NEW DELHI: BJP leader Sita Soren has accused her assistant of attempting to shoot her at a hotel in Jharkhand’s Dhanbad district, police said on Friday. The accused was identified as Devashish Manoranjan Ghosh.According to officials, Soren’s assistant allegedly pointed a handgun at her following an argument.Soren was in Dhanbad to attend a wedding. After…
NEW DELHI: Khalistani extremists heckled and attempted to attack external affairs minister S Jaishankar in London on Thursday (IST) while he was leaving in a car after attending an event at the Chatham House think tank.A video circulating online shows a man running towards Jaishankar’s vehicle and tearing the Indian national flag in front of…
The Pune police arrested Dattatray Ramdas Gade, the 37-year-old man accused of raping a woman inside a bus in Pune’s Swargate bus station, on Friday with a ligature marks on neck, suggesting that accused may have tried to die by suicide, as per officials. Talking to reporters, Pune police commissioner Amitesh Kumar said, “According to…
A federal court on Sunday blocked the Trump administration from sending three Venezuelan immigrants held in New Mexico to Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba as part of the president’s immigration crackdown. In a legal filing earlier in the day, lawyers for the men said the detainees “fit the profile of those the administration has…
President Trump signed an executive order on Monday to delay enforcing a federal ban of TikTok for 75 days, even though the law took effect on Sunday and it is unclear that such a move could override it. The order, one of Mr. Trump’s first acts after taking office, instructs the attorney general not to…
Sam Konstas (Screengrabs) NEW DELHI: In a humorous incident, a fan’s enthusiasm to capture a photo with the rising Australian rising star, Sam Konstas, led to an unfortunate car accident. The 19-year-old, who has recently gained prominence for his impressive performances against India in the recently concluded Border-Gavaskar Trophy, found himself at the centre of…
South Korean authorities investigating impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol gathered outside his residence on Wednesday for what appeared to be a new attempt to arrest him over insurrection accusations related to his December 3 martial law declaration. Video footage showed vehicles from the investigating authorities in front of Yoon’s hillside villa in Seoul, where he…
Blue Origin will try to launch the massive New Glenn rocket again on Tuesday, a day after calling off the highly-anticipated launch on Monday due to technical issues.Blue Origin, the space company founded by Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, faced another hurdle in its quest to launch the rocket on Monday due to ice accumulation in a…
Once docked, the satellites will demonstrate power transfer capabilities, with electricity flowing from one satellite to the other to power a heater, confirming successful connection BENGALURU: Isro’s ambitious Space Docking Experiment (SpaDeX) mission, which is scheduled to do the docking manoeuvre on January 7, will see the two satellites perform a carefully choreographed orbital dance…
Congress on Monday alleged that RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat‘s statement about not raising ‘mandir-masjid’ disputes was aimed at misleading people and reflected RSS’s “dangerous” working as its leaders do just “opposite of what they say” and support those raising such issues. If the RSS chief is honest, he should publicly declare that in future Sangh…