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If he’s Singham, I am Pushpa: TMC leader as UP-cadre IPS officer’s activities sparks row

Kolkata, Apr 28 (PTI) Uttar Pradesh-cadre IPS officer Ajay Pal Sharma, warning potential troublemakers of “appropriate treatment” if they try to disrupt Wednesday’s polling in West Bengal, created a fresh political dust-up with the TMC accusing the EC-appointed police observer of overstepping his role and “intimidating” party workers. With over a hundred armed central paramilitary troops, an armoured vehicle, and a list of potential “trouble makers” in his pocket, the 2011-batch IPS combed the South 24 Parganas district’s Falta Assembly seat under TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee’s backyard of Diamond Harbour parliamentary constituency for two days on a trot. The Prayagraj

India douses fears of retail fuel price hike amid panic buying

NEW DELHI, April 28 (Reuters) – India has asked motorists to avoid panic buying and clarified that there was no proposal to raise ​pump prices for diesel and gasoline, a government official ‌said on Tuesday. “We have adequate supplies of liquefied petroleum gas, petrol, and diesel. There has been no increase in prices. Please avoid panic buying and do ​not believe rumours,” Sujata Sharma, Joint Secretary in the federal ​oil ministry, said at a news conference on Tuesday ⁠in an appeal to buyers. India, the world’s third-biggest oil importer and ​consumer, has been hit by rising oil prices triggered by

Trump push for state voter rolls rebuffed by courts as midterms near

April 28 (Reuters) – As the U.S. midterm elections approach, Democrats are winning legal challenges to the Trump administration’s push to obtain states’ voter rolls, dealing a blow to the president’s unprecedented effort to expand the federal government’s role in elections. The Democratic-run states’ victories come as their party is locked in a fierce battle to take back both houses of Congress from President Donald ​Trump’s Republicans in the November 3 midterms. So far this year, federal judges in California, Massachusetts, Michigan, Oregon and Rhode Island have dismissed Justice Department lawsuits demanding those states’ voter rolls, including sensitive information like

Why you may see Japanese soccer fans cleaning up the stadium after World Cup games

TOKYO, April 28, 2026 (AP) — If there’s one country guaranteed to clean up at the World Cup, it’s Japan. Literally. Scenes of Japanese soccer fans sweeping stadiums and picking up trash after a match first drew public attention in France in 1998 — Japan’s first appearance in the World Cup. The tradition has continued every four years. It happened at the World Cup in Qatar in 2022, and it’s certain to continue when Japan opens play in June with group games in Arlington, Texas, and Monterrey, Mexico. The cleanup astonishes non-Japanese who might be accustomed to leaving stadiums and

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