NEW DELHI: A coalition ship on Thursday successfully intercepted an anti-ship ballistic missile (ASBM) fired Iranian-backed Houthi “terrorist-controlled areas” in Yemen towards the Gulf of Aden, the US Central Command (USCENTCOM) said. “The ASBM was likely targeting the MV Yorktown, a US-flagged, owned, and operated vessel with 18 US and four Greek crew members,” USCENTCOM…
Read today’s horoscope, April 25, 2024. Today we’ll be taking a closer look at what the stars have in store for each of the 12 zodiac signs. Our astrologer has analyzed the movements of the planets and the alignment of the stars to bring you the most accurate and up-to-date horoscope predictions for the day…
NEW DELHI: With the political slugfest over redistribution of wealth escalating, Supreme Court on Wednesday said it will not adhere to Justice V R Krishna Iyer’s 1977 Marxian interpretation of Article 39(b) of the Constitution that a community’s “material resources” would include private properties for reallocation to subserve the common good.Engaged in interpreting the ambit…
NEW DELHI: After another run-in with the foreign press, which saw senior ABC journalist Avani Dias alleging she was forced out of the country for not toeing the govt line, 30 India-based foreign journalists hit out at the govt for pushing out Dias at a time it was claiming to hold the largest democratic exercise…
Mumbai: It is an AI world that we are living in. AI is being used by nine in 10 internet users in India, thanks to the enormous computing capabilities on their phones, connectivity, and cloud infrastructure, finds a study by marketing data and analytics firm Kantar. The current AI user base of the country stands…
MUMBAI: At Rs 1,04,081 crore, online credit card spends crossed the Rs 1-lakh-crore mark for the first time in March. Online card spends rose 20% from about Rs 86,390 crore in March 2023, and 10% from Rs 94,774 crore in Feb 2024. Offline transactions (through point-of-sale machines) stood at Rs 60,378 crore in March, up…
LUCKNOW: After a series of flip-flops, Samajwadi Party declared on Wednesday Akhilesh Yadav as the party’s candidate for Kannauj Lok Sabha seat, replacing his nephew, Tej Pratap Singh Yadav, whose candidature was announced on April 22.A post from the party’s official X handle said the SP national president would “file his nomination papers for Kannauj…
NEW DELHI: Conspiracy against the Prime Minister amounted to treason and a person cannot be accused of such a serious offence irresponsibly without any cogent material, the Delhi high court Wednesday said. The court was hearing a lawsuit filed by BJD MP Pinaki Misra against lawyer Jai Anant Dehadrai, seeking to restrain him from making…
KOLKATA: Arguing that the Calcutta high court order scrapping all 2016 teaching and non-teaching staff appointments would “paralyse” schools in Bengal, leading to a “complete collapse of the education system”, state govt filed a special leave petition (SLP) in Supreme Court on Wednesday challenging it. The state also urged an interim stay of the high…
T’PURAM/JAIPUR/BENGALURU: Curtains were drawn Wednesday on a fervent campaign for phase two of the seven-stage LS polls slated for April 26 across 88 constituencies in 13 states, including all 20 seats in Kerala, 14 in Karnataka, 13 in Rajasthan, & eight each in Maharashtra and UP.Among the notable contestants in this round are Union minister…
