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Murder of student in Ghaziabad: Main accused killed following encounter with police

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Murder of student in Ghaziabad: Main accused killed following encounter with police

Actor Lakshmipriya | Photo Credit: via Facebook page The Kochi City cyber police have launched a preliminary investigation into a complaint filed by Malayalam actor Lakshmipriya alleging defamation by a set of YouTubers. The police have recorded the statement of Ms. Lakshmipriya, a vice president of the Association of Malayalam Movie Artistes (AMMA), after she lodged the complaint last Saturday (June 13).Police sources said steps were being taken to remove the alleged defamatory contents against the actor from social media platforms and preserve these for investigative purposes. “A decision on whether to register a case will be taken based on the ongoing preliminary investigation. A sub inspector has been assigned to probe the complaint,” a city police officer said.Actor submits evidenceIn a social media post on Saturday (June 20), the actor said she had submitted to the police 93 videos, their links and screenshots of thumbnails in a pen drive along with her complaint. She claimed that a few of the YouTubers mentioned in her complaint have already hidden the videos. “My fight is for all women who are being targeted by such people,” she said.The probe comes amid a series of controversies involving Ms. Lakshmipriya and other office-bearers of AMMA.Actor Ansiba Hassan, who has quit as the joint secretary of AMMA following an internal rift, has approached the Judicial First Class Magistrate Court, Thripunithura, in Ernakulam district seeking a direction to register a First Information Report (FIR) over a complaint filed by her against Ms. Lakshmipriya and a female police officer of the Thripunithura women’s cell.Ms. Hassan, in her complaint, accused Ms. Lakshmipriya of filing a false complaint against her, and Reshma, sub-inspector of Thripunithura Women’s cell, of subjecting her to harassment and unlawful detention in the name of verifying the allegations against her.Ms. Hassan approached the court after the police earlier this month ruled out the possibility of registering a case over a complaint filed by her against Ms. Lakshmipriya and the female police officer. Published - June 20, 2026 01:44 pm IST

Sanjay Jha at Idea Exchange: ‘Two people destroyed the India Bloc alliance: Mamata Banerjee and Arvind Kejriwal’

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Sanjay Jha at Idea Exchange: ‘Two people destroyed the India Bloc alliance: Mamata Banerjee and Arvind Kejriwal’

Considered one of the Trinamool Congress’s (TMC) rising stars, Saayoni Ghosh’s decision to join the bloc of rebel MPs has been one of the more surprising defections for many inside the Mamata Banerjee-led party, given her known proximity to the former Chief Minister and party national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee.“We never thought Saayoni would join the rebel bloc because Abhishek Banerjee brought her into politics and Mamata Banerjee always preferred her and made her a leader even before she proved her credibility. This is also a lesson for Mamata Banerjee and Abhishek Banerjee because they always kept faith in film artists rather than the party’s full-time workers and leaders,” said a senior TMC leader close to the former CM.TMC MP Mahua Moitra said she was left “shocked” at Ghosh’s exit. “Saayoni is like my child, like my sister. If anybody else left, I would feel no pain. (But) I look at her and she’s old enough to be my daughter. I really loved her like that. And I believe she has an excellent future. She has come from nothing, is a very hard worker, and is extremely talented… Maybe it’s a combination of fear and other things. She has a father. I don’t know what it is. Because I can vouch that she’s not a disloyal, profiteering person. She’s not interested in money. She leads a fairly simple life and works all the time. Look at what the party has given her in only five years… When people like that do that (think of jumping ship), it’s very, very upsetting. Everyone has their own destiny. But still my advice to her would be, you know, overcome fear, conquer fear. There is life ahead,” Moitra told The Indian Express in a recent interview. As the crisis in the TMC deepened, Ghosh travelled to New Delhi over the weekend amid intense speculation about her future, saying she would speak “when the time is right”. On Sunday, the rebel MPs, including Ghosh, met Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, announcing their merger with a little-known regional outfit and seeking recognition as a separate group in Parliament. Realising that Saayoni had changed sides, Mamata Banerjee initiated an organisational reshuffle and removed her as Trinamool Youth Congress president, replacing her with Arnab Banerjee. Political journey In 2021, Ghosh’s entry into active politics proved to be a turning point for the TMC, which at the time was seeing prominent leaders exit the party to join the BJP. Before Ghosh officially joined the TMC ahead of the 2021 Assembly polls, she had been openly critical of the BJP and was known to be close to the Left in Bengal. That year, she made her electoral debut from the Asansol South Assembly constituency against BJP’s Agnimitra Paul. Though Ghosh lost to Paul by under 4,500 votes, her energetic campaigning caught the eye of the TMC leadership. Shortly after the TMC returned to power in the 2021 Assembly polls, the party leadership entrusted Ghosh with greater responsibility, appointing her as Abhishek Banerjee’s replacement as the president of the Trinamool Youth Congress. Ghosh, hardly a reticent politician, chose to voice her opinions loudly, harnessing social media to present her takes on national issues. In November 2021, while campaigning for the TMC in Tripura’s civic body elections, Ghosh was arrested by the police on charges of promoting enmity between people, attempt to murder, criminal intimidation and criminal conspiracy. An FIR was also registered against her for allegedly disturbing a rally of then CM Biplab Kumar Deb. In June 2023, Ghosh was questioned by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in connection with its probe into the alleged irregularities in the school jobs scam. Sources in the ED had said that Ghosh’s name surfaced multiple times during interrogation of those arrested in connection with its probe, in which former West Bengal education minister Partha Chatterjee had been arrested. In the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, Ghosh was fielded from the high-profile Jadavpur constituency of Kolkata, the very s

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How India’s health profile has changed over the last four years, explained in 5 charts

IN THE SPRAWLING slum in Delhi where Parul Gayen lived in the 1970s, children were everywhere. It was not unusual then that her mother had been one of six, or her grandfather one of 11. Swapan, the handsome boy whom she often saw cycling to work, and later married at 16, had six siblings—the seventh did not survive infancy. But times have changed, says Ms Gayen, who is now 58 and lives with Swapan in a one-bedroom flat nearby. Of the couple’s three grown-up kids, only two decided to have children of their own. Both stopped at one. “One child feels lonely,” she says.In 1950 India’s population was 360m. The average woman had six children—roughly the same as an American woman a century earlier. Today, with a population of 1.45bn, India accounts for a sixth of humanity. It surpassed China as the world’s most populous country in 2023 and has kept growing. But its total fertility rate (TFR), the number of births a typical woman has over her lifetime, has fallen to 1.9 (see chart 1), below the level needed to keep the population stable in the long run. Although the population will keep growing for a spell, as the generation that are currently children themselves become parents, a future contraction is inevitable unless the fertility rate rises back above 2.15. In practice, it is likely to keep falling, accelerating the impending shrinkage. In Delhi, for instance, the TFR is 1.2.Baby bluesThe rich world and many middle-income countries are awash with anxiety about declining fertility, shrinking workforces and impending or intensifying falls in population. Politicians often badger or bribe parents to have more children, with little success. Now India, once a source of angst about exponential population growth, is joining the same club. New school textbooks, to be published this summer, will warn of the perils of too few, rather than too many, children. In May Chandrababu Naidu, the chief minister of Andhra Pradesh, a southern state of about 55m, announced a 30,000 rupee ($315) payout for couples who have a third child.As recently as 2019 Narendra Modi, the prime minister, warned of a “population explosion”. But the government’s thinking has flipped, says Sanjeev Sanyal, an adviser to Mr Modi. Today officials worry that India is on a similar path to China, whose population has been shrinking since 2021. Fertility has fallen much further and faster than expected, says Neelkanth Mishra, chief economist of Axis Bank. In both Tamil Nadu, a state of roughly 77m, and West Bengal (100m) the TFR stands at 1.3, the same as in Finland (see chart 2). The average for urban India is 1.5. For a long time demographers thought poor northern states would delay India’s demographic transition. Now they seem to be converging with wealthier, less teeming parts of the country.Some might see a shrinking population as a blessing. After all, India’s infrastructure often seems inadequate: think of commuters cramming themselves into Mumbai’s local trains, for instance. Yet the prospect of an India with fewer children is not an entirely comforting one, either. It would get old before it gets rich, making for a difficult demographic transition. The effects would ripple through its society, its economy and its politics.India’s extraordinarily fertile land and largely reliable monsoon help explain why it accounts for 2.4% of the world’s land mass but 18% of its people. Its population was given a further boost by the medical advances of the late 20th century. In 1950 a quarter of children did not survive to their fifth birthday; by 2000 only a tenth died young. India went through this transition in mortality at an unusually early stage of development, when its birth rates remained very high, says Sonalde Desai of the University of Maryland.That combination made India exhibit A for population alarmists. It was a visit to a “hellish” slum in Delhi in the 1960s that inspired Paul Ehrlich, an American biologist, to write “The Population Bomb”. He warned that the battle to

Donald Trump warns Iran to ‘better get smart soon’, says he is ‘no more Mr. Nice Guy’

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Donald Trump warns Iran to ‘better get smart soon’, says he is ‘no more Mr. Nice Guy’

US President Donald Trump's administration on Friday announced a new policy requiring most foreign nationals applying for green cards to complete the process from outside the country instead of adjusting status within the US.US President Donald Trump's administration announced new rules for immigrants seeking green cards(AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)Continuing its crackdown on immigrants in the US, President Donald Trump's administration on Friday (local time) announced a new policy for foreigners applying for permanent residency in the country.According to a Bloomberg report, those seeking permanent residency in Washington will be required to return to their home countries to seek green cards.Trump administration ramps up crackdown on immigrantsIn a statement, Zach Kahler, a spokesman for US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), said, "From now on, an alien who is in the US temporarily and wants a green card must return to their home country to apply, except in extraordinary circumstances." Kahler added, "This policy allows our immigration system to function as the law intended instead of incentivizing loopholes."CBS News, citing officials, said they plan to end the option for many immigrants seeking a green card to complete the process without leaving the country. Under the new approach, most of these immigrants would instead have to return to their home countries and apply for an immigrant visa abroad at a US consulate.What does the document say?The memo, which was issued by USCIS on Friday, aims to strictly limit when the agency can allow immigrants to receive a green card via the "adjustment of status" process. According to reports, this route allows eligible immigrants already in the US to apply for permanent residency without having to leave the country and apply at a US consulate abroad.In a memo outlining the change, USCIS employees who decide applications for permanent residency were told that some exceptions could be made. The memo directed them to “consider and weigh all the relevant evidence in the record, taking into account the totality of the circumstances to determine whether the alien is suitable for permanent residence.”Additionally, it also directs federal agency officers to view adjustment of status as an "extraordinary" form of relief and an act of "administrative grace," citing federal law to argue that most green card applicants should complete the process overseas. Further, officers have now been told to see adjustment of status as a rare and special benefit, not a normal option. Officers are now instructed to view choosing adjustment of status over applying at a US consulate abroad as a negative factor in a person’s case.While the policy does not clearly state all the exceptions, the memo says that some groups, such as those on "dual intent" visas like H-1Bs for high-skilled workers, as well as refugees and asylees, will likely be allowed to apply for a green card in the country via adjustment of status.Trump's policy change could impact thousandsAccording to immigration law experts, the announcement of a new policy could impact hundreds of thousands of people a year and potentially reduce legal immigration further amid a sweeping government crackdown.The Trump administration has introduced a series of restrictions affecting everyone from asylum seekers to students and highly skilled workers.The new rules broadly affect foreigners who entered the US on temporary non-immigrant visas, such as students, H-1B or L visa workers, and visitors. Washington grants about one million green cards annually, but nearly half are for foreign relatives sponsored by US citizens, and those cases are typically already handled outside the country.Trump administration's stance on immigrantsThe developments come at a time when citizens of at least 39 countries, mostly in Africa and Asia, are barred or restricted from entering Washington under a proclamation signed by the US President on national security grounds, commo

Timmy the whale rescue attempt begins off coast of Germany – in pictures

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Timmy the whale rescue attempt begins off coast of Germany – in pictures

An aerial photo taken on May 2, 2026 shows Timmy, the rescued humpback whale, offshore near Skagen after being released from a barge. The whale was first spotted stuck on a sandbank on March 23 near the city of Lübeck before freeing itself and then becoming stuck again several times. Sebastian Peters/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Sebastian Peters/Getty Images Timmy, the humpback whale that made global headlines since being stranded in shallow waters for several weeks, was released into the North Sea on Saturday. The 40-foot-long internet phenomenon had been wallowing in shallow waters near...

Attempt to repeal Colorado's right-to-repair law fails

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Attempt to repeal Colorado's right-to-repair law fails

A controversial bill in Colorado that would have undone some repair protections in the state has failed. The bill had been the target of right-to-repair advocates, who saw it as a bellwether for how tech companies might try to undo repair legislation more broadly in the US. Colorado’s landmark 2024 repair law, the Consumer Right to Repair Digital Electronic Equipment, went into effect in January 2026 and ensured access to tools and documentation people needed to modify and fix digital electronics such as phones, computers, and Wi-Fi routers. The new bill,...

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