Patna: LoP in Bihar Assembly and RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav addresses the media after releasing INDIA bloc’s manifesto for Bihar Assembly elections, in Patna. (PTI Photo)(PTI10_28_2025_000392B) PATNA: INDIA bloc CM face Tejashwi Yadav‘s projection as “jannayak (people’s leader)” and “nayak (hero)” has been contested not only by BJP but also by a senior within his…
Visakhapatnam: Strong winds sway palm trees as fishing boats are pulled ashore in the wake of Cyclone Montha, in Visakhapatnam. (PTI Photo) KAIKNADA/BHUBANESWAR: Cyclone Montha roared ashore on the eastern coast Tuesday night, slamming into Andhra Pradesh between Machilipatnam and Kalingapatnam near Kakinada with winds topping 100km an hour and sheets of rain that ripped…
34,000 Caught Between Oct ’24 And Sept ’25 AHMEDABAD: US Customs and Border Protection intercepted 34,146 Indian nationals attempting illegal entry between Oct last year and this Sept, marking a 62% drop from 90,415 detentions during the previous fiscal. This constitutes the sharpest drop over the past four years in the number of Indians caught…
CHANDIGARH: Punjab and Haryana HC said a soldier wounded when he fell into a nullah while searching for terrorists during a counter-insurgency operation was entitled to war injury benefits, adding even accidental injury in action in an operational area was treated as a battle casualty. A division bench of Justice Harsimran Singh and Justice Vikas…
NEW DELHI: As the magnitude of cybercrime and the number of its victims continue to rise and has warranted Supreme Court’s intervention, a report prepared by Enforcement Directorate shows that while domestic players have been primarily engaged in digital arrest and other such frauds, Chinese nationals have almost acquired dominance over loan app- and cryptocurrency-related…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a meeting, in Tianjin, China. (File photo) NEW DELHI: India and China held discussions on border-related issues, news agency Reuters reported on Wednesday, quoting China’s defence ministry. Both sides had “active and in-depth communication on the control of the western section of the China-India border.”The…
A young woman from Punjab’s Moga district, who recently returned from Iraq after intervention by Rajya Sabha member Bab Balbir Singh Seechewal, said a travel agent from Jagraon lured poor girls from rural areas with false promises.Sharing her experience, she said 20-25 Punjabi girls were still trapped in Iraq after being taken there on pretext…
Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) of India RAJKOT: A consumer court in Gujarat’s Jamnagar has directed LIC of India to pay Rs 12 lakh with 6% interest to a policyholder whose husband died of a heart attack in 2022. The court also ordered LIC to pay Rs 5,000 as compensation for mental harassment and Rs 3,000…
NEW DELHI: Failure to curb the warming effects of climate change has seen the rate of heat-related deaths surge 23% since the 1990s, reaching an estimated 5,46,000 yearly deaths globally on average between 2012-21, according to Lancet Countdown Report on Health and Climate Change.Air pollution from wildfire smoke (PM 2.5) was linked to a record…
Amazon is reportedly preparing for a significant reduction in its corporate workforce, with plans to cut as many as 30,000 jobs starting this week, news agency Reuters reported citing three people familiar with the matter. The massive layoff—which would represent nearly 10% of the company’s roughly 350,000 corporate employees—marks Amazon’s largest job elimination effort since…
