LUCKNOW: BSP chief Mayawati removed her brother Anand Kumar, the party’s national vice president, from the post of national coordinator on Wednesday after he expressed reluctance to handle the additional responsibility given to him after his son Akash Anand was sacked and then expelled for alleged dissent.Mayawati picked Jat face Randhir Beniwal as co-national coordinator…
NEW DELHI: China on Wednesday announced a 7.2 per cent hike in its annual defence budget to take it to over $245 billion, as it continues to boost its military capabilities across land, air, sea, nuclear, space and cyber domains at a rapid clip to take on adversaries in the Indo-Pacific and beyond amid ongoing…
RAIPUR: A mysterious illness has claimed 13 lives within a month in a remote village in insurgency-hit Sukma district of Chhattisgarh. The administration, however, says there have been five recent deaths, the cause of only two of which is yet to be ascertained.News of the deaths in Dhanikorta took time to reach the administration. A…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Wednesday sought assistance of solicitor general Tushar Mehta in resolving the grievance of Indian Forest Service officers against their performance appraisal reports (PARs) being written by IAS officers as per the last June office order issued by Madhya Pradesh government.A bench of Justices B R Gavai and K Vinod Chandran…
The intrigue started when a clip of Musk offering Valentino a bottle of water racked up nearly 5 million views on X The internet went into overdrive after a mysterious blonde woman seated next to Elon Musk at Donald Trump’s address to Congress on Wednesday night became the subject of wild speculation. Now, her identity…
Children of H1-B visa holders who migrated to the United States as minors and are set to turn 21 are facing an existential dilemma. They can no longer be considered dependents of NRI parents (H-4 visa holders). US policy so far had given them two years to opt for a new visa status after ‘ageing…
Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah BENGALURU: Karnataka government is set to reintroduce a proposal granting 4% quota for Muslim contractors in public civil works, nearly a year after dropping the idea amid controversy and allegations of appeasement politics.The move is seen as an effort by CM Siddaramaiah to consolidate support among Ahinda (a Kannada acronym for minorities,…
Students of Jadavpur University with other students take out a protest rally from Jadavpur University over the clash between students and the police during West Bengal Education Minister Bratya Basu to the university, in Kolkata. (PTI Photo) KOLKATA: The “indiscipline” on display at Jadavpur University “cannot be allowed to spread like an epidemic across Bengal”…
Tamil Nadu chief minister MK Stalin chairs the all-party meeting at the Secretariat, in Chennai. (PTI) CHENNAI: An all-party meeting led by Tamil Nadu CM MK Stalin unanimously passed a resolution Wednesday opposing population-based delimitation as a “grave threat” to India’s federal structure and urged PM Narendra Modi to assure in Parliament that the 1971…
Two Kerala natives convicted in murder cases and sentenced to death in the UAE have been executed. The MEA identified them as Muhammed Rinash A and Muraleedharan P V. Rinash of Kannur was convicted in a case involving the murder of a UAE national. He had been working in a travel agency in Al Ain…
