NEW DELHI: Delhi Police on Saturday shifted activist Sonam Wangchuk to Safdarjung Hospital after his health deteriorated during his indefinite hunger strike at Jantar Mantar, saying the move was made on doctors’ advice and in compliance with Delhi high court’s directions.According to police, doctors visited the protest site at around 7am as part of a…
Officials including Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Chief Justice Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje’i, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi (Reuters image) Iran’s most hardline political factions have accused senior government officials of staging a “soft coup” against the country’s revolutionary leadership, deepening internal divisions as a fragile ceasefire with the United States comes under…
Social media influencers Andrew Tate and Tristan Tate were arrested by federal authorities in Miami on Saturday, the US Marshals Service confirmed.The agency said the brothers were taken into custody but did not disclose the charges against them. Brady McCarron, a spokesperson for the US Marshals Service, said the arrest warrant remains sealed.Andrew and Tristan…
US data centre protests go nationwide as AI infrastructure faces growing backlash (Reuters image) Opposition to the rapid expansion of data centres across the United States turned into a nationwide movement on Saturday as activists staged 142 protests across 42 states, marking the first coordinated national campaign against the growing AI infrastructure boom.The demonstrations were…
Iran war has killed 16 US service members as conflict spreads across Middle East (Reuters file photo) The US military said on Saturday that two additional service members were killed while defending against Iranian ballistic missile and drone attacks in Jordan, taking the total number of American military deaths in the Iran conflict to 16….
NEW DELHI: Drawing a distinction between using abuse language and the offence of obscenity, Supreme Court has said that use of mere swear words, profanities and vulgar expletives, however distasteful or uncivil they may be, cannot be equated with obscenity and is not an offence. It set aside conviction under Section 294 for a person…
Move Seen As Part Of Govt’s Outreach To Oppn For Delimit Bill Support NEW DELHI: A day after a parliamentary committee abruptly deferred the adoption of its report on a contentious anti-graft bill, another parliamentary panel, which is examining govt’s proposed law to replace multiple higher education regulators with one umbrella body, has called off…
SRINAGAR: School holidays in Kashmir have been extended by three days and Amarnath yatra suspended following forecast of an adverse weather spell from July 20 to July 23, even as mercury continued to rise across the region on Saturday, with Srinagar recording a maximum temperature of 35.9 degree.“It was a severe heat day in Kashmir…
JAMMU: Narcotics control bureau (NCB) seized 5 kg of high-grade heroin, suspected to have been smuggled from Pakistan, and arrested an alleged smuggler during a raid in a village along LoC in Jammu & Kashmir’s Poonch district on Saturday.“Around 9 am, the contraband, packed in five packets, was recovered from a person in Kosalyain village…
India’s ‘White Rabbit’ time network aims to cut reliance on foreign timing systems (Representative image to show time NEW DELHI: The Centre has commissioned a demonstration network that distributes a secure, tamper-resistant Indian Standard Time (IST) signal using “White Rabbit” precision timing technology, a move aimed at reducing dependence on foreign timing sources for critical…
SATHANUR/RAMANAGAR: A week-long mystery surrounding the sudden disappearance of a 16-year-old girl ended on Saturday evening after the Sathanur police exhumed her body from an agricultural farm in Kanakapura. The gruesome crime came to light following a loose-lipped, drunken confession by the accused minor boy’s uncle at a local bar.The victim and the 16-year-old accused,…
Amarnath, Vaishno Devi Yatras temporarily suspended due to bad weather NEW DELHI: Authorities on Saturday temporarily suspended the Amarnath Yatra and Vaishno Devi Yatra due to an adverse weather forecast, saying the decision was taken as a precautionary measure to ensure the safety of pilgrims.The Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine Board (SMVDSB) said the Vaishno…
