NEW DELHI: After US President Donald Trump, his Russian counterpart President Vladimir Putin too called PM Modi to wish him on his birthday. Several other world leaders, including Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and Italy’s Giorgia Meloni, greeted Modi on his birthday.In their phone conversation, Modi and Putin took stock of various issues on the bilateral…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court agreed on Wednesday to examine whether a constitutional court can award a sentence of specific number of years to a convict in a heinous crime in substitution of life sentence imposed by a trial court, and said it was prima facie of the view that fixed term sentences could be handed…
DHAR: A “tearful” Jaish-e-Muhammed (JeM) commander’s rant in public about the price his outfit had to pay for being Islamabad’s proxy against India is further proof of “Indian soldiers bringing Pakistan to its knees in the blink of an eye” during Operation Sindoor, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Wednesday, alluding to an undated viral…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday cancelled the bail granted to gangster Chhota Rajan by Bombay high court in the murder of hotelier Jaya Shetty in 2001.Rajan was sentenced to life in the Shetty murder case in May 2024. The apex court, led by Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta, allowed the CBI’s appeal…
NEW DELHI: Electors will now be able to view the choice of candidates more clearly while voting in a Lok Sabha or assembly poll, with Election Commission on Wednesday allowing colour photos of candidates on the EVM ballot paper, alongside their names printed in uniform font type and a conspicuous font size.The changes – which…
NEW DELHI: ED Tuesday arrested former Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA) commissioner GT Dinesh Kumar in a money laundering case related to illegal allotment of plots. Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah and his wife are among others facing investigation in the case. He was produced before the special court on Wednesday and remanded in ED custody for…
On Sept 17, his 75th birthday, PM Narendra Modi launched India’s largest-ever health outreach programme for women and children, called the Swastha Nari Sashakt Parivar health initiative, and exhorted women to actively participate in the initiative. Under the initiative, the govt is going to organise more than 10 lakh health camps between Sept 17 and…
DUBAI: Asia Cup was enveloped in high drama Wednesday as the Pakistan team, smarting over being refused handshakes before and after the India match last Sunday, first threatened to boycott its must-win game against UAE, then started play an hour late. The team initially refused to travel to Dubai International Cricket Stadium after its call…
BENGALURU: Even as Supreme Court’s verdict on the validity of SIR of electoral rolls in poll-bound Bihar will determine its pan-India rollout, Karnataka is ready to launch the exercise as early as next week.Sources in the office of Karnataka’s chief electoral officer said preparations for SIR are almost complete. CEO V Anbukumar, however, said the…
NEW DELHI: Delhi Police has informed Supreme Court that Russian embassy counsellor (head of consular division) Arthur Gerbst had actively helped Viktoriia Basu flee the country unauthorisedly, taking her son born from her marriage to an Indian, by arranging a taxi which took her to Narkatiaganj (Bihar) from where she went to Kathmandu. It said…
