HOSUR: At least 10 people received medical treatment, with two hospitalised, after a major fire Saturday disrupted production at a key Tata Electronics plant in Tamil Nadu which makes Apple iPhone components. The incident in Hosur is the latest to affect Apple’s iPhone supply chain just as the company is looking to diversify beyond China…
Akhilesh Yadav (File photo) NEW DELHI: Samajwadi Party is set to have two front seats in Lok Sabha, in what will give it the chance to accommodate another member besides party chief Akhilesh Yadav. Congress, meanwhile, will have four front seats and DMK one in the 18th Lok Sabha.Congress front row will be led by…
Uttarakhand chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami (File photo) DEHRADUN: A day after Uttarakhand chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami announced plans to introduce a law to curb “illegal purchase” of land in hill areas outside municipal limits and said his government would reclaim such land “illegally purchased by outsiders” to ensure that locals benefit from the…
MUMBAI: A unique instance of South Asian regional cooperation unfolded when a Mumbai-based eye surgeon operated on a blind man from Lahore at an eye hospital in Colombo earlier this month.The extraordinary circumstances arose after the Pakistani patient was unable to get an Indian medical visa despite four months of follow-up at his end as…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, during a rally in Jammu, promised voters that a full-majority BJP government is on the horizon. He highlighted this as a historic chance for the region to elect its own government and break free from decades of neglect and dynastic politics by Valley-based parties. JAMMU/NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi wooed…
NEW DELHI: Foreign minister S Jaishankar lashed out at Pakistan for its PM Shehbaz Sharif‘s remarks against India at the UN, saying that a dysfunctional nation coveting the lands of others must be exposed and countered.Countering Sharif’s “bizarre assertions” in which he had spoken about an alleged Hindu supremacist agenda and claimed that the people…
Father-son duo as CM and deputy CM CHENNAI: In the first such instance in India since Sukhbir Singh Badal served as Punjab’s deputy chief minister while his father, Parkash Singh Badal was CM, Tamil Nadu will now have a father-son duo as CM and deputy CM. DMK patriarch M Karunanidhi‘s grandson and CM MK Stalin‘s…
NEW DELHI: Government has made the National Security Council Secretariat (NSCS) the nodal agency for dealing with the growing threats to cyber security.As per a notification issued late Friday evening, PM-led NSCS has been mandated “to provide overall coordination and strategic direction for cyber security” in addition to assisting the National Security Adviser, the principal…
Ten tourists from Europe in J&K, some of whom had visited the region earlier during its years blighted by terrorism, have confessed to being struck by the “peace and serenity” now, more so when elections are underway.Octogenarian Glenys Gem of UK first came to Kashmir Valley when she was 43. “We first came in 1980…
NEW DELHI: Junior doctors in West Bengal have announced plans to resume a complete ‘cease work‘ in hospitals across the state following a scheduled Supreme Court hearing related to the case of the alleged rape and murder of a postgraduate trainee doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.This comes after junior doctors and nurses…
