Police recovered the body of a 32-year-old Maharashtra woman from a suitcase in her flat in Bengaluru and detained her husband on suspicion of murder from Maharashtra. According to the police, the victim Gouri Khedekar’s husband called the house owner, informing him about the body of his wife in the flat. The house owner informed … Read more
Pope Francis marks the 12th anniversary of his election as pontiff while continuing his stay at Rome’s Gemelli hospital, where he has been receiving treatment for double pneumonia and other infections since February 14. Catholics around the world are praying for his recovery. “The clinical condition of the Holy Father has remained stable in the … Read more
FACING heat from within over his remarks praising the Kerala LDF government’s handling of the economy, senior Congress MP Shashi Tharoor has underlined the need for the party to expand its base to attract new voters and flagged the “absence of a leader in Kerala’s Congress”. He also said the fact that he had been … Read more
THE ruling BJP and the Opposition led by Congress entered into a slugfest after The Indian Express reported Friday that US President Donald Trump’s claim of a “$21 million allocation to India for voter turnout” was meant for Bangladesh, and not India. Reacting to the report, the Congress accused the government of making insinuations on … Read more
Purchase of iPhones, laptops, fridges and coolers; renovation of buildings; court cases – these were some of the areas where funds allocated for compensatory afforestation were diverted by Uttarakhand’s forest divisions, according to an audit by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG). A CAG report on the functioning of the Compensatory Afforestation Fund … Read more
One of the former nerve-centres of militancy in Assam, where the proscribed ULFA(I) still calls for a boycott of Republic Day and Independence Day celebrations every year, is where the Chief Minister has chosen to hoist the national flag on Sunday. The Chief Minister usually participates in Republic Day celebrations in Guwahati, but this time, … Read more
IN his crackdown on immigration announced on his Day One, US President Donald Trump may have flagged the southern border with Mexico and criminal cartels, but there is a sense of unease in New Delhi as well. For, even as Indians get most of the work H-1B visas and an estimated 300,000 Indian students are … Read more
Terming the property cards distributed under the Centre’s SVAMITVA scheme a “guarantee of economic security”, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Saturday said these documents, once issued in all the villages of the country, will unlock economic activity worth over Rs 100 lakh crore. The Prime Minister was addressing an event to distribute over 65 lakh property … Read more
The rail link to Kashmir is now ready to commence operations, said officials Wednesday, as the Commissioner of Railway Safety (CRS) greenlit the ambitious project’s final leg — the 17-km Katra-Reasi section. The inspection by the CRS, the railway safety audit body under the Ministry of Civil Aviation, is the final check before train operations … Read more
The inauguration of Donald Trump in his second term as President of the United States is coming closer. While questions abound on what his foreign policy choices will be on key issues, he has made some remarkable statements on the Middle East, where Qatari, Egyptian, and US negotiators have been trying to thrash out a … Read more