NEW DELHI: The Centre on Sunday expressed its readiness to discuss all “important issues” in the monsoon session of Parliament raised by opposition parties, including Operation Sindoor and repeated claims by US President Donald Trump that he had facilitated the ceasefire between India and Pakistan.At the customary floor leaders’ meeting ahead of the session beginning…
CHANDIGARH: Declaring ‘honour killings’ an attack on the very foundations of civilised society, a district court in Haryana’s Kaithal on Saturday sentenced two brothers to life imprisonment for the murder of their sister’s husband over a love marriage in 2017.“The crime committed was brutal, premeditated, and driven by misplaced notions of honour, for which there…
Mumbai: Film director Chandra Barot, best known for the blockbuster classic, Don (1978), which prompted multiple remakes in southern languages and spawned a series of sequels decades later, passed away due to medical complications at Guru Nanak Hospital in Bandra (east) on Sunday. He was 86.“My husband was suffering from pulmonary fibrosis for the past…
NEW DELHI: Union aviation minister Ram Mohan Naidu Sunday urged western media to avoid speculation and appreciated AAIB for decoding black box data in India.“AAIB has made an appeal to all, especially western media houses, which may have a vested interest in the kind of articles they are trying to publish. I believe in AAIB….
Jammu and Kashmir CM Omar Abdullah (PTI photo) SRINAGAR: Lieutenant-governor Manoj Sinha hailed J&K police Sunday for “establishing an era of peace”, the fulsome praise coming hours after opposition BJP accused CM Omar Abdullah of “confronting” cops and “provoking separatism” last week when they tried to stop him from heading to a graveyard of 1931…
NEW DELHI: The Punjab Police has issued a clarification after facing backlash over a controversial post that appeared on its official X handle on Thursday night. The now-deleted post showed an AI-generated graphic image of a light-skinned police officer with the Indian flag over his face pinning down a dark-skinned man marked with a Pakistani…
Senior Congress leader K Muraleedharan NEW DELHI: Senior Congress leader K Muraleedharan on Sunday launched a scathing attack against fellow party MP Shashi Tharoor, declaring that the Thiruvananthapuram parliamentarian will not be invited to any Congress events in the state capital until he changes his position on national security matters.Muraleedharan, a prominent figure in the…
NEW DELHI: Union Civil Aviation Minister Ram Mohan Naidu Kinjarapu on Sunday expressed his confidence in Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB)’s probe into AI 171 crash, urging people to avoid “jumping to conclusions” till the final report was out. He also questioned the coverage of the crash probe by the Western media houses pointing out…
NEW DELHI: Himachal Pradesh BJP president Rajiv Bindal on Sunday accused the Congress-led state government of betraying unemployed youth by introducing a ‘job trainee’ scheme instead of fulfilling its poll promise of providing regular jobs.Addressing a press conference, Bindal cited an old video of Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra in which she promised to give…
NEW DELHI: Maharashtra agriculture minister Manikrao Kokate has dismissed NCP(SP) Rohit Pawar’s claim that he was playing rummy in the assembly, clarifying that it was solitaire, an app he said may have been downloaded by a staffer, and had actually opened YouTube to check on lower house proceedings.“Rohit Pawar has become addicted to playing rummy….