Global Chess League returns to India for Season 4

IANS | May 8, 2026 3:42 PM

New Delhi, May 8 (IANS) The Global Chess League (GCL) and FIDE on Friday announced that season 4 will take place in India, a country where chess is not just played, but lived, followed, and celebrated like never before, with the host city to be announced in the coming days.

Will not allow Trinamool activists to enter my party, says BJP's Ratna Debnath on post-poll violence

IANS | May 8, 2026 3:33 PM

Panihati (West Bengal), May 8 (IANS) Ratna Debnath, BJP MLA-elect and mother of the trainee doctor who was sexually assaulted and murdered at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, on Friday alleged on Friday that certain activists from the Trinamool Congress are posing as BJP supporters and indulging in post-poll violence in West Bengal. She further asserted that no Trinamool activist will be allowed to be a part of the BJP.

Pakistan's internal policy failures fuelling Balochistan insurgency

IANS | May 8, 2026 3:32 PM

Islamabad, May 8 (IANS) Pakistan's reliance on proxy militant networks, its heavy-handed handling of local grievances, and its failure to respond to emerging militant alliances have fuelled the current crisis in Balochistan. Far from being a peripheral theatre, the province is turning into the epicentre of a multilayered insurgency shaped by decades of strategic miscalculations by Pakistani authorities, a report has detailed.

Centre forms expert panel to protect litchi crop in Bihar

IANS | May 8, 2026 3:25 PM

New Delhi, May 8 (IANS) Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Shivraj Singh Chouhan has set up a special expert task force to look into the damage caused to the litchi crop in Bihar and come up with a report on the remedial measures to help farmers within a week, according to an official statement issued on Friday.

India at forefront of global space transformation: Nidhi Khare

IANS | May 8, 2026 3:20 PM

New Delhi, May 8 (IANS) India is at the forefront of global space transformation and is steadily emerging as a major hub for innovation and private sector participation in the space industry, Nidhi Khare, Secretary, Department of Consumer Affairs, has said, it was announced on Friday.