- Friday, April 11, 2025
THOUSANDS of protesters on Tuesday blocked railway tracks at Badlapur station in Thane district and stormed a local school building after the alleged sexual assault of two four-year-old girls by the school sweeper in the washroom. Police cane-charged the protesters, who occupied the railway tracks, pelting stones at policemen. Hundreds…
THE Centre has told the Supreme Court that triple talaq legitimised abandonment of wives, as it defended in the Supreme Court the 2019 law criminalising the practice and urged that the petition challenging it be dismissed. In an affidavit filed in the court in response to petitions challenging the law,…
THE Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) while rejecting wrestler Vinesh Phogat's appeal against her disqualification reasoned that it is an athlete's responsibility to stay within the weight-limit, but termed as "draconian" the consequence of failing the weigh-in on the second day. Vinesh was disqualified from the Paris Olympics after…
THE Centre on Tuesday asked the UPSC to cancel the latest lateral entry recruitment, amid a row over reservation in the advertised posts. Union minister of state for personnel Jitendra Singh wrote to Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) chairman Preeti Sudan and asked her to cancel the advertisement so that…
INDIA'S traditional PC market - comprising desktops, notebooks, and workstations - rose for the fourth straight quarter, according to market research firm IDC. There was a 7.1 per cent growth in shipments to 3.39 million units in April-June this year, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Personal…
RAJINIKANTH’S 170th feature film, Vettaiyan, will be released on October 10 in Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, and Kannada, according to an announcement made by the film's production company. Directed by TJ Gnanavel, known for Jai Bhim, and produced by Lyca Productions, the film features Rajinikanth in the role of a police…
BANGLADESH'S interim government chief Muhammad Yunus has alleged that Sheikh Hasina's "brutal dictatorship" destroyed every institution of the country during her decade-and-a-half-long reign when elections were "blatantly rigged." Briefing foreign diplomats stationed in Dhaka for the first time on Sunday, 10 days after assuming charge as the chief adviser, the…
PAKISTAN'S jailed former prime minister Imran Khan has applied to become the next chancellor of Britain's prestigious University of Oxford, his party said. Khan, prime minister from 2018 to 2022, has just marked one year in prison on various charges from corruption to inciting violence that he said are politically…
AS Prime Minister Narendra Modi embarks on a nearly seven-hour visit to Kyiv this week, India has said it is willing to provide all possible support required to help find a peaceful solution to the Russia-Ukraine conflict. The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), announcing Modi's August 23 trip, said it…
AUTHORITIES in Pakistan on Monday reported a suspected case of Monkeypox (mpox) in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, taking the number of people affected by the virus to four. A 47-year-old resident of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), who recently returned to Pakistan from Jeddah in Saudi Arabia, was admitted to Islamabad's Pakistan Institute of…
