The suicide of a second-year IIT-Bombay student has ignited debates over complex legal matters concerning abetment MUMBAI: The recent death by suicide of a second-year IIT-Bombay student brought into sharp focus one of the most legally complex and emotionally charged areas of criminal law: abetment of suicide. At its core, the offence requires a trial…
Vehaan (centre) and others construction workers of the plant LUCKNOW: Growing up in Dubai, 18-year-old Vehaan Subramanian had rarely needed to think about whether the water coming from a tap was safe to drink.A video showing communities struggling with arsenic-contaminated groundwater in India changed that assumption and eventually took the high school student from research…
Sarvesh Kushare, Parul Chaudhary and Tejaswin Shankar NEW DELHI: India enjoyed another productive day at the Asian Games 2026 in Aichi-Nagoya, adding seven medals on Sunday as athletics emerged as the biggest contributor with five podium finishes, while squash delivered two silver medals.The medal haul included silver medals for Ancy Sojan and Sarvesh Kushare, bronze…
India’s rise has been steady. From 39th in London in 2011, it improved to 33rd in Leipzig in 2013, 29th in São Paulo in 2015 and 19th in Abu Dhabi in 2017. SHANGHAI: Fifteen years ago, India stood 39th in a global competition that tests whether young people can actually make, repair, design, build and…
File photo: France’s foreign minister Jean-Noel Barrot (File photo: AP) France’s military support to Saudi Arabia amid repeated attacks by Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels is “strictly defensive”, French foreign minister Jean-Noel Barrot said on Sunday, as Paris prepares to deploy troops, radar units and defence systems to help protect key energy infrastructure.Barrot’s comments followed President…
Abhijeet Dipke has voiced strong concerns regarding the detention of Ashutosh Ranka GUWAHATI: Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) founder Abhijeet Dipke has warned that he will travel to Assam with other party members if co-convenor Ashutosh Ranka is not released after being detained by Assam Police.Dipke said Ranka was picked up from a private residence and…
Republicans hold a 218-214 House majority, with one independent caucusing with them and two vacancies; Democrats need four seats to take control. US Republicans are pouring money into more than three dozen US House races previously considered safe for the party, with Republican groups reserving $888 million in advertising for the coming weeks, compared with…
Waterfront Tomales Bay property (Credit: Instagram/the.marshall.store) A slice of Northern California’s laid-back waterfront life is suddenly up for grabs and the asking price is about $13 million.The 16-acre property in the tiny oyster-farming village of Marshall is not just a scenic piece of land on Tomales Bay; it is a long-held commercial and residential estate…
Gold and silver face another volatile week, with US jobs and inflation data, Federal Reserve signals, Middle East tensions and crude prices set to shape bullion sentiment. The holiday-shortened week will put the US non-farm payrolls and unemployment data in focus as markets assess expectations for the Federal Reserve’s October policy decision.Consumer confidence, GDP and…
Delhi minister Parvesh Verma said the video being circulated by the AAP did not show the full context of the incident. NEW DELHI: Delhi PWD minister Parvesh Verma on Sunday responded to a video showing him allegedly slapping a man during a road inspection in Tilak Nagar. Verma said he reacted after a worker accompanying…