NEW DELHI: An OpenAI investigation has revealed that an Israeli company, STOIC, attempted to interfere in the recent Lok Sabha elections in India by peddling an anti-BJP agenda. This covert influence operation, dubbed “Zero Zeno,” was part of a larger effort by the firm to manipulate public opinion across various regions, including Canada, the United…
NEW DELHI: The Congress has decided not to participate in Lok Sabha election exit poll debates on the television channels which are scheduled for Saturday. Announcing the decision Congress leader Pawan Khera on Friday said the party does not wish to “indulge in speculation and slugfest for TRP”.Taking to X, Khera announced party’s decision and…
NEW DELHI: A Srinagar bound Vistara flight received a bomb threat on Friday but turned out to be a hoax after the security forces searched the aircraft, officials said.According to officials, the Air Traffic Control (ATC) Srinagar received an information ‘threatening call’, sparking a swift and coordinated response from the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF).Later,…
New Delhi: The DGCA has issued a show cause notice to Air India after some passengers fainted while waiting hours — in vain — onboard an aircraft without air-conditioning in sizzling Delhi for their San Francisco (SFO)-bound flight to take off on Thursday. Even after being allowed to alight, they had to wait at IGIA’s…
NEW DELHI: First pictures of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday meditating at the Vivekananda Rock Memorial.Winding up a gruelling two-month-long electioneering, Prime Minister Narendra Modi went into a 45-hour meditation on Thursday at Vivekananda Rock in Kanyakumari. Dressed in an orange attire PM Modi can be seen meditating in front of the statue of…
KOCHI: Kerala high court has ordered state govt to remove all illegal and unauthorised stones, crosses or other structures of religious significance erected on govt land by any religious group within a year.Justice P V Kunhikrishnan passed the order on a plea by Plantation Corporation of Kerala, seeking steps to evict encroachers from its estates….
GUWAHATI/AIZAWAL/SHILLONG: Floods and landslides triggered by continuous rain from Cyclone Remal’s impact and the onset of monsoon claimed six more lives Thursday in the North-East, increasing the death toll to 45 across the region.In Meghalaya‘s East Khasi Hills district, four people are feared dead due to a landslide, with one body found so far. One…
ALWAR/JAIPUR: Sariska Tiger Reserve has added a number of stripes to its sleeve. After nearly 16 years, the reserve is scripting a remarkable success story. The country’s first tiger reintroduction plan was launched there after its big cat population had been been annihilated, the number falling to zero. This year, two tigresses at the park…
JAMMU/AGRA: Twenty-two (22) people, including six children and eight women, died and 57 others were injured after a bus carrying pilgrims to Shiv Khori cave shrine in Reasi district of J&K plummeted into a deep gorge in Jammu on Thursday.The bus had started from Hathras in Uttar Pradesh and had reached Tanda area of Akhnoor…
NEW DELHI: Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Thursday raised several questions regarding Biju Janata Dal (BJD) leader VK Pandian‘s role in running Odisha. Sarma questioned whether chief minister Naveen Patnaik physically signs any file or if Pandian uses the CM’s digital signature. The Assam CM’s reaction came after Patnaik, during an interview with…
