NEW DELHI: DRDO should be in sync with rapidly evolving technological ecosystem, come up with cutting-edge products, develop ‘niche technologies’, enhance collaboration with private sector and include start-ups in R&D efforts, defence minister Rajnath Singh said Thursday.Interacting with scientists at the DRDO headquarters on its 67th foundation day, the minister asked them to keep an…
NEW DELHI: Coimbatore-based Santiago Martin, better known as ‘lottery king‘, has an annual turnover of Rs 15,000 crore from his lottery business, according to an ongoing ED probe that began in 2014. The enforcement agency has already attached properties and other assets worth over Rs 1,000 crore of Martin – Rs 622 crore by its…
NEW DELHI: Having fulfilled its objective to scrap the special status of J&K by rendering the controversial Article 370 defunct, the Modi government appears to have moved on to project the state as being one of the sources of India’s spiritual and cultural tradition as part of the larger Bharatiya culture.As part of the endeavour,…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court Thursday asked Uttar Pradesh government to engage forensic experts to reconstruct a 40-year-old illegible FIR in a Kanpur anti-Sikh riot case and asked the state legal services authority to provide leading criminal lawyers to complainants and victims’ kin to oppose closure reports in nine such cases. It said professional fees of…
NAGPUR: Bombay HC Thursday came to the rescue of a PG medical aspirant who was denied participation in counselling for admission to AIIMS Kalyani in Bengal for not reporting on time due to a missed flight last year. Terming the case ‘exceptional’, court directed AIIMS authorities to allow 27-year-old petitioner Kalyani Chakrawar to participate in…
Jalandhar: Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) is likely to accept the resignation of its president Sukhbir Singh Badal in its working committee meeting in the coming days, going by the Akal Takht’s directive of Dec 2, 2024.However, SAD is unlikely to implement the other directive on carrying out the party’s recruitment process through a seven-member committee…
KOCHI: The husband of Keralite nurse Nimisha Priya, on the death row in Yemen after being convicted of murdering a Yemeni national in 2018, is clinging to hope of “a last-minute pardon” as the clock ticks on his wife’s sentence after President Rashad al-Alimi gave his assent to the verdict last week.“We haven’t slept since…
NEW DELHI: Taking note of Enforcement Directorate’s “high handedness” and “inhuman conduct” in interrogating a person for almost 15 hours which went beyond midnight, Supreme Court on Thursday pulled up ED and expressed concern over the agency’s approach in conducting probe.A bench of Justices Abhay S Oka and Augustine George Masih said the agency was…
A 19-year-old social media content creator died by suicide, live on Instagram, Monday at her home in Chhattisgarh’s Janjgir Champa district. The horror came to light on Thursday. At least 21 of Ankur Nath’s followers watched in horror as she prepared to hang herself. Those who lived nearby rushed to her home but found it…
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Thursday said it now believes the suspect Shamsud-Din Jabbar acted alone in the New Orleans attack that claimed 14 lives. “We do not assess anyone else was involved in New Orleans truck attack,” Christopher Raia, deputy assistant director of the FBI’s counterterrorism division, said in a press briefing.Shamsud-Din…
