President Donald Trump once again warned that the United States would impose steeper tariffs on China if it curbed exports of rare-earth magnets, a move that could jeopardize a fragile trade truce between the world’s two largest economies. Speaking to reporters after a meeting with South Korean President Lee Jae Myung, Trump stated, “They have…
NEW DELHI: Nearly one in three school students in India now takes private coaching, with the practice far more common in urban areas, according to latest Comprehensive Modular Survey (CMS) on education released by govt. The findings sketch a system where government schools remain central in rural India while urban families increasingly prefer private schools…
New Delhi: At 21% above normal, north India has so far recorded its wettest monsoon since 2013, the year of the cataclysmic Kedarnath flash flood. Worryingly, in Aug, the region has experienced by far the highest number of ‘extremely heavy’ rain events since the India Meteorological Department (IMD) began collating this data in 2021.Till Aug…
New Delhi: Supreme Court may have fixed timeline for the President and the governors for taking a decision on bills passed by state assemblies, but has not been able over nearly 24 years to get high courts to comply with its 2001 judgment laying guidelines on speedier pronouncement of verdicts reserved in cases.In 2001, SC…
Mumbai: Bombay high court on Tuesday stated that public places cannot be occupied indefinitely, and Maratha quota activist Manoj Jarange cannot hold a protest at Azad Maidan in south Mumbai without prior permission from authorities. The high court mentioned that while democracy and dissent are cut from the same cloth, demonstrations should only be held…
Texas Republican Valentina Gomez (Source: X/@ValentinaForUSA) Teaxs Republican congressional candidate Valentina Gomez has triggered fresh outrage online after releasing a video on X where she is seen setting the Islamic holy book, the Quran, on fire. The video was captioned, “I will end Islam in Texas so help me God”, quickly went viral, drawing widespread…
India’s Cheteshwar Pujara (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File) Former Indian Test cricket stalwart Cheteshwar Pujara concluded his international career on Monday after representing India in 103 Test matches and 5 ODIs, accumulating 7,195 Test runs at an average of 43.60 with 19 centuries and 35 half-centuries to his name.Pujara’s Test journey began in 2010, and he…
New Delhi: Casting the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh‘s centenary as both vindication of its importance and presentation of a fresh challenge, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat on Tuesday said the organisation had endured a century of neglect, hostility and bans to emerge as a force of acceptance, and used the occasion to define Hindu identity as inclusive…
HYDERABAD: Suspecting his wife’s fidelity, a city welder allegedly stabbed her to death at a forest in Nagarkurnool district on Aug 21. He later set the body ablaze. Police arrested him and sent him in judicial remand on Monday. The victim was identified as 27-year-old private security guard Sravani from Mahabubnagar. In 2014, Sravani married…
Rescue operations underway NEW DELHI: A section of the Ramabai Apartment in Virar East collapsed during the intervening night of Tuesday and Wednesday, potentially trapping around 15-20 people under the debris, eyewitnesses say.Rescue teams from the police, fire brigade, and national disaster response force (NDRF), along with ambulances, arrived at the scene immediately after the…
