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
New Delhi/Bengaluru: As political outfits fall over each other to woo voters with sops during election time, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge took a realistic route and told the party’s state units to “announce guarantees on the basis of their Budgets”. The Congress president warned that any unplanned approach and announcement could lead to a “crisis.” … Read more
TEHRAN: Iran’s supreme leader vowed retaliation on Saturday for attacks by Israel, as an Israeli military official confirmed naval commandos seized a suspected Hezbollah operative in a Lebanon raid. The World Health Organization said four children were among six people wounded in a strike on a polio vaccination centre in north Gaza, where UN agencies … Read more
OTTAWA: Amid an ongoing diplomatic row, Canada has for the first time named India in a list of cyberthreat adversaries and suggested state-sponsored actors could be spying against it, an allegation that New Delhi slammed on Saturday terming it to be another example of Ottawa’s strategy to attack India.India is named fifth after China, Russia, … Read more
It’s not common for a political spectacle, even if it’s more action packed than a cinema, to linger in the public imagination for more than a week. In that sense, the maiden political conference of Tamizhaga Vetri Kazhagam, the party launched by actor Vijay could be mistaken as a success for too many people are … Read more