US President Donald Trump‘s senior trade adviser Peter Navarro on Monday continued his rant and this time trained his guns at the member countries of Brics, calling them “vampires”.Navarro claimed the member countries of Brics cannot survive without trading with the United States.“They’ve long hated each other—and none survive without selling to the United State.”…
NEW DELHI: Attuned to understand the legal jargons, a two-judge bench of the Supreme Court on Monday found it difficult to digest the medical terminology saturated arguments of a doctor who challenged the validity of the definition of brain-dead in the Transplantation of Organs and Tissues Act (THOTA), 1994.Appealing against a Kerala HC judgment, Dr…
NEW DELHI: The ministry of external affairs on Tuesday called for exercising “restraint” in the ongoing GenZ protests in Nepal. It issued an advisory for Indians living there and advised them to “exercise caution and adhere to the steps and guidelines issued by the Nepali authorities.““We have also taken note that authorities have imposed curfew…
NEW DELHI: The stage is set for Tuesday’s Vice Presidential election, with National Democratic Alliance (NDA) candidate CP Radhakrishnan facing off against INDIA bloc’s Justice B Sudershan Reddy.The electoral process will take place in Parliament House from 10am to 5pm, with vote counting starting at 6pm. Both sides have conducted mock polls to ensure their…
NEW DELHI: BJP and its allies on Monday lashed out at Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge over a viral video purportedly showing his interaction with a distressed farmer in Karnataka’s Kalaburagi, calling his conduct “arrogant” and unbecoming of a senior neta. BJP also criticised Rahul Gandhi over his reported trip abroad, describing him as “a casual…
NEW DELHI: A wildlife survey in Arunachal Pradesh has provided the first photographic evidence of the elusive Pallas’s cat in the state, reaffirming the eastern Himalayas’ status as a global biodiversity hotspot.The WWF-India survey, conducted with state forest department, also recorded snow leopard, common leopard, clouded leopard and marbled cat above 4,200 metres, underlining the…
A 56-year-old govt school headmaster in Tamil Nadu‘s Tirupattur district was suspended and arrested on charges of sexually assaulting a class 5 student, just a fortnight after his suspension on similar charges was revoked. Police said K Bharath Ambedkar reached school in an inebriated condition. He asked the girl to sit on his lap and…
Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann on Monday announced a set of relief measures for people affected by recent floods, including compensation for farmers, financial aid for families who lost members, and deferment of loans. According to the announcement, farmers will receive Rs 20,000 per acre in compensation, to be transferred directly to them. Families of…
NEW DELHI: Two soldiers lost their lives and another was left injured after an encounter broke out with terrorists in the Kulgam district of southern Kashmir, on Monday.The gunfight took place in the Guddar forest during a joint search operation by the Indian Army, Jammu and Kashmir Police and the CRPF. The operation, codenamed ‘Operation…
Over a dozen people died in Kathmandu after police clashed with youths opposing a ban on social media platforms. Meanwhile back in India, the Supreme Court allowed Aadhaar as identity proof for Bihar’s voter list revision, clarifying that it cannot prove citizenship.Here are top 5 stories that made headlines today:Nepal youth protest against social media…
