WASHINGTON: Two tech giants – Alphabet/Google and X (formerly Twitter) – are at the centre of election interference charges in the US, drawing their leaders Sundar Pichai and Elon Musk into what is already an ugly and rancorous fight between Democrats and Republicans. While Musk has openly thrown his support behind Trump Republicans, the India-born…
NEW DELHI: Even as the world grapples with the challenge of vaccine-derived poliovirus (VDPV), instances of which have been reported sporadically from countries using the oral polio vaccine, including India, a case has been reported from Kerala where the VDPV was transmitted from an immune-deficient child to his healthy father.The discovery was made during an…
PRAYAGRAJ: Allahabad high court on Monday set aside the conviction and four-year sentence awarded to Ghazipur SP MP Afzal Ansari in a Gangsters’ Act case linked to the murder of a BJP MLA, Krishnanand Rai, in 2005. Afzal’s late brother Mukhtar had been sentenced to 10 years in the same case lodged in 2007, reports…
DEHRADUN: Paramjeet Singh Bisht, 23, resident of little-known Khalla village near Gopeshwar town of Chamoli district in Uttarakhand, will represent the country in the men’s 20km race walk on Aug 1 at the ongoing Paris Olympics. However, his journey to be part of the Indian contingent was never easy.Speaking to TOI over phone just before…
NEW DELHI: Government Monday told Rajya Sabha that a clarification issued with regard to the gazette notification for name change mandating a married woman to get an NOC from her husband to revert to her maiden surname was aimed at avoiding any legal issues.Govt’s response is important since in March this year, a woman had…
President Joe Biden visited Texas’ Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, also known as the LBJ Presidential Library on Monday and gave his remarks to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act and outlined new proposals for reforming the US Supreme Court. This marked his first major speech since announcing his decision not…
THANE: NCP (SP) chief Sharad Pawar expressed concern over the potential for Manipur-like disturbances in Maharashtra and called for maintaining unity. At a Social Unity Conference in Mumbai, Pawar he Centre’s handling of the ethnic strife in Manipur, which has claimed several lives since last May and said there was concern that similar social disturbances…
China expectedly loomed over the Quad foreign ministers’ meeting in Tokyo Monday as India, US, Australia and Japan expressed serious concern over Beijing’s “dangerous manoeuvres” in the South China Sea (SCS) and called for an Indo-Pacific in which no country dominates and no country is dominated.In a first, India also joined others in upholding in…
NEW DELHI: New restrictions on movement of mediapersons within the Parliament premises triggered uproar on Monday, with leader of opposition Rahul Gandhi raising the issue in the Lok Sabha and urging the Speaker to “free them from the cage”.Later, in the meeting of the Business Advisory Committee, sources said Congress deputy leader in LS, Gaurav…
NEW DELHI: The defence ministry on Monday gave preliminary approval to the procurement of around 970 advanced land navigation systems (ALNS) for armoured fighting vehicles of the Army and 22 interceptor boats for the Coast Guard.The Rajnath Singh-led Defence Acquisitions Council (DAC) accorded AoN (acceptance of necessity) to the ALNS Mark-2, which will be “spoof-proof…
