Vick Kaushal starrer ‘Chhaava’ has completed a 12-day run at the box office The film based on the novel with the same title shows the Maratha warrior valor in the form of Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj, the son of Shivaji Maharaj. The movie had an impressive opening at the box office, making it the biggest opener…
File photo of Sajjan Kumar (Pic credit: PTI) NEW DELHI: A Delhi court Tuesday awarded two life terms to Congress ex-MP Sajjan Kumar (80) for murdering a Sikh man and his son during the anti-Sikh riots in Nov 1984. The court said the offences committed were “undoubtedly brutal and reprehensible”.The two life terms – one…
PRAYAGRAJ/VARANASI: The city of Prayagraj became the spiritual epicentre for 45 days, welcoming more than 64 crore people in a colossal pilgrimage. Now, as Maha Kumbh draws to a close after Wednesday’s Maha Shivratri snan, the sacred hum of prayers will fade. The makeshift settlements along Triveni Sangam will be dismantled. The city will slowly…
NEW DELHI: In a rare surgical procedure, doctors at AIIMS successfully conducted a procedure to separate a ‘parasitic twin’ weighing 15 kg from a 17-year-old boy hailing from UP’s Unnao district. The occurrence of conjoined twins is notably uncommon, with frequencies of 1 in 50,000 to 100,000 births. In certain instances, incomplete development results in…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Tuesday reversed Bihar Legislative Council’s July 26, 2024 decision to expel RJD leader Sunil Kumar Singh from the House for mocking and mimicking chief minister Nitish Kumar, and said the punishment was “excessive and disproportionate” to the nature of his misconduct.While a bench of Justices Surya Kant and N Kotishwar…
NEW DELHI: Holding that the evidence of a child witness stands on the same footing as any other witness if the child is competent to testify, Supreme Court has convicted and sentenced a man to life imprisonment for killing his wife by relying upon the statement of the couple’s seven-year-old daughter who witnessed the incident.A…
File photo of Bangladesh Hindu community members participating in a protest and block the Shahbagh intersection in Dhaka. (Pic credit: PTI) Joining issue with foreign minister S Jaishankar over the “very troubling” incidents of attacks on minorities in Bangladesh, foreign affairs adviser Md Touhid Hossain said it “cannot be an issue for India”, while also…
File photo of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping during a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the BRICS Summit, in Kazan. (Pic credit: ANI) NEW DELHI: Sino-Indian ties are set for a reboot, following the Modi-Xi meeting in Kazan last year and the subsequent visits to Beijing by NSA Ajit Doval…
NEW DELHI: Reaffirming India’s unwavering commitment to human rights, foreign minister S Jaishankar said on Tuesday that India will always advocate zero tolerance for terrorism and call out any effort to normalise it.Addressing 58th session of UNHCR, he said India has always played an active role in global promotion and protection of human rights.“Our approach…
MUMBAI: In a striking reversal of roles, campuses across India will send engineering faculty into factories, boardrooms and laboratories of the industries they prepare their students to join. For a full year, faculty will trade lectures for deadlines, syllabi for budgets, and the structured rhythms of academia for the relentless pace of the private sector….
