VARANASI: A criminal wanted for murder, robbery, cow smuggling, and theft and carrying a Rs 50,000 bounty was killed in an encounter with a joint team of Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force, Azamgarh SWAT team and Sidhari police in UP’s Azamgarh district late Thursday. “Waqif had at least 67 cases against him for murder, robbery,…
NEW DELHI: Delhi airport’s aging air traffic control (ATC) software crashed Friday after a glitch the previous evening remained unresolved, delaying 800-odd departures and arrivals at India’s busiest civil aviation facility by up to two hours. The ripple effect forced carriers to cancel around 100 flights across routes through the day. Airports Authority of India,…
Donald Trump on Thursday repeated his claim about “blowing up the world,” saying Washington already has “enough” nuclear weapons. Describing his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping as “tremendous,” Trump said that his ultimate goal is denuclearisation.“I think that denuclearization would be a great thing. We could blow up the world 150 times,” Trump said…
NOIDA: Every winter, as toxic smog shrouds Delhi-NCR, air pollution dominates headlines and dinner-table conversations. Masks return, air purifiers hum and social media fills with outrage. But in Sector 7x, a cluster of 43 high-rise societies home to over one lakh residents, another crisis unfolds quietly, every day of the year. One that doesn’t cloud…
MUMBAI: In a rare show of unity, over a dozen senior civic officers in the BMC have come together to oppose the continued tenure of retired officer Chandrashekar Chore, who they claim is occupying a post that belongs to their cadre. Earlier this week, a letter regarding the issue landed on the desks of top…
Attorney general R Venkataramani NEW DELHI: Attorney general R Venkataramani apologised on Friday to Supreme Court following CJI B R Gavai deploring the Centre’s plea for referring to a five-judge bench midway through hearing on challenges to the validity of the Tribunal Reforms Act and two days later excoriating a request for adjourning a scheduled…
NEW DELHI: Noting that India continues to report one of the world’s highest rabies-related mortality rates and there has been an alarming increase in dog-bite incidents, making public places unsafe, Supreme Court Friday directed that stray dogs be removed from premises of educational institutions, hospitals, sports complexes, bus stands and depots, and railway stations. The…
Sunil Chhetri tested Ryan Williams in a playful quiz before handing him the Indian passport. (Instagram) Former Australian winger Ryan Williams has become an Indian citizen in what marks a significant development for Indian football, with the ceremonial handover of his passport conducted by Indian football star Sunil Chhetri at Bengaluru FC. This milestone represents…
NEW DELHI: Unsuccessful in stalling the SIR of Bihar electoral roll, the counsel for petitioners on Friday chose to argue the constitutional validity of Election Commission’s decision to conduct a pan-India SIR and told SC that the challenge to the validity of CEC and other ECs (Appointment, Conditions of Officer and Terms of Office) Act,…
NEW DELHI: The net deletion of around 47 lakh electors from Bihar’s rolls during the special intensive revision (SIR) and the consequent shrinking of the state’s voter base to 7.4 crore is among factors that may have pushed up Phase 1 polling percentage to record levels, EC officials said.Officers attribute the rise partly to better…
