Spokesperson of the ministry of external affairs Randhir Jaiswal (Pic credit: PTI) NEW DELHI: Expressing concern over Khalistan supporters disrupting screenings of the movie ‘Emergency’ in the UK, MEA on Friday said freedom of speech cannot be applied selectively.“We consistently raise concerns with the UK government regarding incidents of violent protest and intimidation by anti-India…
VADODARA: Dairy major Amul has reduced price of its one-litre packets, giving some relief to household budgets amid rising inflation. This is the first such price reduction in one-litre pouches in decades.The Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF), the body formed in 1973 that markets dairy products under the brand name Amul, reduced prices of…
PUNE: Alerts from three Pune hospitals to local authorities last Monday about a higher-than-usual occurrence of Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS), a rare but treatable autoimmune disease, blew up into an unprecedented cluster of 73 cases by Friday – almost trebling in four days from the initial 26 cases that caused alarm. No GBS-induced death has been…
Chandigarh: The Punjab and Haryana high court made it clear that it cannot issue any directive compelling the central govt to enact a law mandating all women, without exception, to observe “Karva Chauth” rituals or to penalise those who fail to do so. While dismissing a plea that sought directions to declare Karva Chauth be…
Former Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg There seems more trouble for Meta’s former COO Sheryl Sandberg. Just days after, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg put the blame for all so-called wrong policies in the company on her, now comes a damning legal case. According to a recent report in New York Times, Zuckerberg blamed former COO Sandberg…
NAGPUR: A massive explosion at the ordnance factory Bhandara (OFBA) past 10.30am , a key defence establishment about 50kms from Nagpur, killed at least eight workers on Friday. There were 13 workers including two apprentices inside the unit, which makes low temperature plastic explosives (LTPE), when the blast happened.The blast was so severe that it…
NEW DELHI: AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan‘s son Anas was slapped a fine of Rs 20,000 for allegedly driving a motorcycle with a modified silencer, not wearing a helmet and misbehaving with police, an official said on Friday. A verbal spat unfolded when police caught Anas and another youth riding a Bullet with a modified silencer…
BENGALURU: Consent for a sexual relationship with a man can never become licence for him to assault the woman, the Karnataka high court observed recently.Partly allowing a petition filed by the accused — a serving circle inspector of police, Justice M Nagaprasanna quashed the charge of repeated rape under IPC Section 376(2)(n) against him but…
WAYANAD: A 45-year-old tribal woman was mauled to death by a tiger at Pancharakolly in Mananthavady municipality here on Friday morning when she went to pick coffee in a private plantation belonging to a family friend. The body, which was partially eaten by the tiger, was found by the Thunderbolt squad during its regular patrolling.The…
The Supreme Court on Friday came down heavily on a man for throwing his estranged wife and minor daughters out of their matrimonial home, equating his behavior to that of an animal. A bench of Justices Surya Kant and N Kotiswar Singh lambasted the man, saying, “What kind of a man are you if you…
