If American Presidents were elected by a global, not local, vote, Donald Trump of Trump Towers fame might have had a chance of towering over the world on Tuesday, November 5. As things are, he will have to be content with the greatest trick-or-treat selection on earth. While his return to the White House might … Read more
When the late business tycoon cum philanthropist Ratan Tata (86) left a huge sum of money for the “unlimited care” of his pet dog Tito in his Will, it became a subject of household conversations and international headlines. Leaving assets for pet care in the Will is a common practice in the US and some … Read more
Recently, an opinion piece by three members of the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council suggested that foreign funds that were sent through international and national non-governmental organisations (INGOs and NGOs) have influenced planning detrimental to the nation’s development and prioritised unnecessary policies and programmes. They called this the “outsourcing” of policy and planning. Pointing to … Read more
New Delhi/Ranchi: Releasing the BJP’s “Sankalp Patra” (manifesto) for the Jharkhand Assembly election in Ranchi, Union home minister Amit Shah on Sunday announced that the party will implement the Uniform Civil Code in Jharkhand if voted to power in the state, but will keep tribals out of its ambit. At an event to launch the … Read more
HYDERABAD: Justice T. Vinod Kumar of the Telangana High Court deprecated the practice of citizens invoking the courts’ writ jurisdiction and stating falsehood in an affidavit. The judge imposed costs on petitioner Lankadasari Krishna, a resident of Secunderabad. The petitioner filed a writ petition contending that a person and members of his family had obtained … Read more
Mumbai: India’s former cricketers fell into stunned silence in the immediate aftermath of the unmitigated disaster against New Zealand here on Sunday. But once they have gathered their thoughts, they pulled no punches while reviewing the team’s debacle. The likes of Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag and Harbhajan Singh called for “introspection”, urged the team management … Read more
Lucknow: Posing as CBI and RBI officials, suspected cybercriminals recently put a retired banker and his wife under “digital arrest” for five days in Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut district and convinced the elderly couple to transfer more than Rs 1 crore to them. A senior doctor from Lucknow’s SGPGIMS lost Rs 2.81 crore under a similar … Read more
Meanwhile, a report by the Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC), said the PM2.5 levels decreased by 4 per cent as compared to Diwali last year. The national capital’s PM2.5 levels hit a peak by midnight on Diwali this year, which was 13 per cent higher than the peaks observed last year and in 2022, a … Read more
Mumbai: The fortress had been breached already. On Sunday, it just crumbled to the ground with the Indian dressing room sitting stone-faced, trying to process a fall so spectacular that nobody saw it coming. For the first time in their Test history, which goes back to 1933, the ‘Tigers’ at home had been whitewashed in … Read more
New Delhi: Close on the heels of Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging people to guard against the menace of ‘digital’ arrests, probe agencies said they are taking action against this category of cyber crime with the ED filing a charge sheet in one such case and the I4C issuing a fresh advisory. The Enforcement Directorate … Read more