NEW DELHI: Congress MP and former Punjab chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi sparked outrage by questioning the credibility of India’s surgical strikes in Pakistan, saying he had “never seen where the strike took place.” The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came down heavily on Channi, accusing him of disrespecting the armed forces and playing politics over…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Thursday refused to entertain a PIL seeking a probe supervised by a retired SC judge into the Pahalgam attack where terrorists killed 26 tourists after identifying them by their religion and said no PIL should be filed which would demoralise the security forces. “Is this the way PILs are filed?…
NEW DELHI: Chhattisgarh govt sources on Sunday claimed to have cleared a portion of the Koragutta Hills in Bijapur, which borders Telangana, of Maoists‘ presence as counter-Naxal forces, who had encircled the Naxal bastion in an massive operation under way for the past nine days, reclaimed the hilltop and hoisted the tricolour there at 5,000…
NEW DELHI: Indian airlines are staring at additional weekly operational expenses of approximately Rs 77 crore due to closure of Pakistan airspace, amid escalating tensions in the aftermath of the Pahalgam terror attack.The closure is forcing airlines to take longer alternative routes, increasing fuel costs and flight durations significantly.Based on the number of international flights…
PM Modi during the meeting. NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday gave the Indian armed forces complete freedom to decide on the mode, targets and timing of response to the Pahalgam terrorist attack that claimed 26 civilians.During the high-level meeting, which Union defence minister Rajnath Singh, Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) Anil Chauhan…
CHENNAI: The DMK govt in Tamil Nadu got two controversial cabinet members to resign Sunday – electricity and excise minister V Senthil Balaji, whom Supreme Court gave an ultimatum last week to either exit or forfeit bail in a money laundering case, and forest minister K Ponmudy, in the dock for his purportedly disparaging remarks…
SRINAGAR: Security forces in Kashmir demolished three more houses linked to active terrorists overnight Saturday as part of an intensified crackdown following the Pahalgam massacre on April 22, authorities said Sunday. A total of nine homes have been razed since Friday.Unlike in other parts of India, where bulldozers are the preferred method for demolishing the…
BENGALURU: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and the Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences & Technology (SCTIMST), an institute of national importance, established a new partnership focused on space medicine to support India’s human spaceflight programme, Gaganyaan.The two organisations signed a framework memorandum of understanding on cooperation in space medicine, creating a formal…
There are proposals from Republicans in Congress to increase the tax on large endowments, potentially to 14 percent, much higher than the 1.4 percent put in place eight years ago. Assuming a 10 percent return, that would leave Harvard with a tax bill of about $742,000,000, roughly equal to what it spent on financial aid…
A rapidly spreading wildfire in New Jersey has prompted mass evacuations and the closure of a large stretch of the state’s busiest highway, the Garden State Parkway. Firefighters are still trying to combat the Jones Road Wildfire, which broke out on Tuesday and spread to 8,500 acres. The blaze began at 11 am on Tuesday…