NEW DELHI: Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Friday heaped praise on China’s renewable energy leap, pointing out that the country installed a staggering 256 gigawatts (GW) of solar capacity in just the first half of 2025, more than the rest of the world combined.“China just installed a mind-boggling 256 GW of solar capacity in the…
Muzaffarnagar: A cyber fraud racket was busted here on Thursday, with the arrest of two men who allegedly extorted Rs 33 lakh from a retired engineer by posing as ED and CBI officials, police said. The arrested accused have been identified as Nikhil Goel, a resident of Dehradun, and Harprit Singh, a native of Chandigarh,…
NEW DELHI: A special NIA court in Jammu has given investigators 45 more days to keep two men in custody over the Pahalgam terror attack, extending their remand beyond the usual 90-day limit.On September 18, special judge Sandeep Gandotra allowed the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to continue its probe against Bashir Ahmad Jothat, a resident…
Indian techie Mohammed Nizamuddin, who was shot dead by US Police earlier this month, had alleged workplace racial harassment, including “wage-fraud, wrongful termination and obstruction of justice.” The accusations were made against “colleagues, employer, client, detective and their community altogether.”“I have been a victim of racial hatred, racial discrimination, racial harassment, torture, wage-fraud, wrongful termination…
PM Modi planting the sapling (ANI) NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday planted a Kadamb sapling at his residence, 7 Lok Kalyan Marg. The sapling was a personal gift from King Charles III of the United Kingdom, on PM Modi’s 75th birthday, shared as part of PM Modi’s “Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam”…
NEW DELHI: Jailed separatist leader and Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chief Yasin Malik has claimed that former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh expressed “gratitude” to him after he met Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) chief and 26/11 Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed in Pakistan in 2006.The separatist leader made the claim in an affidavit filed in the…
NEW DELHI: Leader of opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi’s shoutout to Gen Z to “stop vote theft” sparked a sharp retort from the BJP, with Nishikant Dubey quipping: “They are against corruption, why wouldn’t they drive you out?” The comments came in after Nepal Gen Z protest toppled the “corrupt” government and elected its…
Mumbai: Observing there is a need to discourage the trend of multiplicity of litigation, Bombay HC Thursday dismissed a PIL challenging Maharashtra govt’s decision to issue Kunbi caste certificates to members of Maratha community. “It is in the larger public interest that there should not be multiplicity of litigations, where different individuals file applications one…
BHUBANESWAR Two wives, two deaths, Rs 2 crore insurance cover. The double life of Odisha police constable Deepak Kumar Rout, 39, is under the scanner following his arrest for murder of his 25-year-old second wife, traffic constable Subhamitra Sahoo, who was found buried in a pit meant to pass off as a toilet. Subhamitra’s body…
NEW DELHI: Observing that “in a secular republic, the State must not turn a citizen’s faith into either a privilege or a handicap”, Supreme Court has pulled up states and UTs for not framing rules for registration of Sikh marriages (Anand Karaj) and directed them to do it within four months.A bench of Justices Vikram…
