Nepal’s Gen Z protest movement has chosen former Chief Justice Sushila Karki as its interim leader, news agency ANI reported citing sources. In a virtual meeting lasting nearly four hours, young organisers agreed that no youth connected to political parties should assume the role, and settled on Karki as the figure to represent them in…
Charlie Kirk was shot at during an event in Utah. Right-wing political commentator Charlie Kirk was shot at during an event at Utah Valley University. According to reports, the gunshots were heard when he was asked about mass shootings and he was going to answer. Attendees went for cover and the multiple witnesses said they…
NEW DELHI: Railway minister Ashwini Vaishnaw has asked the Rail Land Development Authority (RLDA) to take up residential projects on its land parcels in cities, to create affordable rental housing stocks for its young workforce.Responding to questions on the projects being executed by the RLDA across the country, Vaishnaw said there is a huge opportunity…
Right-wing activist and Donald Trump ally Charlie Kirk was shot in the neck Wednesday afternoon as he was speaking at a Utah university. The shooter was detained by the police and viral videos show that the alleged shooter is an elderly man. Police have not released any information about the shooter but it was initially…
NEW DELHI: Delhi high court on Wednesday asked the late Sunjay Kapur’s wife, Priya, to disclose all his assets, both movable and immovable. HC was hearing a suit filed by the two children from Kapur’s former wife, Karisma Kapoor, asserting their claim to a share in their father’s personal estate. Priya informed the court that…
NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi spoke to Qatar Amir Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani and expressed not just deep concern at the Israeli attacks in Doha but also condemned “the violation of the sovereignty of the brotherly State of Qatar”.Modi said India supports the resolution of issues through dialogue and diplomacy, and the need to…
NEW DELHI: Cabinet on Wednesday approved two major infrastructure projects in poll-bound Bihar with a cumulative investment of Rs 7,616 crore. While the greenfield four-lane Mokama-Munger highway (82.4 km) will cost Rs 4,447 crore, the doubling of Bhagalpur-Dumka-Rampurhat (117 route km) will entail an investment of Rs 3,169 crore.Announcing the decisions, I&B minister Ashwini Vaishnaw…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Wednesday acquitted a death convict in rape-murder of a seven-year-old girl in Uttarakhand in 2014 and said the highest degree of circumspection should be exercised by courts before awarding the death penalty.The gruesome rape-murder was termed as the ‘Little Nirbhaya’ case and had sparked outrage across the state. A bench…
NEW DELHI: Delhi govt will microchip 10 lakh street dogs, regulate pet shops and launch a rabies action plan. These decisions were taken on Wednesday when the Delhi Animal Welfare Board met at Delhi Secretariat under the chairmanship of development minister Kapil Mishra.As part of animal welfare measures following the Supreme Court’s recent directive to…
NEW DELHI: Centre on Wednesday agreed with opposition-led states that governors cannot sit over a bill indefinitely but argued before the Supreme Court that the Constitution had vested in them the discretion to decide whether to grant or withhold assent to legislation, return it with suggestions to the assembly or reserve it for the President’s…
