NEW DELHI: An FIR has been registered against Samajwadi Party MP Ajendra Singh Lodhi at Kotwali Nagar police station in Uttar Pradesh’s Mahoba district on Tuesday, over derogatory remarks against Prime Minister Narendra Modi.According to news agency PTI, the case was filed on the complaint of BJP leader Satyendra Pratap Gupta following controversial comments made…
Rupee extended its losing streak on Tuesday, slipping to a record low of 95.63 against the US dollar in early trade, as it remained under pressure from rising oil prices, intensifying geopolitical tensions and fragile investor sentiment.The decline follows an already weak session on Monday, when rupee fell 82 paise to close at 95.31. Sentiment…
Horrifying video shows moment Frontier Airlines plane hits person on Denver runway A person who allegedly breached security at Denver International Airport was struck and killed by a departing Frontier Airlines aircraft late Friday last week, triggering an engine fire and a chaotic emergency evacuation that left several passengers injured.The Frontier flight, headed from Denver…
Dutch ornithologist Leo Schilperoord Dutch ornithologist Leo Schilperoord, whose lifelong quest for the rare and the beautiful ended in a global health emergency, has been identified as patient zero in the deadly hantavirus outbreak aboard the expedition cruise ship MV Hondius, according to Argentine authorities.Authorities believe the 70-year-old and his wife, Mirjam Schilperoord, 69, contracted…
NEW DELHI: The Central Bureau of Investigation will take over the murder probe into the killing of Chandranath Rath, an aide to Suvendu Adhikari.After the Bengal Police recommended a CBI probe in the case, the central agency formed a seven-member team led by DIG Pankaj Singh.“The investigation into the murder of West Bengal CM Suvendu…
AGARTALA: Dudhu Miah, a matriculate govt schoolteacher, lost his job in March 2020 during a high court-ordered scrutiny of 10,000-odd recruitments across rural Tripura. This week, he reclaimed his pride and dignity by clearing the Class 12 board exam — an achievement made sweeter by the fact that his daughter Ruma Akter was the other…
America’s immigration debate has once again become intensely ideological, emotionally charged and increasingly theatrical. In recent months, a flurry of anti-H-1B legislative proposals has emerged in Washington, targeting not just temporary work visas but the broader pipeline that attracts international students and skilled professionals to the United States (US). From calls to abolish the H-1B…
A temporary exhibition in New York City is showcasing nearly 3.5 million pages of newly released Justice Department documents tied to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his connections to President Donald Trump.The pop-up library, titled “The Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room,” contains the files printed and bound into 3,437 volumes…
GUWAHATI: Chief minister-designate Himanta Biswa Sarma is set to join BJP’s elite club of leaders who have held the CM’s post for consecutive terms — a circle led by none other than Prime Minister Narendra Modi — when he takes oath for his second successive term as Assam’s CM on Tuesday.PM Modi, who served four…
Delhi Police crime branch nabbed six alleged shooters linked to gangsters Rashid Cablewala and Hashim Baba at a Karol Bagh lounge. NEW DELHI: The crime branch of Delhi Police has arrested six shooters allegedly linked to gangsters Rashid Cablewala and Hashim Baba after tracing them to a party at a lounge on Pusa Road in…