NEW DELHI: Two men, including a journalist Kamran Alvi, were arrested on Wednesday for making “offensive” statements on Maha Kumbh and Hindu deities, police, PTI reported. “The accused was promptly arrested, and a case was registered under section 299 (deliberate and malicious acts, intended to outrage religious feelings of any class by insulting its religion…
NEW DELHI: External affairs minister S Jaishankar on Tuesday attended the first meeting of the Quad foreign ministers meeting in Washington DC since President Donald Trump returned to the White House.Following the meet, Jaishankar said that foreign ministers of US, Australia and Japan addressed different dimensions of ensuring the prosperity of Indo-Pacific region.In a social…
NEW DELHI: In a step towards developing next-generation hypersonic missiles, DRDO has conducted the successful test of an active cooled combustor of a scramjet engine on the ground for 120 seconds for the first time in the country.Hypersonic missiles, which fly at speeds greater than Mach 5 or five times the speed of sound, have…
West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee (File photo) KOLKATA: Bengal government appealed the RG Kar hospital rape-murder case verdict in Calcutta high court on Tuesday, questioning the rationale behind a sessions court not treating the crime “rarest of rare” and sparing convict Sanjay Roy the death sentence.The victim’s parents, too, intend to appeal Sealdah additional sessions…
The court found that the cause of death was due to manual strangulation associated with smothering, both of which Roy could have carried out alone Multiple allegations and theories surfaced after the rape and murder of a 31-year-old resident doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on Aug 9 last year. Judge Anirban Das…
NEW DELHI: As pending cases continue to mount in high courts because of multiple reasons, including judge vacancies not being filled, Supreme Court Tuesday said it was time to appoint ad hoc judges in HCs — invoking Article 224A of the Constitution — who would be part of division benches headed by a permanent judge…
PRAYAGRAJ: Billionaire Gautam Adani’s younger son Jeet will get married next month in a simple ceremony, without any pomp and show and celebrities.Adani, on Mahakumbh pilgrimage with his family, scorched speculations of a star-studded wedding of his son Jeet with Diva Shah, daughter of Surat diamond merchant Jaimin Shah. “It will be a very simple,…
A week after news that an Indian citizen from Kerala, Binil TB, died fighting for Russian forces in the Ukraine war, Andriy Yermak, Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, told TOI Kyiv had no confirmation of the participation of Indians in Russian forces. Speaking to Indian journalists virtually from Kyiv, Yermak acknowledged…
Nishikant Dubey (File photo) NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed Jharkhand government plea and upheld HC’s decision to quash an FIR against BJP MPs Nishikant Dubey, Manoj Tiwari, and other persons related to the 2022 Deoghar airport incident where allegedly the Air Traffic Control (ATC) was forced to give clearance for an unscheduled…
India was upset after Pakistan unilaterally sought a parallel process to address the issue despite World Bank asking both to tackle it mutually NEW DELHI: India on Tuesday welcomed the ruling by the World Bank-appointed neutral expert that said differences between India and Pakistan over the Kishenganga and Ratle hydroelectric power projects in J&K fall…
