Designer Giorgio Armani, centre, poses with models at the end of his women’s 2019 Spring-Summer collection, unveiled during the Fashion Week in Milan (AP) Giorgio Armani, the legendary Italian designer who built an empire on understated elegance and timeless style, has died at the age of 91, his fashion house confirmed on Thursday. He died…
A farmhand who moved out of his two-bedroom home so that 50 students who had nowhere to go after their school collapsed in the recent rains has become an unlikely hero in Piplodi, a village of mainly tribal inhabitants in the hills of Rajasthan.The roof of the primary school in Piplodi, Jhalawar district, had given…
CHENNAI: Batting for social diversity in judicial appointments, the Union govt has written to the Madras high court collegium to provide appropriate representation to women and candidates from the SC, ST and minority communities while appointing new judges, reports Suresh Kumar K.The request from Union law minister Arjun Ram Meghwal to new Chief Justice Manindra…
NEW DELHI: India and Singapore announced a new road map for their comprehensive strategic partnership aimed at advancing cooperation in a range of areas like economic cooperation, skill development, digitalisation, connectivity, sustainability, healthcare, people-to-people contacts and defence and security, as PM Narendra Modi held talks with his visiting counterpart Lawrence Wong.Announcing the road map, Modi…
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has said that drugs used for gender transition should be banned, arguing they are linked to violent behavior. The tech billionaire’s comment came in response to a post on X (formerly Twitter) that described the arrest of a trans-identifying person accused of breaking into a home and sexually assaulting a toddler.The…
NEW DELHI/GUWAHATI: Days before PM Modi is due to visit Manipur, two key peace deals – one with the Kuki-Zo Council for opening the arterial Imphal-Dimapur National Highway 2 for the movement of commuters and goods, and the second with two Kuki umbrella militant outfits for renewal of the suspension of operations (SoO), while maintaining…
NEW DELHI: After Congress spokesperson Pawan Khera, his wife Kota Neelima has been issued a show-cause notice by the electoral registration officer (ERO) of New Delhi assembly constituency (AC) for being enrolled as an elector in two ACs located in different states.Neelima, a former general secretary of Congress’s Telangana unit who had fought the 2023…
NEW DELHI: Despite the NDA government being in regular touch with Congress for the nomination of MPs for the JPC on bills on dismissal of jailed ministers and chief ministers, the party is yet to provide any names, in what is viewed as being reflective of pressure on it in the wake of the committee’s…
Behrampore (Murshidabad): Moyna Khatun clutched her 11-year-old son’s birth certificate like a lifeline as she jostled in a long queue outside Behrampore municipality office in Bengal’s Murshidabad district. Neighbours had told her even digital records must be “updated”. Only after officials assured her that Asif’s certificate was valid did she leave.Khatun’s anxiety mirrors a wave…
NEW DELHI: A Delhi court on Thursday fixed September 10 for hearing a criminal complaint seeking registration of an FIR against former Congress president Sonia Gandhi over allegations that her name appeared on electoral rolls before she became an Indian citizen.Additional chief judicial magistrate Vaibhav Chaurasia scheduled the matter after going through a 230-page complaint…
