Senior Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader and Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh PATNA: Senior Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader and Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh on Thursday launched a strong attack on the BJP–JDU government during his visit to Patna, saying the people of Bihar must “beware of the lies of dishonest parties”.Singh alleged that…
Mumbai hostage scare: 17 kids rescued from Powai flat; accused arrested NEW DELHI: Panic gripped Mumbai’s Powai area on Thursday after a man identified as Rohit Arya allegedly took 19 people hostage, including 17 children, a senior citizen and one unidentified man, inside a flat.Arya later died after being injured in the chest during a…
SHIMLA: The district court in Shimla on Thursday upheld the municipal commissioner court’s order to demolish the entire structure of the Sanjauli mosque, dismissing petitions filed by the Himachal Pradesh Waqf Board and the Sanjauli Mosque Committee, reported PTI.The Sanjauli Mosque Committee had challenged the May 3 order of the commissioner’s court, which directed the…
Abhishek Bachchan is one proud hubby who has never shied away from sharing his deep admiration for his wife, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan. Let’s throwback to a time when he praised her unwavering support and grace through every phase of life and even dubbed her as a ‘Supermom’.In a 2017 interview with ANI, the actor praised…
NEW DELHI: The government appointed Justice Surya Kant as the 53rd Chief Justice of India (CJI), the law ministry announced on Thursday.He will formally take oath on November 24, succeeding Chief Justice Bhushan Gavai, and will become the first top justice from Haryana. Who is Justice Surya Kant? Born on February 10, 1962, in Petwar,…
IIT Kanpur director Manindra Agrawal (Image credits: Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur) NEW DELHI: Cloud seeding is only a short-term emergency tool to combat severe pollution and poses no threat to humans or the environment, IIT-Kanpur director Manindra Agrawal clarified. He said the process uses only minute quantities of chemicals to induce rain and is…
The TOI correspondent from Washington: In a partial de-escalation of trade hostilities, the United States and China announced several tentative agreements on Thursday, including resumption by Beijing of global supply of rare earth elements and its purchase of US agricultural produce. The purported detente followed the first face-to-face meeting between President Donald Trump and President…
Tamil Nadu continues to be the cradle of Indian chess as 16-year-old Ilamparthi AR from Chennai became India’s 90th Grandmaster on Thursday, after securing his final GM norm at the Bijeljina Open in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Born in 2009, Ilamparthi had earlier achieved his first GM norm at the Ha Noi tournament in Vietnam (December…
NEW DELHI: Red Chillies Entertainment has told the Delhi high court that Indian Revenue Service officer and former NCB Mumbai zonal director Sameer Wankhede’s defamation suit against its Netflix series The Bads of Bollywood is “misconceived,” arguing that the show is “a work of situational satire” and that Wankhede’s reputation had already been under public…
Online brokerage Groww is gearing up for one of the most closely watched listings of 2025, as investors eye the Bengaluru-based fintech’s upcoming public issue amid a buoyant primary market. The company’s grey market premium (GMP) of Rs 10.5 suggests potential listing gains of around 10.5% over the upper end of its Rs 95–100 price…
