SRINAGAR: The women’s wing of Ladakh Buddhist Association (LBA), one of the region’s largest religious organisations with a strong grassroots presence, has criticised the Union territory’s move to allow liquor sales, arguing it could aggravate social problems and warning of demonstrations if it is not reconsidered.LBA’s women’s wing called for strengthening efforts against drug trafficking…
NEW DELHI: A traveller with recent travel history from Uganda has been isolated at a government hospital in Bengaluru after reporting mild body ache, prompting heightened surveillance by the Centre amid ongoing Ebola outbreaks in parts of Africa.The Union ministry of health and family welfare on Wednesday said the individual has been admitted to the…
23-year-old Gabriela Saldana What began as a message in a student chat has ended in an arrest, after police said a ‘joke’ crossed into a serious threat.A 23-year-old student at Florida International University (FIU) was taken into custody after sending messages in a WhatsApp group that authorities say posed a threat of violence at a…
KOLKATA: Bhowanipore eventually turned its back Monday on Mamata Banerjee after three terms as the Bengal CM was sliced out of her Kolkata home turf in a knife-edge contest that saw her protege-turned-foe Suvendu Adhikari vanquish her by 15,105 votes.Mamata struggled to accept the outcome, claiming she and her TMC had been defeated “by force”,…
Union minister Kiren Rijiju (File photo) NEW DELHI: Union minister Kiren Rijiju on Friday drew a parallel between Rahul Gandhi and AAP national convenor Arvind Kejriwal after the Congress MP expressed “regret” before the Madhya Pradesh high court over his remarks on Union minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan’s son, Kartikey Singh Chouhan.In a post on X,…
Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah on Saturday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of attempting to topple his National Conference (NC)-led government by engineering defections, alleging that party MLAs were offered between Rs 20 crore and Rs 30 crore, ministerial berths and even the promise of statehood in exchange for switching sides.Addressing a…
NEW DELHI: BJP national president Nitin Nabin on Thursday questioned the practicality of a hypothetical alliance with actor-politician Vijay’s Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) and asserted that the saffron party remains firmly aligned with its existing ally, the AIADMK.“I believe he (referring to Vijay) is trying politics for the first time. I wish him well, but…
NEW DELHI: Inserting a new scrutiny dimension to child custody legal battles between estranged parents, Supreme Court has ruled that courts must first evaluate mental and psychological conditions of each parent and assess their abilities to deal with growing needs of a child before deciding such disputes.In application of the well-settled principle to serve “the…
NEW DELHI: Lok Sabha leader of opposition Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday accused the Centre of trying to grab power through the delimitation bill, adding that the women’s reservation bill had already been passed in 2023. He clarified that the Congress party “unequivocally” supported women’s reservation. He called the BJP-led Centre’s proposed move to increase Lok…
An ex-Microsoft employee who once won the highly sought-after H-1B visa lottery has returned to India, saying the visa system limited his ability to become an entrepreneur and forced him to rethink the “American Dream.”Hemant Shetty spent around 11 years in US after moving there for higher studies in 2015. Talking to the American Bazaar,…