It’s rare that siblings get the bigger slice of the pie than their gifted star brothers or sisters who came before.

The West Bengal government has been assured of 48 companies of the Central paramilitary forces for the elections in 81 municipalities, including the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC), on May 30. Besides, 23 companies will come from other states for poll purposes.

A police constable was killed in a shootout between police and a group of youngsters at a popular eatery on Amritsar’s busy Lawrence Road on Wednesday afternoon.
Police constables on Tarn Taran SP dectective Malvinder Singh’s personal security detail opened fire when the young men reportedly threatened the officer with a nine millimeter pistol.

The BJP on Wednesday said UPA-2’s first year in office was marred by issues, including faltering on strategic and foreign policy, its failure on the internal security issue and an uneasy relationship between allies. The party also said the government failed to curb spiralling prices of essential commodities and misused institutions like the CBI to manage vulnerable allies.

If the Maoists repeated what they did in Dantewada, so did the security forces! Similar to Monday’s explosion in Dantewada in which the Naxals had planted the IED in the middle of a pitched road, the explosive at Gwaltor on Wednesday was planted in the road. And significantly, with no lessons learnt, the patrolling party had conveniently

The Air Corporation Employees Union (ACEU), a union representing about 10,000 employees of Air India (domestic), has called for a strike on May 31. A strike notice was served on the airline by the union, Air India confirmed. ACEU leader J.B. Kadyan said that the strike was being called on account of “delay in payment of salaries, shortfall of cabin crew, and ceding of ground-handling duties at Hyderabad and Bengaluru airports to the Air India-SATS joint venture.”

The Mayawati government has ordered a CB-CID inquiry against a Hindi monthly called Ambedkar Today for publishing an objectionable article in its recent issue.
In the article, the writer has reportedly made some “unparliamentary, obnoxious and objectionable comments” against a particular religion.

City girl Shreya Daga has topped in the ISC examination securing 98.75 per cent marks. A Class 12 student of Mahadevi Birla Shishu Vihar, Shreya is the joint All-India topper along with another girl from Agra. For Shreya, this result has come as a pleasant surprise. “I had never thought of securing the first position in the country. Right

Two persons, including a senior government official and a tourist from Bengalaru, have been killed and scores of civilians were injured when caught in a massive snow avalanches and landslides near the 17,350-feet-high Chang La (pass) in eastern Ladakh.

He has been defending the Congress Party for last six years as its spokesperson in Maharashtra but has now come out in his own defence.