KOLKATA: CBI has summoned 11 Kolkata cops for questioning on Monday and Tuesday in connection with its probe into criminal conspiracy and destruction of evidence in the RG Kar rape-and-murder case. This comes two days after the slain 32-year-old PGT intern’s parents took their complaint of “a slow-paced and ineffective probe” to CBI director Praveen…
Gusty winds combined with dry air and unusually high temperatures were fueling the rapid spread of fires in South Carolin. A wildfire near Myrtle Beach exploded overnight, doubling in size as more than 170 fires ravaged the Carolinas on Sunday, forcing evacuations from the coast to the mountains. With fierce winds and bone-dry conditions fueling…
Congress sources said while there is no view against an INDIA bloc meeting, there is no agenda at hand to hold one either NEW DELHI: Amid growing concerns over unity of opposition INDIA bloc in the wake of BJP’s political victories, a push from a section that it should revive its sense of purpose as…
NEW DELHI: In a significant blow to international drug cartels, Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) secured convictions in a dozen cases across country in first two months of the year. The convictions have resulted in 29 hardcore drug traffickers being found guilty, Union home minister Amit Shah said Sunday.In a post on X, Shah said, “Modi…
Elon Musk’s daughter, Vivian Wilson, has once again discovered she has a new half-sibling through the internet—this time marking the seventh such revelation.Wilson, 20, who is estranged from Musk, reacted to the news of her father’s 14th known child by updating a previous social media post, reported the New York Post.Last month, she had joked…
Patel said, ‘Gathering army of beggars doesn’t strengthen society, it weakens it’ BHOPAL: Madhya Pradesh minister Prahlad Patel has sparked a controversy by equating public demands and petitions to govt with “begging”. At a function in Rajgarh district on Saturday, panchayat and rural development minister Patel said this “army of beggars” is weakening society.“People have…
DEHRADUN: There was no time to run. One moment, the workers were asleep inside their container homes, the bitter cold pressing in from all sides, the hum of the mountains steady and unbroken. Then came a roar – deep, monstrous, growing louder by the second. The earth beneath them shuddered. The walls groaned. And before…
Foermer US President Joe Biden and Zelenskyy A tense Oval Office exchange between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has reignited an old but telling revelation—Trump isn’t the first US commander-in-chief to grow frustrated with the wartime leader. A resurfaced NBC News report from 2022 details a fiery phone call between then-President Joe…
NEW DELHI: Have you ever received a toll deduction message from your FASTag wallet even though your car was parked or you hadn’t passed through a toll plaza? Officials explain that this can occur when toll operators mistakenly enter the vehicle number, often due to issues with the FASTag being unreadable for various reasons, or…
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Jordanian border guards shot dead 47-year-old autorickshaw driver Thomas Gabriel Pereira from Kerala while attempting to illegally cross into Israel from the kingdom last month. He was part of a four-member group that had travelled to Jordan on three-month tourist visas, misled by an agency promising Israeli work visas.Pereira’s family in Thiruvananthapuram district found…
