NEW DELHI: Price cuts towards end of 2024 saw sales of electric cars rise 20%, with the industry’s volumes finishing a shade lower than one lakh units against 82,688 units in the previous year.The growth comes despite doubts about a mass adoption for EVs as customers complain over a poor public charging infrastructure, longevity of…
NEW DELHI: Twice in the past 10 years, Arvind Kejriwal‘s AAP halted BJP’s relentless victory march in head-to-head contests in Delhi, reversing 7-0 clean sweeps by the saffron juggernaut in the immediately preceding Lok Sabha polls to win thumping majorities in the assembly elections of 2015 and 2020. Will the script be repeated in 2025?…
NEW DELHI: After shock back-to-back poll defeats following a defiant Lok Sabha show, Congress goes into Delhi elections with the ambitious hope of reverting its downbeat mood via a state where it is practically finished as an electoral force.The odds on Congress’ performance in Delhi and the stakes involved make the coming capital contest an…
RAIPUR: The Ranas of Bastar couldn’t believe the news flash: on the list of those killed in the Maoist IED blast in Bijapur was one “Tuleshwar Rana, driver”. Was it their Tuleshwar? And then the dreaded phone call came.Tuleshwar’s parents had no clue that he was ferrying policemen in his Scorpio. All they knew was…
Sebastian Zapeta-Calil, 33, allegedly had no memory of the December 22 attack on 57-year-old Debrina Kawam, a New Jersey woman, who was fatally burned while sleeping on the F train In a harrowing case that has shocked Brooklyn, a Guatemalan immigrant accused of brutally setting a woman on fire aboard a subway train was so…
JAIPUR: Supreme Court raised concerns Tuesday over a 2020 Rajasthan police closure report in a 2017 case of alleged rape and brutality against a woman and the abduction of her husband.The court sought all police records, statements and other materials to scrutinise police investigation, which saw a dramatic shift in stance following a change of…
CHHATRAPATI SAMBHAJINAGAR: Slain Beed sarpanch Santosh Deshmukh’s brother Dhananjay met Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis Tuesday in Mumbai and confirmed that a criminal writ petition pertaining to the murder filed in his name before Bombay high court’s Aurangabad bench has been withdrawn.The HC was yet to admit the online petition, which demanded a fair probe into…
NEW DELHI: The Centre on Tuesday directed states/UTs to monitor respiratory illnesses, even as it played down the threat posed by Human Metapneumovirus (HMPV).In a meeting called to review the present situation of respiratory illnesses in the country and the status regarding the HMPV cases following media reports of surge in HMPV cases in China,…
MARGAO: In a controversy that has stirred Goa’s religious and literary circles, Canacona police on Monday filed an FIR against Konkani writer and Sahitya Akademi awardee Datta Damodar Naik for allegedly hurting religious sentiments, after he referred to temple priests as “looters”.The case was registered following a complaint by Canacona resident Satish Bhat, who objected…
BENGALURU: In a jaw-dropping episode straight out of a wildlife thriller, a quick-thinking and brave farmer stopped a leopard in its tracks – literally by its tail.The incident occurred on Monday during a leopard rescue operation by the forest department at Chikkakottigehalli, 160km from Bengaluru, in Tumakuru district of Karnataka. The hero of the day…
