Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignation: Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Alia Bhatt, Vicky Kaushal and others celebrate the victory Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has submitted his resignation to Prime Minister Narendra Modi following weeks of student protests over the NEET controversy and alleged exam paper leaks. While his resignation has been tendered, it is yet to receive official…

NEW DELHI: India will host a meeting of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, or Quad, with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio set to attend the gathering, the US Embassy in New Delhi said on Tuesday.The embassy, however, did not specify the dates for the ministerial-level meeting involving India, the United States, Japan and Australia.In a…

KOLKATA: For 50-year-old Benji, the anguish of disenfranchisement has brought with it the heartbreak of being orphaned again.An orphan from Kerala, his home for the past 27 years has been his employer’s family in Beleghata. But the Election Commission’s diktat has severed his ‘formal’ link with octogenarian Padmarani Baral, who he considers his mother. During…

US President Donald Trump (File photo/ANI) As the United States and Iran opened talks in Switzerland aimed at ending their war, US President Donald Trump claimed on Sunday that he had spoken overnight with Iranian officials and recounted an expletive-filled warning he allegedly delivered to them: if the Strait of Hormuz was shut again, they…

Larry Ellison had $5 billion lined up to buy Apple and make Steve Jobs CEO—but Jobs said no Larry Ellison once had the money, the credit, and a fully worked-out plan to buy Apple outright. What he did not have was Steve Jobs’ agreement. The Oracle co-founder revealed in a 2016 USC commencement speech that…

NAGPUR: Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) founder and activist Abhijeet Dipke on Tuesday ruled out entering electoral politics, saying citizens should not be compelled to contest elections just to demand their basic rights.Addressing a press conference ahead of a major nationwide demonstration, Dipke criticised the Centre for failing to engage with the country’s youth in the…

New Delhi: As he held talks with visiting Austrian Chancellor Christian Stocker, PM Narendra Modi stressed that India and Austria backed stable, sustainable and lasting peace in Ukraine and West Asia, reiterating that military conflict will not resolve issues. The visit, the first by an Austrian chancellor in 42 years, saw over a dozen agreements…