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Haider was welcomed into the party by state Congress President and veteran Lok Sabha MP Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury.Haider was the state secretary of the youth wing of Trinamool till 2019, after which he was removed from the chair. He had then alleged that he was removed from the post without any prior intimation or valid reason.Since then, he started distancing himself from the Trinamool before finally jumping ship to the Congress on Saturday. “I was not getting the right opportunity to work in Trinamool Congress. Now I want to work for the people under the leadership of Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury.…

Brisbane, Aug 19 (IANS) Australia’s veteran opener Usman Khawaja said he will aim to continue playing Test cricket for a long time if he continues to tick three crucial boxes with the side. Khawaja scored 496 runs in the recently-concluded Ashes 2023, being the highest run-scorer of the series, which ended in a 2-2 draw.The next Ashes series will be held in Australia in 2025-26. “In 2025…one series at a time I go with. You can get ahead of yourself and look to that time (in 2025) and think, ‘I can probably get there’, but I don’t want to (do…

New Delhi, Aug 19 (IANS) The legendary football coach and currently the FIFA Chief of Global Football Development, Arsène Wenger, is likely to visit India in the second week of October to finalise the setting-up of a central academy in India jointly with the All-India Football Federation (AIFF), according to Federation President Kalyan Chaubey.Chaubey and AIFF Secretary-General Dr. Shaji Prabhakaran had a meeting with Wenger, Steven Martens, Technical Director, FIFA, and Ulf Schott, Head of High-Performance Programmes, FIFA, in Sydney, Australia, on Saturday, to decide on the collaboration between the FIFA and the AIFF to launch an academy for U-13…

Director of Delhi Fire Service (DFS) Atul Garg said that the call regarding the blaze was received at 5.25 am, following which eight fire tenders were rushed to the spot.“The building comprises a basement plus two floors and a terrace. The fire was in a record room and fabric clothes at the terrace and doused the fire around 9 a.m,” said Garg.Garg said that no one was injured in the incident.–IANSssh/dan

A senior police officer said that a case has been registered against the doctor and investigation is presently underway. “The incident allegedly took place on August 16. The victim had visited the doctor’s clinic in the evening. According to her, the doctor molested her after asking to her to take off her clothes,” the officer said. The case is being probed by the Margao police. Further details are awaited.–IANSsbk/arm

ASCJ cum JSCC cum Guardian Judge Ajay Kumar Malik of Dwarka Courts was hearing the AAP leader’s defamation suit.The news in question alleged that Balyan and a gangster were talking about extorting two businessmen in an audio clip, which was released by it.Balyan has said that he and his family were shocked by the news under the heading “Sarji ka Vidhayak Gangster ka Sahay” which was false and had caused great loss to his reputation, including that of his family.The court has passed the interim order restraining the channel from airing the news till August 23.“At request and convenience of…

A total of 28,223 challans have been issued for violation of traffic rules. Besides, 425,522 e-challans were also issued.Around 25 per cent of the fines are being paid by the violators through online platforms, said the statement.The police have procured alco sensor, 4G body worn camera, laser speed gun and many equipment on a daily basis by the traffic police personnel. Many positive results of which have emerged and there has been a decrease in traffic accidents and so are fall in the number of deaths in accidents.From January 1 to July 14 this year, there has been a reduction…

Playing their final Group F fixture of the 132nd Durand Cup at Kokrajhar’s SAI Stadium, the home side rode on second-half strikes by Maneshwar Mushahary and Cameroonian Zacharie Mbenda to come from behind and register a famous and memorable win.Pungte Lapung had scored first to give Odisha the lead but things did not go their way for the ISL club after that.As things stand in Group F, both Bodoland and Odisha finished with three points, whereas the Indian Army are sitting pretty at the top with six points and a game in hand against Rajasthan United FC who are also…

In a five-minute video doing the rounds on social media, Deepika could be heard saying that she has embraced Islam.A mother of two, Deepika had gone missing on July 13. On the same day, Deepika made a WhatsApp call to her husband Mukesh Patidar in Mumbai, saying: “You keep getting upset with me. That’s why I have come out (of the relationship).” Hearing this, Mukesh hurriedly returned to Dungarpur from Mumbai and lodged a missing report with the police station on July 15.Mukesh kept searching for his wife for almost a month, but couldn’t find anything about her whereabouts.On August…

Due to the protests movement of vehicles along the National Highway-2 (Imphal-Dimapur), the surface lifeline of Manipur, remained disrupted for the entire day.The protesters said that the three VDV were killed by the rival community barely two days after Chief Minister N. Biren Singh in his Independence Day speech called for ‘forgive and forget’ and to live peacefully.The protests were organised by the Committee on Tribal Unity (CoTU), which also submitted a memorandum to Prime Minister Narendra Modi demanding to re-impose Armed Forces (Special Power) Act, 1958 (AFSPA) in all six valley districts inhabited by the non-tribals Meiteis.“If the AFSPA…