New Jersey Democratic Sen. Cory Booker held the Senate floor with a marathon speech that lasted 25 hours and 5 minutes, setting the record for the longest continuous Senate floor speech in the chamber’s history. His feat of endurance was aimed at showing Democrats’ resistance to President Donald Trump’s sweeping actions. Booker broke a record…
At least one person in a small plane travelling from Iowa to Minnesota died after the aircraft crashed into a house in a Minneapolis suburb Saturday, a city official said. The residents of the home were not hurt, Brooklyn Park spokesperson Risikat Adesaogun said. But the house was destroyed. It was not yet known how…
Muhammad Abbas (Pic credit: Blackcaps) NEW DELHI: New Zealand’s 21-year-old right-hand batter Muhammad Abbas made history on Saturday, smashing the fastest-ever fifty on ODI debut during the first match of the three-match series against Pakistan at McLean Park in Napier. The Lahore-born cricketer reached his half-century in just 24 balls, breaking the previous record held…
98 deaths since 2018, including At IITs, IIMs, NITs, IISERs. Supreme Court Monday set up a 10-member national task force under Justice (retd) Ravindra Bhat to analyse causes for student suicides and suggest measures to prevent such deaths on campuses. The team will include doctors and mental health experts. The directive came as the court…
NEW DELHI: Outlining a disturbing pattern of student suicides in educational institutions, the Supreme Court on Monday directed Delhi Police to register an FIR and probe the suicidal deaths of two IIT-Delhi students from the SC/ST community. A bench of Justices J B Pardiwala and R Mahadevan directed the DCP (south-west district) to register the…
This recruitment initiative is aligned with the company’s yearly lateral hiring strategy. Infosys, the Narayana Murthy founded software giant, is currently seeking experienced professionals across more than 40 different skill sets to fill various positions. The organisation requires candidates with a minimum of two years’ work experience in specialised fields including cloud computing, cyber security,…
The Trump administration asked a federal judge in Washington to cancel a hearing set for Monday evening where he planned to press officials about whether they have violated an order he issued barring the deportation of any detained noncitizens — including several suspected Venezuelan gang members — with little or no due process. In a…
NEW DELHI: In the last one year, the Supreme Court has acquitted more than a dozen persons, who were convicted concurrently by the trial courts and the High Courts and sentenced to death or life imprisonment, in cases that included rape-cum-murder of a 10-year-old girl and manslaughters.Despite repeated SC rulings that concurrent decisions of the…
