NEW DELHI: The Kerala Congress’ official Twitter account on Friday mocked a wave of identical tweets related to the Tirupati Laddu controversy. The party highlighted the bizarre uniformity of posts from different accounts sharing the same anecdotal experience about the famous temple prasad, captioning it with a cheeky remark: “One Nation, One Mom.”The tweets, which…
Voting for the presidential elections began in the island nation of Sri Lanka on Saturday morning, kicking off the fight amongst 38 hopefuls for the post. The country is facing its first elections since it faced an economic crisis leading to political turmoil two years ago.The main contest is between current President Ranil Wickremesinghe, Marxist…
Cristiana Barsony-Arcidiacono, the 49-year-old Italian-Hungarian CEO of Hungary-based BAC Consulting, has become the centre of attention after her company’s involvement in the manufacturing of exploding pagers that killed 12 people and wounded more than 2,000 in Lebanon this week. While Barsony-Arcidiacono denies direct involvement, the pagers were reportedly licensed from a Taiwanese manufacturer, Gold Apollo,…
Representative image On Friday, the World Gold Council (WGC) said that the rural purchase of gold this festive season will provide fresh momentum to gold demand in the country. WGC has earlier revised the demand for gold this year to 850 tonnes from 750 tonnes. “Rural consumption demand has been showing signs of improvement and…
Rishabh Pant marked his Test comeback with India’s first match of the series against Bangladesh in Chennai, which is the first red-ball international for the wicketkeeper-batsman since his horrific car accident in December 2022.Pant, who returned to competitive cricket with the Indian Premier League earlier this year, spent more than a year in rehab following…
The Sept 16 alert from the Manipur CM’s office states that militants trained in the use of drones and missiles are reportedly grouped in units of 30 and scattered on the periphery, and expected to launch coordinated attacks. GUWAHATI: Manipur CM N Biren Singh’s office has forwarded to cops a purported intelligence alert about influx…
Sources said the history-sheeter, who recently walked out on bail, had been pressuring the deceased’s sister to drop her complaint against him. KANPUR: A 30-year-old man whose sister was a witness in a case against a notorious history-sheeter who is out on bail was beaten to death in a busy street in Shastri Chowk area…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Friday took a dim view of Karnataka HC judge V Srishananda’s purported gratuitous reference to a Muslim-majority Bengaluru locality as Pakistan, and said it would consider laying down guidelines to keep judges from getting carried away during judicial proceedings and ending up being the butt of ridicule on social media.CJI…
CBI casting aspersions that entire judiciary is hostile: SC NEW DELHI: CBI‘s complaint that it is having to contend with hostlity in the courts in West Bengal drew sharp reaction from Supreme Court which pulled it up for casting aspersions on the judiciary by branding all courts in the state as hostile, reports Amit Anand…
A Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) truck gets stuck after it fell upside down into a sinkhole at the City Post Office in Budwar Peth area premises during the ongoing drainage cleaning work, in Pune on Friday. A truck belonging to the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) sanitation department plunged into a sinkhole that opened up on…
