Guwahati: American national Matthew Aaron VanDyke, who spent more than six months in Tihar Jail in an NIA case involving alleged weapons and drone training of Myanmar-based armed groups, has claimed on X that his arrest, along with that of six Ukrainians, was linked to Russia’s war against Ukraine.“India threw me and several Ukrainians in…
People stroll amid smog as air quality deteriorates in Delhi NEW DELHI: The Central Pollution Control Board on Tuesday defended its air quality monitoring methodology, explaining why official AQI readings are capped at 500 even as private monitoring apps reported levels as high as 1,800 in Delhi after Diwali.The clarification came amid questions over the…
Pakistan’s former foreign minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf vice-chairman Shah Mahmood Qureshi was admitted to a hospital after collapsing in his barrack at a jail in Lahore, a prison official said on Tuesday.According to the official, Qureshi suffered a dizzy spell while walking inside his barrack at Kot Lakhpat Jail on Monday, injuring his knee and…
Hema Malini hails Ranbir Kapoor, Sai Pallavi, and Yash’s ‘Ramayana’ after watching with ‘least expectations’: ‘Pleasantly surprised at the fabulous presentation; apt casting of the protagonists’ Veteran actor Hema Malini has shared her review of Nitesh Tiwari’s ‘Ramayana: Rise of a Legend’ after watching it in a theatre. The film, which stars Ranbir Kapoor, Sai…
Cricket Scotland said its decision was guided by its commitment to expanding women’s and girls’ participation in the sport Cricket Scotland has decided to suspend cricketing engagement with Afghanistan outside International Cricket Council (ICC) events, citing the Taliban government’s treatment of women and girls and wider human rights concerns.The governing body will continue to play…
New Delhi: Two men were arrested for allegedly facilitating a Rs 50 lakh cyber fraud in which a hotel finance manager was duped by a fraudster impersonating the company’s managing director. The entire amount was later refunded to the complainant following a court order, police said.The accused, identified as Ankesh Yadav (25) and Samir Sheikh…
CHENNAI: Naruvi Hospitals in Vellore has performed more than 1,000 joint replacement surgeries since in 2021, its chairman Dr G V Sampath said.The department of joint replacement surgery, which began operations in 2021 under the leadership of Dr Vernon Lee, has achieved the milestone, chairman Dr Sampath said.The hospital uses the US-made CORI robotic system…
Kolkata: Calcutta High Court’s vacation bench has restrained authorities from deporting a North 24 Parganas resident to Bangladesh until Dec 24 or further orders, directing officials to submit a detailed report before the regular bench next month.The petitioner, Mainul Haque Khan, was detained at the Ghojadanga border checkpoint on Oct 27 and sent to the…
Guwahati: For more than a century, they remained behind glass cases and in storerooms at Oxford’s Pitt Rivers Museum — thousands of miles away from the hills and communities to which they belonged.On Monday, the remains of 39 Nagas, most of them skulls taken during British colonial rule in India, were formally handed back to…
BJP’s Pankaj Chaudhary (right) has asked Akhilesh Yadav to apologise for 1990 killings of ‘Ram Sevaks’. LUCKNOW: Stepping up the attack on Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav over his proposed visit to Ram Temple in Ayodhya on Dec 12, UP BJP chief Pankaj Chaudhary on Tuesday challenged him to visit the temple on Dec 6…
