BENGALURU: ED served summonses Monday on Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah‘s wife B M Parvathi and urban development minister Byrathi Suresh for questioning in Mysuru Urban Development Authority (Muda) land allotment case before the high court’s Dharwad bench clamped an interim stay on the central agency’s move until Feb 10.Justice M Nagaprasanna also reserved the court’s verdict…
Tamil Nadu deputy CM Udhayanidhi Stalin NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain writ petitions seeking criminal action against Tamil Nadu Deputy CM Udhayanidhi Stalin for his speech in Sept 2023 calling for the eradication of ‘Sanatana Dharma‘.A bench of Justices Bela M Trivedi and Prasanna B Varale raised questions and asked the…
NEW DELHI: A division bench on Monday delivered a split verdict on the controversy over the burial of a Christian tribal in Chhattisgarh, with one judge terming denial of burial in his village by local and state authorities as “hostile discrimination” on the basis of religion and allowed burial on his private land, and the…
NEW DELHI: Infusion of information technology in court proceedings notwithstanding, Supreme Court has barred police and law enforcement agencies from sending pre-arrest notices through WhatsApp or other electronic means to people suspected of committing a cognisable offence under Section 41A of CrPC and Section 35 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS).Both these provisions mandate a…
PM Narendra Modi spoke to US President Donald Trump Monday, pledging to work for global peace, prosperity and security. Amid concerns in India about Trump’s threat to hike tariffs on imports from India and elsewhere, as also possible friction over illegal immigration, Modi said in a post on X that both sides are committed to…
The announcement by India followed foreign secretary Vikram Misri’s visit to Beijing during which he also called on foreign minister Wang Yi. After the resumption of bilateral visits, India and China Monday took significant “people-centric” measures to normalise ties as they agreed to resume the Kailash Mansarovar pilgrimage in 2025 and also consented, in principle,…
Wall Street faced a major shock on Monday as Chinese AI startup DeepSeek emerged as a formidable competitor, triggering a sell-off in US tech stocks. NVIDIA, one of the biggest beneficiaries of the AI boom, saw its stock plunge by 17.95%, to $117.02 at 3pm EST. This development came after DeepSeek, a Chinese startup founded…
HYDERABAD: In an order that may prevent children from watching second shows, Justice B Vijaysen Reddy of the Telangana high court on Monday directed the state and cinemas not to permit children below 16 years to be in theatres before 11 am and after 11 pm.As most second shows end past midnight, the order will…
DeepSeek, the Chinese AI startup, has restricted new user sign-ups to those with mainland China telephone numbers. Reason: The company is citing “large-scale malicious attacks” on its systems. This comes after a surge in demand following the release of its AI chatbot, which it claims rivals OpenAI‘s ChatGPT but was developed at a fraction of…
ISLAMABAD: A Pakistani court has sentenced four men to death on blasphemy charges in the garrison city of Rawalpindi for allegedly uploading sacrilegious content about the Quran and Islamic figures.Tariq Ayub, a judge who awarded the sentence, said the contempt of figures sacred to Muslims and insulting the Quran were unforgivable offences that don’t deserve…
