CHENNAI: A Hindi teacher at Bhavans Rajaji Vidyashram School in Kilpauk was suspended for allegedly hitting a Class III student for failing to recite a Hindi poem. According to a written complaint submitted by the student’s parents to the school management, the teacher also threatened to bar him from entering the school. Following the complaint,…
NEW DELHI: Ex-CM and Kalkaji MLA Atishi was elected by consensus in AAP as leader of opposition (LoP) Sunday. This is the first time a woman will hold the post in Delhi assembly and also the first time in any state in India that both CM and LoP are women.Atishi’s name was proposed by Burari…
Delhi CM Rekha Gupta (Pic credit: ANI) NEW DELHI: CM Rekha Gupta said Sunday the previous AAP dispensation left the state coffers “empty”, but assured that the BJP govt was “committed” to rolling out the Rs 2,500-per month honorarium scheme for eligible women.Addressing a joint press meet with Delhi BJP chief Virendra Sachdeva after a…
This is a representational image (Pic credit: Lexica) MUMBAI: American private equity fund KKR will buy 51% of HealthCare Global Enterprises, a Bengaluru-based, listed company, for Rs 3,203 crore, marking its second investment in India’s hospital sector after Baby Memorial Hospital. As a result, KKR will make an open offer to HGE’s shareholders for an…
CHENNAI: Chief minister M K Stalin fired yet another salvo at the Union govt on Sunday alleging the Advocates Amendment Bill 2025 was a direct assault on the autonomy of the legal profession.In a social media post on Sunday, Stalin said though the Union govt was forced to withdraw the draft bill due to ‘spontaneous…
US President Donald Trump (Pic credit: AP) US President Donald Trump’s administration announced on Sunday the elimination of 2,000 positions at the US agency for international development (USAID) and placed most remaining employees on administrative leave globally. The move follows a federal court ruling that allowed the administration to proceed with pulling thousands of USAID…
NEW DELHI: The law ministry on Saturday withdrew the draft Advocates (Amendment) Bill, 2025 from public consultation after various lawyers’ bodies threatened protests against the bill that proposes to take disciplinary action against any lawyer for disrupting court functioning, even cancelling their license to practice. Furthermore, the bill lays down “standards of professional conduct and…
Congress MP Shashi Tharoor (Pic credit: PTI) THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Four-time Congress MP Shashi Tharoor appears to be growing increasingly disillusioned with the party, following what he perceives as a continued sidelining by the high command. His recent public criticism of a leadership vacuum in Kerala Congress and a meeting with Lok Sabha leader of opposition Rahul…
NEW DELHI: Apple could be one of the biggest losers in case the Trump administration decides to slap reciprocal tariffs on import of electronics and smartphones from India as the move may put a spanner in its growing manufacturing investments here.The situation is equally grave for auto component makers, who ship parts worth billions of…
Telangana tunnel collapse (Pic credit: ANI) HYDERABAD: Six members of the team behind the heroic Nov 2023 Silkyara tunnel rescue operation in Uttarakhand joined the Army, NDRF, SDRF and local agencies on Sunday in accelerated efforts to save the eight workers – two of them engineers – trapped inside a collapsed portion of Srisailam Left…
