NEW DELHI: A social and economic boycott was enforced by villagers against ten Muslim families following hate speeches at a Hindu Sammelan held in Balaghat district of Madhya Pradesh. “It is requested to stop any give take and eat drink with any member of the Muslim community. The group said such actions pose a serious threat to social harmony and constitutional values. Strict legal action should be taken against the guilty to restore social harmony,” the group said. Former MLA Kishore Samrite also criticised the social boycott, calling it a violation of the Constitution.

CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu BJP president Nainar Nagenthran told TNIE that actor Vijay’s TVK will not eat into the NDA’s vote-share and expressed confidence about the bloc’s victory in the state. The people of Tamil Nadu feel cheated by the DMK government, he said. He contrasted this with what he termed the DMK’s confrontational approach with the centre even over schemes that are beneficial to the people. Nagenthran said Annamalai will participate in BJP’s future campaigns. He said the TN people are fully aware of the breakdown in law and order in the state under the DMK government and its failure to fulfil most of its poll promises.

US President Donald Trump warned Iran’s supreme leader as nuclear talks are set to resume in Oman. While diplomacy moves forward, tensions remain high, with Washington increasing military pressure and Iran highlighting missile upgrades and a shift toward offensive deterrence. US President Donald Trump has sharply escalated his rhetoric toward Iran’s leadership, warning that the country’s supreme leader should be 'deeply concerned' as Washington and Tehran move toward renewed negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program. When asked directly about Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Trump suggested that mounting US pressure, diplomatic and military, had put Tehran in a precarious position. Iran’s ISNA news agency also confirmed Oman as the host for the upcoming talks.

The kind of readers I have seen in Calcutta is nowhere else to be found across the country.” Veteran publisher Rajendra Kumar Mehra of Rupa & Co. commented in the course of his acceptance speech after being felicitated on Senior Citizen’s Day at the Book Fair last Friday. The 77-year-old publisher, who grew up in Calcutta and moved the business to Delhi in 1970 after starting out under his granduncle’s stewardship in their Bankim Chatterjee Street outlet, spoke in Bengali. “I asked people in my office to come over and find out from readers what they are looking for. Our earlier recipients in this category are Debajyoti Datta of Sishu Sahitya Samsad and Ranjan Sarkar of Ananda Publishers. We also give two other awards to a voracious reader and a veteran author,” said Tridib Chatterjee, general secretary of the Publishers and Booksellers Guild.

Certain nooks and corners of the township have started getting demarcated as street dog feeding zones. Boards are coming up bearing the name of Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC) to announce the stations as “designated dog feeding place”. In this ward, feeding zones have come up near CB Block community centre, near Vidyasagar Abasan, and around BA-CA Park. ADVERTISEMENT“I had asked residents to suggest suitable feeding zones but no quality response emerged, even from dog lovers. So, feeding zones would be required in every lane.”She also says the time duration mentioned on the boards cannot be maintained.

For football fans who believe that nothing beats the stadium experience, here’s scientific proof — from their heart rates. “This was a striking finding — we did not expect match days to stand out so clearly from non-match days,” Fuchs told this newspaper. Elevated heart rates in combination with alcohol are known to increase the risk of arrhythmias — irregular heart beats — and other cardiac events that might be relevant during high-stress sports events. Studies had over the past decade recorded increases in spectators’ heart rate, blood pressure and stress hormones during high-stakes football matches. Fuchs said the novelty of the new study lay in tracking sports’ fans heart rates during their everyday lives and comparing them with those on match days.

The Argentine artist has a basket full of such stones that she has been collecting over the years. ADVERTISEMENTIn Calcutta as part of the contingent from Argentina, which was the year’s focus country at the just-concluded Book Fair, Livneh showed The Telegraph Salt Lake her social media display picture. It was a photo of her palm in which was resting a stone shaped like a heart. Most of my collection is from there and Mar del Plata on the Atlantic Ocean in Argentina. “I gave it the caption El Mar hacedor y artista (The sea as creator and artist),” she said.

NEW DELHI: An analysis of mental health trends in the capital indicates a significant shift, with chronic emotional distress and daily coping challenges now outpacing acute crises. Data from Mpower, an initiative of the Aditya Birla Education Trust, reveals that Delhi residents are increasingly seeking help for low moods and feelings of getting overwhelmed, irritability, and exhaustion tied to urban stress. “Often people do not know what to call it, but they know they are not coping,” said Parveen Shaikh, president of Mpower. To fill this gap, Mpower has pioneered low-barrier interventions. A recent free Art Therapy workshop in Delhi provided a non-verbal, safe space for expression, representing a broader strategy to make mental health support more accessible and stigma free.

NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court has quashed a regulation banning the migration or transfer of MBBS students between medical colleges, holding it to be “manifestly unreasonable and arbitrary” and violative of the Constitution. A bench of Chief Justice D K Upadhyaya and Justice Tejas Karia rejected the National Medical Commission’s (NMC) justification that student migration was prone to misuse, observing that the “mere possibility of abuse cannot be a ground to deny legitimate rights of a citizen”. The HC struck down Regulation 18 of the Graduate Medical Education Regulations, 2023, and directed the NMC to frame a “proper policy” permitting migration of students, subject to appropriate conditions.

Mamata Banerjee has become the first serving chief minister in the country to argue a petition in the Supreme Court. Ms Banerjee listed some of these alleged infirmities. Bengal’s Opposition, which walks a step behind Ms Banerjee when it comes to harnessing op­tics, has dismissed the chief mi­nister’s day in court as theatrics. But in an age when politics is usually shaped more by the art of messaging than the message itself, Ms Banerjee, it must be said, has stolen a march on her rivals. With elections on the horizon, the BJP would not like to play catch-up to Ms Banerjee.

The recent sentencing of a high school physics teacher in China to 18 years’ imprisonment offers cold comfort to the parents of the 23-year-old woman whom he drove to suicide. When gossip about the teacher and the student reached the latter's mother, she confronted them both. In 2018, a 17-year-old had jumped to her death, egged on by a crowd both online and offline, for the same reason: two years of battling depression after her high school class teacher molested her. Only after her public suicide was the teacher arrested, but the court refused to make the crucial link between her suicide and the assault. As students prepare for the pre-university exam, high school becomes their second home and teachers become their guardians.

The petitioners argued that there was no need to mention caste discrimination as it would be covered under the general definition of ‘Discrimination’, “which includes all forms of discriminatory treatment, including caste”. A separate mention of caste discrimination is necessary in addition to its inclusion in the general definition of discrimination. Discrimination thus relates to social groups such as caste, tribe, race, colour or gender and not to an individual. At the same time, discrimination may differ among social groups with respect to the source and the nature of discrimination. This implies that the argument by the petitioner that caste discrimination of SC/ST/OBC should not be mentioned separately is not sustainable.

भास्कर न्यूज, पिंपपरी-चिंचवड़। टूर एंड ट्रेवल्स के व्यवसाय में निवेश कर हर महीने भारी मुनाफा देने का लालच देकर एक महिला से साढ़े 18 लाख रुपये से अधिक की आर्थिक धोखाधड़ी किए जाने का मामला पिंपरी इलाके में सामने आया है। इस प्रकरण में पिंपरी पुलिस ने एक आरोपी को गिरफ्तार कर लिया है। यह घटना वर्ष 2017 से 4 फरवरी 2026 के बीच शगुन चौक, पिंपरी स्थित जवाहर लाइट्स इलेक्ट्रॉनिक्स दुकान में घटित हुई।पुलिस द्वारा दी गई जानकारी के अनुसार, जयेश शिवराज चौधरी (40), निवासी साई चौक, पिंपरी ने शिकायतकर्ता महिला को अपने ‘वन वर्ल्ड टूर एंड ट्रेवल्स’ नामक व्यवसाय में निवेश करने का प्रस्ताव दिया था। आरोपी ने महिला को आश्वासन दिया कि यदि वह 25 लाख रुपये का निवेश करती है तो उसे हर महीने 60 से 70 हजार रुपये का तय रिटर्न मिलेगा। आरोपी की बातों पर विश्वास कर महिला ने उसे 25 लाख रुपये का चेक सौंप दिया।आरोप है कि चेक भुनाने के बाद आरोपी ने शुरुआत में कुछ रकम लौटाकर विश्वास बनाए रखा, लेकिन बाद में केवल 6 लाख 62 हजार 241 रुपये ही लौटाए। शेष 18 लाख 35 हजार 759 रुपये और मासिक रिटर्न देने में वह लगातार टालमटोल करता रहा। लंबे समय तक रकम वापस न मिलने पर पीड़िता को ठगी का अहसास हुआ।इसके बाद पीड़िता ने पिंपरी पुलिस थाने में शिकायत दर्ज कराई। शिकायत के आधार पर पुलिस ने धोखाधड़ी का मामला दर्ज कर जांच शुरू की और आरोपी जयेश चौधरी को गिरफ्तार कर लिया। पुलिस यह भी जांच कर रही है कि आरोपी ने इस तरह की धोखाधड़ी और किन लोगों के साथ की है।

लेखक के बारे में अमित शुक्‍ला अमित शुक्‍ला, नवभारत टाइम्स डिजिटल में असिस्टेंट एडिटर हैं। वह 18 साल से भी ज्‍यादा समय से पत्रकारिता से जुड़े हैं। इस दौरान उन्‍होंने बिजनेस, पर्सनल फाइनेंस, अंतरराष्‍ट्रीय व्‍यापार, शेयर मार्केट, राजनीति, देश-विदेश, प्रॉपर्टी, करियर जैसे तमाम विषयों को कवर किया है। पत्रकारिता और जनसंचार में PhD करने वाले अमित शुक्ला 7 साल से भी ज्‍यादा समय से टाइम्‍स इंटरनेट लिमिटेड के साथ जुड़े हैं। टाइम्‍स इंटरनेट में रहते हुए नवभारतटाइम्‍स डॉट कॉम से पहले इकनॉमिकटाइम्‍स डॉट कॉम में सेवाएं दीं। उन्‍होंने टीवी टुडे नेटवर्क, दैनिक जागरण, डीएलए जैसे मीडिया संस्‍थानों के अलावा शैक्षणिक संस्थानों के साथ भी काम किया है। इनमें शिमला यूनिवर्सिटी- एजीयू, टेक वन स्कूल ऑफ मास कम्युनिकेशन, माखनलाल चतुर्वेदी राष्ट्रीय पत्रकारिता विश्वविद्यालय (नोएडा) शामिल हैं। लिंग्विस्‍ट के तौर पर भी पहचान बनाई है। मार्वल कॉमिक्स ग्रुप, सौम्या ट्रांसलेटर्स, ब्रह्मम नेट सॉल्यूशन, सेंटर फॉर सिविल सोसाइटी और लिंगुअल कंसल्टेंसी सर्विसेज समेत कई अन्य भाषा समाधान प्रदान करने वाले संगठनों के साथ फ्रीलांस काम किया।... और पढ़ें

Here’s a breakdown of the current gold and silver pricesGold Prices on February 6, 2026As of today, gold prices in India have risen slightly due to global demand and inflationary pressures. Silver price in Delhi todayThe current price of Silver 999 in Delhi is Rs 2750 per 10 grams. Silver price in Mumbai todayThe current price of Silver 999 in Mumbai is Rs 2750 per 10 grams. Silver price in Kolkata todayThe current price of Silver 999 in Kolkata is Rs 2750 per 10 grams. Silver price in Chennai todayThe current price of Silver 999 in Chennai is Rs 2750 per 10 grams