KARWAR: National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested two individuals from Uttara Kannada district for allegedly leaking sensitive information about Karwar naval base to Pakistan in an alleged case of honey-trapping, sources said Tuesday.An NIA team from Hyderabad took the accused – Vetana Tandel from Muduga village and Akshay Naik from Halavalli – into custody on…
BHUBANESWAR: Three officials and two security guards of Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT) were arrested on Tuesday on charges of assaulting Nepalese students during their protest on the campus over a 20-year-old girl from Nepal being allegedly driven to suicide by a BTech batchmate, reports Debabrata Mohapatra.The arrests coincided with Odisha govt instituting a…
NEW DELHI: The Sangam waters where millions of devotees have been taking a holy dip every day during the ongoing Maha Kumbh has been found to be contaminated with alarming levels of faecal and total coliform, prompting National Green Tribunal (NGT) to summon UP govt authorities.A quality assessment report submitted to NGT by Central Pollution…
NEW DELHI: US President Donald Trump on Wednesday asked the purpose behind providing $21 million to India for “voter turnout” and said that the country “one of the highest taxing countries in the world”. This came after Elon Musk-led DOGE’s (Department of Government Efficiency) disclosed that USAID contributed $21 million to EC allegedly for boosting…
MUMBAI: Tata Group, India’s largest conglomerate, is set to expand its presence in healthcare through a Rs 500-crore contribution to Breach Candy Hospital, a move that will bring the elite 275-bed multi-speciality SoBo hospital within its ambit of influence.The funding will position the $165-bn Tata Group as the hospital’s largest financial backer, enabling it to…
CHENNAI: A man accused of smuggling ganja recently walked free after a city court threw out the case as Chennai police had borrowed a fruit vendor’s weighing scales to measure the narcotic seized instead of using their own equipment as mandated by law.Sub-Inspector Palani, who led the raid, initially reported to his superiors that his…
Russia on Tuesday demanded Nato to scrap its 2008 commitment to eventually grant Ukraine membership in the US-led military alliance. They also rejected the notion of Nato forces serving as peace-keepers under any ceasefire arrangement.Following meetings in Saudi Arabia with secretary of State Marco Rubio, US national security adviser Mike Waltz and Middle East envoy…
BHOPAL/JABALPUR: Madhya Pradesh high court (HC) Tuesday agreed to state govt’s proposal for a retrial of Union Carbide waste disposal at a Pithampur facility so that Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) can decide what amount of the waste should be incinerated and when.State govt presented a status report in court on compliance with the HC…
MUMBAI: Bombay HC on Tuesday rejected a petition by Mirza Himayat Baig, who was convicted in the 2010 Pune German Bakery blast case, to shift him to a general barrack from solitary confinement.“At this stage, there is no concern about any psychological trauma on account of any indefinite solitary confinement,” said Justices Revati Mohite Dere…
NEW DELHI: Amid a raging controversy over alleged funding by USAID for raising voter turnout in India, Congress on Tuesday said the official govt website showed BJP neta Smriti Irani as a former “goodwill ambassador” of the US agency. Congress functionaries accused Irani of being the “real agent” of billionaire investor George Soros, a charge…
