NEW DELHI: A missile narrowly missed a vessel near the Yemeni port city of Hodeidah, as reported by the UK maritime trade operations on Saturday. The vessel and its crew were unharmed. The agency said that one missile was intercepted by US-led coalition forces, while the second landed in the water away from the vessel,…
NEW DELHI: Home minister Amit Shah on Saturday attacked Mallikarjun Kharge‘s “Kashmir se kya waasta hai” remark in reference to BJP raising the issue of removal of Article 370 of the Constitution in Rajasthan, saying it was shameful that the Congress president is asking such a question, which reflected his party’s “Italian culture” due to…
BHUBANESWAR: Sudarshan Haripal‘s journey has been remarkable, transitioning from a humble beginning of pasting posters on walls to now being a poster boy after BJD fielded him from Rengali assembly seat.Sharing his experiences, the 42-year-old said his joining politics was situational. “A hand pump had broken down in my locality in Goashala village in 2012.I…
CHENNAI/PUDUCHERRY: Scores of centenarians in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, most of them having voted in all parliamentary and assembly elections since Independence, began casting postal votes from their homes in the presence of poll officials from Wednesday.100-year-old Anjalai Rayappan from Uppalam constituency in Puducherry town, who raised her 10 children by working as a house…
Bengal BJP’s Suvendu Adhikari urged EC on Saturday to act against state DGP, East Midnapore SP, and two more cops after angry villagers’ attack on NIA officers when they went to Bhupatinagar to arrest two 2022 blast suspects in a pre-dawn operation.“It is due to Mamata Banerjee’s repeated instigation that even after ED officials were…
MUMBAI: A teenager from Mumbai’s Nalasopara died by suicide hours after he was cheated of Rs 2 lakh in a cyber fraud on Wednesday. The 18-year-old, playing games on his mother’s phone, could have unwittingly clicked on a fraudulent link that wiped off money from his father’s bank account.The Class XI student clicked on a…
NEW DELHI: India and Pakistan had tried to “interfere” in Canadian elections held in 2019 and 2021, the country’s spy agency has alleged, according to a media report on Friday. India has “strongly” rejected the allegation.An unclassified summary by Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) alleging the interference was tabled as part of federal commission of…
TARN TARAN: Three persons have been arrested, and a police search is on for two more people, for allegedly stripping a 55-year-old woman off her kurta and forcing her to walk through her neighbourhood unclad in an incident which took place in a Tarn Taran village on March 31, said a police official here on…
BHOPAL: Defence minister Rajnath Singh Saturday doubled down on his comment that India would not hesitate to pursue terrorists into Pakistan if they sought refuge there – “ghar mein ghuske marenge” – even as Pakistan’s foreign ministry reacted strongly to his statement, calling it “provocative and myopic”.Addressing poll rallies at Singrauli and Sidhi in MP,…
NEW DELHI: Indian IT major Wipro Saturday announced the resignation of Thierry Delaporte as CEO and named Srinivas Pallia as the new Chief Executive Officer of the company, effective immediately.The announcement comes days before the Bengaluru-headquartered company is scheduled to announce its Q4 and full-year earnings for 2023-24 on April 19. Wipro has been trailing…
