KOCHI: At St Francis Church in Fort Kochi, history seems to have been dead, buried and forgotten. There is just a nondescript blue board at the church that reads, “Remembering Vasco da Gama, Portuguese navigator; he arrived in Cochin …where he died and was first buried”.On Tuesday, it will be 500 years since the man…
Matt Gaetz filed a lawsuit against the publishing of the report calling it defamatory. Former Congressman and Donald Trump’s former pick for the attorney general post Matt Gaetz reacted to the ethics committee probe report into the allegations of sexual misconduct against him and said that giving funds to someone you are dating is not…
NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi on Monday said his govt had provided permanent govt jobs to nearly 10 lakh youth in the last one-and-a-half years alone, highlighting the Centre’s priority to maximise the potential of India’s youth.Speaking at a ‘Rozgar Mela‘ where he distributed over 71,000 appointment letters to new govt employees via videoconferencing, the…
HYDERABAD: Tollywood actor Allu Arjun, who obtained interim bail from the high court in a case registered by Chikadpally police in connection with a stampede incident at Sandhya Theatre, was served notice by the investigators to appear before them on Tuesday. However, the rank and file of the policemen, including the senior officer involved in…
Panaji: Beef vendors across Goa staged a statewide shutdown on Monday, a day before Christmas Eve, to protest harassment following a clash with members of a cow vigilante group in Margao last week. They said the shutdown would continue on Tuesday too.Quraishi Meat Traders Association has voiced concerns over the safety of its members following…
PILIBHIT/GURDASPUR: Photographs of Gurvinder Singh, Jasanpreet Singh, and Varinder Singh – alleged operatives of the Khalistan Zindabad Force (KZF) gunned down in UP on Monday – released by Punjab police, along with the images of their bodies after the encounter in Pilibhit, have raised questions about the sequence of events. The three men were killed…
Mumbai: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has taken possession of a flat in Thane that was registered in the name of a close associate of Iqbal Kaskar. This action is part of their ongoing money laundering investigation against him and his brother, Dawood Ibrahim.The ED alleged that Kaskar and his associates compelled a Thane builder to…
NEW DELHI: Khalistan Zindabad Force (KZF), to which the three pro-Khalistan terrorists killed in UP are being linked, is a radical Sikh outfit founded in 1993 by Ranjeet Singh @ Neeta, hailing from Simbal camp in Jammu, but currently ensconced in Pakistan. The outfit’s aim is to establish a sovereign Khalistan state. It mostly drew…
TOI Correspondent from Islamabad:Pakistan is set to acquire 40 of China’s much-anticipated J-35 stealth fighters, a Chinese media outlet reported, signalling Beijing’s first export of fifth-generation fighter jets to a foreign ally.The acquisition of fifth-generation jets is expected to impact the military balance between Pakistan and India, the Hong Kong-based “South China Morning Post” reported.The…
Image credit: Bhabha Atomic Research Centre MUMBAI: A little-known incident in the history of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons programme is a purported attempt made by the country in the early ’70s to copy the design of India’s Cirus reactor — a 40 MW thermal neutron research facility, which first achieved criticality at the Bhabha Atomic Research…
