<p>SFJ chief Gurpatwant Singh Pannun.<br></p> NEW DELHI: Secessionist group Sikhs For Justice (SFJ) has doubled down on its claim of a R&AW-Moscow collaboration against Khalistanis, stating that Russian Embassy in Canada played a key role in facilitating the assassination of terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar.SFJ chief Gurpatwant Singh Pannun said Russian Embassy shared “signal intelligence” with…
Opposition MPs stage a protest seeking Shah’s apology on Wednesday. NEW DELHI: The opposition on Wednesday opened a new front against the Centre over home minister Amit Shah’s alleged insult of B R Ambedkar. It held noisy protests in Parliament, leading to both Houses being adjourned and drawing a sharp retaliation from govt MPs.Leading the…
The United States has announced a fresh wave of sanctions targeting Pakistan’s long-range ballistic missile programme, including penalties on the state-owned National Development Complex (NDC) and three Karachi-based companies linked to it.In a statement on Wednesday, US State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller revealed that the sanctions were issued under an executive order aimed towards curbing…
Deputy CM Eknath Shinde in Nagpur on Wednesday. BJP MLC Ram Shinde’s filing of nomination is being seen as a setback for Shinde-led Sena, which was seeking the legislative council chairperson’s post. (PTI) NAGPUR: BJP MLC Ram Shinde filed his nomination for the election to the chairperson of the legislative council on Wednesday. While chief…
NEW DELHI: A three-judge bench of Supreme Court on Wednesday solved a 20-year-old riddle that plagued levying of excise duty – whether pure coconut oil is to be classified as an edible oil or under cosmetics as hair oil?This question had got a split verdict from the bench of the then CJI and Justice R…
Wisconsin female shooter wrote in her alleged manifesto that her therapist ‘s**ks’. As the investigators are looking for the motive behind 15-year-old Natalie Rupnow opening fire at her Wisconsin Christian School, it has now been revealed that she was in therapy over her troubled home life with her parents who kept divorcing and remarrying each…
It’s not every day that air travel feels like a cruise, but that’s exactly what passengers experienced on an American Airlines flight from Dallas to Minneapolis on 7th December. A sudden water leak in the cabin had flyers fearing they might “drown” at 30,000 feet above ground.The unexpected flooding began when a leak in a…
Moscow: Russia said on Wednesday it had detained an Uzbek man who had confessed to planting and detonating a bomb which killed a top general, Igor Kirillov, in Moscow on the instructions of Ukraine’s SBU security service.Kirillov, who was chief of Russia’s Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Protection Troops, was killed outside his apartment building on…
Recent economic indicators, including Tuesday’s robust November retail sales data, align with the Federal Reserve’s assessment of a strong economy. The US Federal Reserve cut the interest rate by 25 basis points on Wednesday, according to an official statement following the key FOMC meeting. This 25 basis points cut has led to the central banks…
It said China also seemed to be exploring production of conventionally armed ICBM, which would give it another option — alongside its 135 or so nuclear long-range missiles — that could be used to threaten the US. (AP photo) China’s nuclear arsenal and other elements of its armed forces have grown robustly despite anti-corruption investigations…
