NEW DELHI: Ministry of external affairs (MEA) Friday denied any contradiction between what the Army chief, Upendra Dwivedi, had said this week on disengagement with China in eastern Ladakh and external affairs minister S Jaishankar‘s statement earlier in Parliament on the issue. While MEA has maintained that disengagement at friction points Depsang and Demchok has…
CHENNAI: Madras high court has directed the DGP of prisons and Puzhal Central Prison superintendent to explain how prisoners accessed mobile phones and ganja despite stringent security arrangements in all prisons.A vacation bench of justice S M Subramaniam and Justice V Lakshminarayanan issued directions to this effect on Friday, on a batch of pleas moved…
Israel’s justice ministry announced that it will begin releasing Palestinian prisoners starting Sunday, after the publication of a list of 95 prisoners to be freed as part of the first exchange for Israeli captives under the new Gaza ceasefire agreement. The release is subject to government’s approval of the ceasefire plan and will not take…
NEW DELHI: Parliamentary Budget session is set to commence from January 31 till April 4. Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman would present the Union Budget 2025 under the Modi 3.0 government in February. President Droupadi Murmu to address joint sitting of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha on January 31.“The Fourth Session of Eighteenth Lok Sabha will…
NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate on Friday attached over 140 immovable properties valued at approximately Rs 300 crore in connection with a Muda-linked money laundering case involving Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah and others.“It is alleged that Siddaramaiah (a Congress leader) used his political influence to get compensation for 14 sites in the name of his…
Prithvi Shaw. (Pic Credit – X) NEW DELHI: Astrologer Greenstone Lobo has predicted a challenging period ahead for Prithvi Shaw, the young Indian cricketer who has been struggling to find consistency in his career.In his special series, ‘StarPlay: Cricket & Astrology’ for TOI Sports, Lobo shared a detailed picture of Shaw’s astrological analysis and what…
The US Supreme Court on Friday unanimously upheld the ban on TikTok, set to take effect Sunday unless the app is sold by its China-based parent company.The court ruled that the national security risks linked to TikTok’s connections with China outweigh concerns about restricting free speech for the app’s 170 million US users.The decision comes…
Shreyas Iyer (Getty Images) NEW DELHI: The wait is finally over. India men’s senior selection committee chaired by Ajit Agarkar will pick India’s provisional squad for the upcoming Champions Trophy tomorrow (January 18) in Mumbai and they are set to face a happy headache while doing the same. While top-order is more or less clear,…
Sometimes, things happen that make even the most avowed atheists start to believe in divine intervention. Like the Albanian nun who came to a city and provided refuge to its wretched masses, making the whole world believe in her divinity. Or a coke-snorting footballer who ran through the entire English football team’s defence – after…
Donald Trump and Xi Jinping (R) (File photo) The United States President-elect Donald Trump held a phone call with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday evening, as Chinese state media CCTV reported. The call, which took place, comes just three days before Trump’s inauguration ceremony on January 20. No additional details about the conversation have…
