There will be no worship or holy bath at the well near the Shahi Jama Masjid in Sambhal in Uttar Pradesh. On Friday, the Supreme Court stayed the execution of a “notice”, purportedly issued by Sambhal municipal authorities, regarding the well. It sought a status report in two weeks even as the UP government contended … Read more
A video that surfaced after the murder of a 28-year-old accountant shows the assailant, later identified as her colleague, with a cleaver in the parking lot of a multinational business process outsourcing (BPO) company in Pune. A little over a minute long, the video shows dozens of bystanders at the spot, none of whom intervened … Read more
While there is no move yet to grant official recognition to the Taliban government, this is an effort by India to secure its own national and security interests with many moving parts in play. Five key factors were behind India’s move to engage at a higher level: Taliban’s benefactor and ally Pakistan has become an … Read more
A day after six people died in a stampede at the Sri Venkateswara Swami Temple in Tirumala, heads rolled within the Tirupati district administration and the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) Thursday after the Andhra Pradesh government under Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu suspended two officials and transferred three others. Naidu, who visited the site of Wednesday’s … Read more
A magistrate court in Kochi on Thursday remanded businessman Boby Chemmanur to judicial custody for 14 days after he was booked on charges of making alleged obscene remarks about Malayalam actor Honey Rose. Chemmanur was arrested on Wednesday hours after he was taken into custody from his estate in Wayanad. The central police in Kochi … Read more
A 26-year-old man from Delhi died in Goa on Sunday, a day after he fell unconscious during an electronic dance music (EDM) festival, police said. Police said they got a call Sunday morning from a hospital in Mapusa, Goa, informing them that the patient, identified as Karan Kashyap from Rohini in Delhi, was declared dead … Read more
From the vantage point, the greyish-green Siang river and the hills it snakes between are serene. The Siang, which unleashes its fury in the monsoons, is almost languid in the winter. The fields on either side are lush with crops grown by farmers from the surrounding villages — paddy, millets, greens and vegetables — and … Read more
HER BIRTH certificate is testimony to the unusual birth of B Glory. The place of birth is stated as: “On Board INS Gharial, on route Hut Bay to Port Blair”. The date of birth is December 29, 2004. Glory turned 20 on Sunday. It was on December 26, 2004, that her parents, B Balram and … Read more
The Enforcement Directorate Friday filed a money laundering case against Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leader K T Rama Rao and some others in a case linked to alleged payment irregularities during the Formula-E race held in Hyderabad in February 2023, official sources said. An Enforcement Case Information Report (ECIR) – the ED’s equivalent of a … Read more
The showdown in Parliament between the BJP and the Opposition over Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s remarks allegedly insulting B R Ambedkar has brought into focus the ruling party’s embrace of India’s first Law Minister who riled Hindu nationalists with his attacks on the caste system and his embrace of Buddhism towards the end of … Read more