: EC clears 52 lakh cases in eighth supplementary list