NEW DELHI: Congress leader and leader of opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi has widened his charge of “vote theft”, alleging that the Haryana assembly polls were not an isolated case. Addressing reporters in Panarpani, Madhya Pradesh on Sunday, he claimed that the BJP used the same method in earlier elections as well, including in…
Kirill Shevchenko has been punished for hiding a phone in the toilet during a chess tournament and been found guilty of cheating. (Image: X) Former world No. 75 chess player Kirill Shevchenko has been banned from FIDE-rated events for three years and stripped of his Grandmaster title after being found guilty of cheating during the…
Scott Sutfin-Glowski, a principal software engineer at Microsoft for 13 years, announced his resignation Thursday in a mass email sent to thousands of colleagues, protesting the company’s continued cloud services contracts with the Israeli military. “I can no longer accept enabling what may be the worst atrocities of our time,” Sutfin-Glowski wrote, choosing to leave…
MUMBAI: The Cayman Islands, one of the biggest financing hubs for investing globally, has offered to sign memorandum of understanding (MoUs) with markets regulator Sebi and also with the regulator for India’s finance hub GIFT City. The MoUs will facilitate transparent exchange of information between the regulators, André M Ebanks, Premier, the Cayman Islands, said…
The United States has implemented a uniform 25% duty on all goods originating from India, taking effect August 7. (AI image) Donald Trump’s 25% tariff on India: The Narendra Modi government is urging exporters to develop and market domestic brands as a response to the 25% by the Donald Trump administration. Additionally, it has requested…
Representative image (AI) In a significant acknowledgement of India’s growing economic importance to the United States, three members of the US House of Representatives have moved to roll back steep tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump on Indian imports, arguing that the measures hurt American jobs, consumers, and the broader US-India partnership.The resolution, introduced by…
Prashant Kishor (ANI photo) NEW DELHI: As Bihar gears up for assembly elections across 243 seats, political strategist-turned-leader Prashant Kishor has confirmed that he will contest the polls, with his political startup Jan Suraaj set to unveil its list of candidates on October 9 — a list he says will be “full of surprises.”The announcement…
NEW DELHI: Videos on Sunday morning showed India Gate, Akshardham, Anand Vihar, and Delhi airport barely visible through a dense grey haze, as the city’s air quality plunged into the ‘severe’ category, with the Air Quality Index (AQI) soaring to 497.The Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) invoked all measures under GRAP Stage IV across…
Lucknow: The ancestral house of hockey legend and Padma Shri awardee Mohammad Shahid — once a landmark for budding players — is on the verge of demolition to make way for a road widening and beautification project in Varanasi, the parliamentary constituency of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.Built in 1920, the house in which the ‘master…
Cricketer Hardik Pandya and model Maheika Sharma have turned heads at Mumbai airport, which has ignited gossip about a possible romantic link between the two. This comes after Pandya’s split from Natasa Stankovic, announced in July 2024. Hardik Pandya is once again in the news, not for his sixes, but because of rumours of his…
