- India
Parliament rejects Oppn bid to remove chief poll commissioner, gives no reason
New Delhi: Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla and Rajya Sabha Chairman CP Radhakrishnan on Monday, April 6, rejected the impeachment motion against Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar, with no reasons cited for…
- India
Why no ‘Mr’, ‘Honourable’ for Anurag Thakur in FIR: Allahabad HC to UP Police
The Allahabad High Court has directed the Uttar Pradesh government to explain why its police force failed to use the honorifics “Honourable” and “Mr” before the name of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)…
- Telangana
Bhatti Vikramarka campaigns in Puducherry, cites Telangana’s welfare record
Puducherry: Telangana Deputy Chief Minister Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka on Friday, April 3, campaigned in Puducherry ahead of the assembly elections in the Union Territory (UT), urging voters to elect the Congress-Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam…
- India
How Hindutva campaign built the case for Maharashtra’s anti-conversion law
The Maharashtra Assembly passed a sweeping anti-conversion law on March 16, criminalising religious conversions deemed to involve a “promise of marriage” and handing police the power to act against interfaith couples on…
- Technology
Happy 50th birthday, Apple: From near-death to now a USD 3.6 trillion giant
On April 1, 1976, three men signed a piece of paper in a California garage and called their new venture Apple Computer Company. One of them, Ronald Wayne, sold his 10 per…
- Middle East
Gaza’s 15,000 missing cannot be found and Israel is ensuring it stays that way
An estimated 14,000 to 15,000 people are missing in Gaza with little prospect of being found either dead or alive because Israel has for years blocked the entry of the basic forensic…
- Telangana
Telangana spent zero from Centre’s mid-day meal funds in 2020-21: Data
Hyderabad: Telangana recorded zero utilisation of central funds under the PM-POSHAN mid-day meal scheme in 2020-21, even as the Union government released over Rs 45 crore to the state that year, according to…
- Hyderabad
Provocative songs, warning to Muslims: Raja Singh’s Ramnavami yatra in Hyderabad
Hyderabad: A Ramnavami procession led by controversial former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA T Raja Singh on Friday, March 27, turned into a show of strength marked by incendiary songs, open brandishing of…
- Middle East
Pakistan helped pull two top Iranian officials off Israel’s hit list: Report
As Israeli strikes continue to reshape the political landscape of West Asia, Pakistan has been quietly working the phones, according to a Pakistani source, with at least one concrete result. Israel removed…
- Business
India and Russia in talks to resume LNG sales amid West Asia crisis
In January, New Delhi made what many saw as a quiet but significant diplomatic concession, sharply cutting purchases of Russian crude oil as part of broader negotiations to soften punishing US tariffs…
- Middle East
Iranian strikes on US military bases in West Asia drive out American forces
In what military analysts are calling an unprecedented operational challenge for the Pentagon, thousands of American troops have been forced to abandon their bases across West Asia and relocate to hotels and…
- Middle East
Saudi Arabia’s Mohammed bin Salman lobbied Trump to continue Iran war: Report
Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has been privately urging Donald Trump to continue the American-Israeli military campaign against Iran, framing the conflict as a “historic opportunity” to reshape West Asia,…
- Hyderabad
Telangana HC finds HYDRAA chief guilty of contempt in Bathukammakunta case
Hyderabad: The Telangana High Court has held HYDRAA Commissioner AV Ranganath guilty of contempt of court for wilfully defying a judicial order, directing him to remove all structures and signages erected on seven…
- Telangana
Can’t block workers from picking their union, rules Telangana High Court
Hyderabad: The Telangana High Court refused to stall a secret ballot election to determine the majority trade union at Sirpur Paper Mills in Kagaznagar in Komaram Bheem district, saying that workers have the…
- India
Dainik Jagran editor to face trial for branding J-K man ‘terror associate’
The High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh has ruled that falsely branding a person as having links to terrorists amounts to criminal defamation, observing that such a portrayal “lowers the…
