Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge (File photo) NEW DELHI: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Monday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump share a similarity in “destruction,” adding that this is why they keep praising each other.Kharge’s remarks came a day after Trump made a surprise live audio call to US ambassador to…
AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami CHENNAI; MLAs S Jayakumar (Perundurai), Maragatham Kumaravel (Maduranthakam -sc) and P Sathyabama (Dharapuram – SC) on Monday submitted their resignation to Speaker J C D Prabhakar. They were among the 25 MLAs from C Ve Shanmugam- S P Velumani camp who voted in favour of Tamiliga Vettri Kahagam govt…
NEW DELHI: India, which harboured nearly 8% of global biodiversity within only about 2.4% of the world’s land area, emerged as the leader in issuing Internationally Recognised Certificates of Compliance (IRCCs) for granting access to genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge under a global protocol, accounting for 60% of all such certificates issued worldwide, a…
NEW DELHI: US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Monday said India did not raise concerns over Pakistan’s reported role as a mediator in the ongoing US-Iran conflict, even though New Delhi remains concerned about terrorist groups operating from Pakistani territory.Responding to a question in Delhi on whether the Indian side expressed concerns regarding Pakistan…
Representational IMage (Image credit: ANI) MUMBAI: An Air India Express Boeing 737-800 operating a night flight to Kannur suffered damage during take-off at Muscat airport after the aircraft lined up with runway edge lights instead of the runway centreline at night, said sources. Oman’s Air Accidents Investigation Sector (AAIS) has classified the occurrence as an…
Supreme Court (Image credit: ANI) The Supreme Court on Monday expressed disappointment over the National Testing Agency’s handling of repeated paper leak incidents, observing that the agency appeared to have failed to learn from previous controversies despite multiple directions issued by the court.Hearing petitions seeking reforms in the examination system, the apex court sought responses…
Photo credit: ANI GUWAHATI: Assam government on Monday tabled a Bill on the Uniform Civil Code, seeking to ban polygamy and make registration of live-in relationships compulsory. Parliamentary Affairs Minister Atul Bora tabled ‘The Uniform Civil Code, Assam, 2026 Bill’ in the assembly on behalf of Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma.The opposition parties, including Congress,…
CJI Surya Kant (PTI photo) NEW DELHI: Reacting to PIL filed by a lawyer against Cockroach Janta Party, Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant on Monday said ‘don’t take it so sentimentally.’The plea filed in the Supreme Court alleged that a distorted and malicious narrative was being pushed to malign the judiciary despite the…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has now taken suo motu cognisance of the death of Noida-based model-turned-actor Twisha Sharma, a development that has pushed the case beyond a local criminal investigation into a matter of national judicial scrutiny. The case, which began with the 26-year-old’s death under suspicious circumstances at her in-laws’ home in Bhopal…
New Delhi: Gurindervir Singh, who has become the first Indian to clock sub-10.10 seconds in the men’s 100m sprint, holds the rank of a petty officer in the Indian Navy.Congratulating the Navyman, Indian Navy said in a post on X, “THE FASTEST MAN IN INDIA WEARS WHITES. Gurindervir Singh, Petty Officer of the Indian Navy…
