Telegram, the widely-used messaging application, has issued a strong defense of its founder Pavel Durov following his arrest at a Paris airport on Saturday. In a statement released on Sunday, the company condemned the notion that a platform’s owner should be held responsible for the misuse of the platform, asserting that Durov “has nothing to…
BIJNOR: In a bizarre incident, a Dhanbad-bound Express train split into two, leaving its last eight coaches stranded as it approached Chakrajmal village just before Seohara railway station in Bijnor around 4am on Sunday. The stranded coaches eventually came to a stop near Raipur village, leaving passengers confused and anxious as to what had happened.The…
NEW DELHI: Union minister Kiren Rijiju on Sunday hit out at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for his comment that there were no “Dalits and adivasis” in the list of contestants in the Miss India beauty pageant and said the statement was something that could only come from a “bal buddhi (juvenile)”.“Now, he wants reservations in…
MUMBAI: A 25-year-old resident of Khar was arrested in less than 24 hours after he allegedly threatened to rape a 49-year-old businesswoman after she called him out for riding his bike into a no-entry lane at Pali Hill Naka in Bandra last Friday. Police tracked Sagar Gujar down based on CCTV footage from the location…
ISLAMABAD: Two separate bus accidents left at least 42 people dead and dozens injured in Pakistan’s northeastern Rawalpindi division and volatile southwestern Baluchistan province on Sunday.The first accident happened on the Makran coastal highway when the brakes of a bus carrying Shiite Muslim pilgrims returning from Iraq through Iran failed while passing through Lasbela district…
JAMMU: Ghulam Nabi Azad’s DPAP on Sunday issued its first list of candidates for 13 seats in the first phase of Jammu & Kashmir assembly polls on Sept 18.Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal-led AAP also named seven of its candidates for the state’s first assembly election since the abrogation of Article 370.DPAP’s has picked former J&K…
Former US President and Republican nominee Donald Trump attacked the Biden administration’s response to the escalating Middle East conflict, asserting that President Joe Biden is “sleeping on a beach in California” while Vice President Kamala Harris is occupied with a campaign tour amid escalating tensions in the Middle East.In a post on X, Trump questioned…
Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance defended his controversial “childless cat lady” remark which sparked significant backlash by saying that he is “a real person” and his comments were “misinterpreted by Democrats”.The controversy traces back to a 2022 Fox News interview where Vance criticised left-liberal ideologies, referring to some Democrats and their allies as “childless…
Israel and the Lebanon-based organisation Hezbollah exchanged messages through intermediaries on Sunday to avert further escalation after engaging in one of the biggest exchanges of fire in the past 10 months.The primary message conveyed was that both parties considered that the intense bombardment was “done” and that neither side desired a full-scale war, two diplomats…
NEW DELHI: National Conference leader Omar Abdullah on Sunday took a shot at People’s Democratic Party leader Mehbooba Mufti on her proposal to support the National Conference and Congress alliance in the upcoming J&K assembly elections, if they agree upon her party’s agenda. Abdullah asked Mehbooba to not field candidates against NC-Congress as their agenda…
