NEW DELHI: In a ruling on marriage, gender roles and maintenance rights, the Bombay high court has said that a wife cannot be treated as a “deemed maid” and should not be expected to compulsorily perform household chores.The high court ordered a chartered accountant (CA) husband to pay his estranged wife with Rs 20,000 every…
CHANDIGARH/NEW DELHI: Punjab police are believed to have filed two FIRs against Rajya Sabha MP Sandeep Pathak, who switched from AAP to BJP a week ago along with six others.While sources close to govt confirmed the FIRs, no one was willing to talk about it. No official statement on the nature of the allegations had…
Fame can change people a lot, but it can also affect the people around you and how they behave with you. Al Pacino, who has worked in the industry for 6 decades, spoke from experience about how people often change how they act around you if you become ‘famous’ in any sense. Quote of the…
KOLKATA: The Bengal Police on Sunday arrested Mohammad Jasimuddin, a Trinamool Congress councillor of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC), on charges of molestation and harassment of a minor girl.Jasimuddin, a councillor from Ward No. 39 in the Jorasanko area of central Kolkata, was taken into custody from his residence in the afternoon, police said.He has…
Texas is not renewing the driver’s licenses of those visa holders whose stamping has expired. Immigration attorney Emily Neumann has confirmed that what started as some sporadic incidents of Texas denying renewal of a driver’s license to those whose visa stamping had expired is now becoming a new rule that would affect visa holders in…
Oracle may be facing a bank-debt “problem” due to its deal with the maker of ChatGPT, OpenAI. This comes as American banks struggle to absorb the scale of financing tied to Oracle’s data centre expansion plans. According to a recent report by The Wall Street Journal, the issue stems from a $300 billion agreement between…
‘Beaten with rods, pit bulls kept to scare us’, recall rescued labourers AGRA: Days after 12 bonded labourers were rescued from an alleged captivity racket inside a disposable bowls factory in Muzaffarnagar’s Mandi village, survivors told police and doctors that they were confined for months, beaten with iron rods and spear-like tools as ferocious pit…
MS Dhoni and Hardik Pandya (X) There are growing signs that MS Dhoni could finally make his return in IPL 2026, despite earlier reports suggesting a longer absence. The veteran wicketkeeper-batter, who is yet to feature this season, was recently seen padded up during a Chennai Super Kings training session, as shared on the franchise’s…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to test the validity of the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Act, 2026, as a bunch of petitions challenged the constitutionality of the new provisions annulling self-perceived gender identity of persons and stripping trans men and trans masculine identities of statutory recognition.Senior advocate A M Singhvi,…
The Karnataka government on Wednesday withdrew the February 5, 2022 order issued by the previous BJP government that had effectively banned the hijab in educational institutions, and released fresh guidelines allowing students to wear “limited traditional and faith-based symbols” along with prescribed uniforms in schools and pre-university colleges across the state.The new order, which came…