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• Chappell Roan parts ways with Wasserman Agency as Epstein Files shows his flirtatious emails to Ghislaine Maxwell

  Singer Chappell Roan has announced she is leaving the talent agency run by Casey Wasserman, the same Wasserman whose name recently popped up in the Epstein files.

• Promise Day: Creative ways to make every promise count and transform your relationship forever

  Promise Day before Valentine's Day is an emotional moment in the calendar. It's a day when lovers make promises, sweet words intended to last beyond just one evening. But what if we made Promise Day more than words? What if we turned it into a ritual? Or meaningful tradition that strengthens emotional connections and nurtures long‑term love?

• Anand revisited: How Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Rajesh Khanna, Amitabh Bachchan redefined life, friendship, Hindi cinema

  If there's one man who could make ordinary Indian lives feel extraordinary on screen, it was Hrishikesh Mukherjee. 1971 was a year of big wins. India celebrated victories in politics, cricket, and even war. But life was far from easy. Amid national turbulence, Indian cinema quietly offered comfort and laughter. There were moments that made people reflect on what it meant to live fully.

• King Charles offers palace support as police examine Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor for Epstein Files

  King Charles has broken his silence on the Jeffrey Epstein files scandal. For the first time, Buckingham Palace has publicly confirmed its readiness to assist police as allegations against Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly Prince Andrew, are examined.

• Olivia Colman says she's 'always felt sort of non-binary' and feels at home in queer stories

  Oscar-winning actress Olivia Colman is once again breaking the mold and this time with some deeply personal revelations about gender and identity in addition to why queer stories speak to her heart.

• Kalki Koechlin-starrer French drama 'Her Song', backed by Oscar winner James Ivory, set for Cinequest 2026 premiere

  Kalki Koechlin is crossing borders, languages and cinematic cultures! The National Award-winning actress is all ready to charm international audiences in 'Her Song', a French comedy-drama executive produced by Oscar winner James Ivory.

• Final electoral roll to be published on 28 Feb after timeline extension

  The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Tuesday announced that the final electoral roll for West Bengal under the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise will be published on 28 February.

• Abhishek sets terms for signing no-confidence motion against the LS Speaker

  Today in New Delhi, the Trinamul Congress national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee said that his party has no problem signing the no-confidence motion against the Lok Sabha Speaker, Om Birla. All 28 MPs will sign it. However, before moving the no-confidence motion, we want all INDIA bloc partners to sign a letter addressed to the Speaker, highlighting the four points on which the argument is based. For instance, eight Congress MPs have been suspended. An appeal can be made to reconsider or revoke the suspension. The Speaker can be given two to three days' time to respond.

• Illegal sand mining: ED arrests 2 in West Burdwan

  The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has made its first arrests in connection with illegal sand mining along the banks of the Damodar and Ajay rivers in West Burdwan district.

• Bhaipo, SP linked to coal smuggling, says BJP MP after 2 more 'PA' friends held

  After the police booked two more aides of his 'personal assistant', Soumitra Khan, BJP MP from Bishnupur in Bankura has trained his guns at the top leaders of the ruling party in Bengal.

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• Former UP CM Kalyan Singh passes away after prolonged illness, PM Modi and other leaders express condolences

  Senior BJP leader and two-time Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Kalyan Singh passed away at a Lucknow hospital on Saturday....

• Anatomy of Research~I

  The term, research, has of late come in tremendous vogue globally. A staunch admirer of the present times would surely view this as a clear testimony in support of the populist branding of the present age as a 'knowledge society'. Likewise, while the whole world used to know the word, university,...

• India needs a strong government, definitive vision: PM Modi

  Q: The middle class has been a consistent support block for the national brand of Modi. The opposition alleges that the middle class has not got its due from your government. Would you agree? And what are your plans for the middle class?...

• NDMC Budget for FY 2022-23 shows a moderate increase in both receipts and expenditure of the premier municipal organization in Delhi

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• Education Derailed

  The recent Health Ministry directive reducing the cut-off qualifying percentile for National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET )-Post Graduate (PG) 2023, from fifty to "zero" across all categories, exposes the sorry state of medical education because the affected students, who had scored 'zero'...

• Crossroads of Culture

  What would an institu- tion do with 297 mo- ulded bricks and ar- chitectural fragmen- ts; five large seated Buddha ima- ges in high relief; and a smaller figure within a niche of a stand- ing male figure holding a flower in relief; two roundels and rec- tangular bricks depicting the image of Kubera,...

• "As Simple..as Extraordinary" and a "Symbol of Resilience", PM Modi writes an emotional note on mother Heeraben's 100th birthday

  PM Modi writes for his mother: On his mother, Heeraben's 100th birthday the Prime Minister penned an emotional blog expressing how his mother has been his greatest teacher who gave him the biggest lessons for his lifetime. By penning an emotional note on the occasion of his mother's birthday, the...

• A Roundtable on the War

  The war in Ukraine started four months ago. According to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, it has already caused the death of more than 4,500 civilians and forced almost five million people to leave their homes and become refugees. These numbers do not include...

• "As Simple..as Extraordinary" and a "Symbol of Resilience", PM Modi writes an emotional note on mother Heeraben's 100th birthday

  PM Modi writes for his mother: On his mother, Heeraben's 100th birthday the Prime Minister penned an emotional blog expressing how his mother has been his greatest teacher who gave him the biggest lessons for his lifetime. By penning an emotional note on the occasion of his mother's birthday, the...

• B.Ed bugs

  That the education sys- tem in West Bengal is sullied by politicisation that does not spare even primary education is not refut- able. Teachers' training institu- tions, starved of basic infrastru- cture, have alarmingly added to the mess. In a recent move, the West Bengal government has cancelled...