BENGALURU: The stench of rotting garbage is not unusual for pourakarmikas on the morning shift. But on Tuesday, as they made their way through the dumpyard in Govinda Shetty Palya, a residential pocket off Electronics City, something out of the ordinary caught their eye: a human skull, its empty sockets staring up from a mound…
From India’s counter to Trump’s tariff war and Rahul Gandhi’s attack on PM Modi, to fresh flood alerts for Pakistan, a big push for the 2030 Commonwealth Games, and Israel’s defence of its hospital strike in Gaza — here are today’s major developments.India’s first counter to Donald Trump’s tariffs TextileIndia, in its first counter to…
CHANDIGARH: The Punjab and Haryana high court has ruled that a fully mature, married woman who consents to sexual relations based on a promise of marriage cannot later claim it was rape.The court stated that such an act is an “act of promiscuity, immorality, and reckless disregard of the institution of marriage, not an inducement…
Raj Thackeray and Uddhav Thackeray (ANI photo) NEW DELHI: Former Maharashtra CM and Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray on Wednesday visited his cousin, MNS supremo Raj Thackeray, at his Mumbai residence to offer prayers on Ganesh Chaturthi.The visit once again highlighted the growing bonhomie between the two cousins, who have had a history of…
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Saurabh Bharadwaj NEW DELHI: AAP’s Delhi unit chief Saurabh Bharadwaj on Wednesday slammed the Enforcement Directorate, which raided premises linked to him as part of a money laundering probe, and accused Lieutenant Governor V K Saxena of conspiring to frame him in a false case.There was no immediate reaction from…
A photo of Adam Raine, taken not long before his suicide at 16, with his baby blanket, at the family’s home in Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif., on Aug. 17, 2025. More people are turning to general-purpose chatbots for emotional support. At first, Raine used ChatGPT for schoolwork. Then he started discussing plans to end his…
AI Image BAREILLY: In the wake of the outrage over a dowry-related murder in Greater Noida, a ‘mahapanchayat’ held in Baghpat has urged parents to gift pistols, daggers and swords to their daughters during ‘kanyadaan’, instead of the traditional dowry of gold, silver and cash. A video of Sunday’s event surfaced on Tuesday, prompting police…
NEW DELHI: India’s ongoing Artificial Insemination (AI) programme, which enables farmers to choose the gender of their cattle breeds, is not moving at the desired pace due to low semen production, inadequate supply of sex sorted semen and shortage of trained manpower in the country, a parliamentary panel which submitted its report to Parliament during…
NEW DELHI: India has issued fresh flood risk alerts to Pakistan, warning of a “high probability” of flooding in the Tawi river after heavy and continuous rainfall in the north forced the release of excess water from major dams, sources told PTI on Wednesday.Officials said the alerts, sent through the ministry of external affairs, were…
In a joint operation, STF and Gurgaon Crime Branch apprehended five shooters plotting to murder Bollywood singer Rahul Fazilpuriya, suspected in the earlier killing of his friend Rohit Shaukeen. GURGAON: In a joint operation, the STF and Gurgaon Crime Branch arrested five shooters involved in a conspiracy to murder Bollywood singer Rahul Fazilpuriya and are…
