SHIMLA: Congress on Tuesday named Himachal Pradesh chief minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu’s wife Kamlesh Thakur as its choice for Dehra assembly bypoll against BJP‘s Hoshyar Singh.A notification issued by AICC general secretary (organisation) K C Venugopal said Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge had approved the candidature of Kamlesh from Dehra after she reportedly emerged as the…
GUWAHATI: Assam home and political secretary Shiladitya Chetia, a 44-year-old IPS officer with a President’s gallantry medal to his name, fatally shot himself in the head with his service weapon in the ICU of a private hospital in Guwahati Tuesday, minutes after his wife died there of cancer.Chetia’s wife Agamoni Borbaruah, 40, died at Nemcare…
Thiruvananthapuram: K Radhakrishnan, who won Lok Sabha election from Alathur, Tuesday marked his last day as MLA & minister in Kerala cabinet with a unique order – no more use of words ‘colony’, ‘sanketham’ and ‘ooru’, reminiscent of colonial era, to describe tribal & SC/ST settlements.Radhakrishnan was minister for SC, ST and OBC development besides…
SHILLONG: The unrelenting rains in Assam, Meghalaya and Arunachal Pradesh have prompted the IMD to extend the ‘red alert‘ for an additional day in the three states until Wednesday, even as floods and landslides continued to wreak havoc across the northeast, cutting off several areas.In Assam, the number of people affected by floods crossed 1.61…
NEW DELHI: Amid debate over whether loco pilot was at fault or signalling system was behind the fatal accident in West Bengal, officials said seven trains, including the Kanchanjunga Express and the goods train which rammed it, were issued authority letters to pass the defective automatic signalling system. Barring the goods train, the other six…
Mumbai: RBI and markets regulator Sebi have discussed the huge volumes in the futures and options (F&O) segment, amid concerns raised by finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman and senior govt officials.“The volumes in the F&O market are very large, perhaps larger than the nominal GDP. We have discussed the matter with Sebi, and they are dealing…
BAREILLY: A day after three members of a family were charred to death when they came in contact with an 11KV high tension wire at Hyderabad area of Uttar Pradesh‘s Lakhimpur Kheri district on Monday, UP minister for urban development and energy AK Sharma on Tuesday suspended an executive engineer, a sub-divisional officer (SDO) and…
LONDON: Dudley North parliamentary candidate Marco Longhi is under fire for “shamefully trying to divide communities” after he wrote a campaign letter addressed to “voters of the British Pakistani/Kashmiri community” boasting that he has always “been at the forefront of speaking against the Indian govt atrocities towards the people of Kashmir”.The letter asks whether his…
MOSCOW: For the first time in 24 years, Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday arrived in North Korea for a state visit, according to Russian local media sources.The visit at the invitation of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un underscores Moscow’s growing relationship with the nuclear-armed state since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.Ahead of the visit,…
Nvidia Corp’s surge continues, propelling the chipmaker to the top of the global tech market capitalization leaderboard. The AI chip maker has beaten technology giants Apple and Microsoft to become the world’s most-valuable company. This achievement underscores the dominance of artificial intelligence (AI) in investor focus.Shares climbed as high as 3.4% on Tuesday (June 18),…
