Indian captain of a sanctioned Russian oil tanker was arrested in the UK LONDON/DEHRADUN: The Indian captain of a sanctioned Russian shadow fleet oil tanker intercepted by British armed forces while crossing the English Channel en route from Russia to India has been arrested in the UK and appeared in court charged with breaching sanctions,…
NEW DELHI: The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), which guards Delhi Metro stations across the capital, has in the past six months recovered and returned lost currency and bank documents worth Rs 22.8 lakh, 80 gms of loose gold and other gold and silver ornaments, 32 laptops, 68 mobile phones and 9 valuable personal watches.Sharing…
Italian painter Sandro Botticelli’s ‘Madonna and Child’ flanked by Hariti—the former ogress-turned-Buddhist-goddess of children and fertility—on the left, and Mater Matuta, the ancient Roman goddess of dawn and childbirth, on the right. The works will be part of an exhibition at Delhi’s Humayun’s Tomb Museum Before Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael, there was Botticelli. The…
I am an Indian, and everyone says I lack civic sense.Some Westerners can overturn cars, burn streets, and vandalise a city after a championship game. But I dance at an airport excited about my first foreign trip, and suddenly I am the face of poor civic sense.I am an Indian, and everyone says I steal…
A local court has framed charges against former Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) scientist Pradeep Kurulkar in an alleged espionage case, paving the way for the commencement of trial from next month.The court on Thursday framed charges against Kurulkar under Sections 3 and 5 of the Official Secrets Act (OSA), which deal with penalties…
Abhishek Banerjee meeting Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla NEW DELHI: Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Abhishek Banerjee Friday met Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla to submit a disqualification petitions against party MPs who have sought to merge with the lesser-known Nationalist Citizens Party of India (NCPI).Banerjee, who is former West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s nephew,…
MK Stalin’s DMK and Rahul Gandhi’s Congress had an acrimonious split after Tamil Nadu assembly polls NEW DELHI: Rahul Gandhi on Friday thanked MK Stalin and Kanimozhi for their birthday wishes, with their social media exchange coming days after Congress and the DMK ended their alliance following the Tamil Nadu assembly election results.Also Read |…
NEW DELHI: The government on Friday highlighted what it described as a major milestone in India’s fight against Left-Wing Extremism (LWE), stating that the country became effectively free from Naxalism on March 31, 2026 after decades of insurgency-related violence.The outcome, the government claimed, was the result of sustained efforts over the past 12 years that…
File photo: PM Modi with Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim India’s growing soft-power presence and cultural diplomacy is witnessing a new vigour in Malaysia, one of India’s key economic partners and a historically connected Asean nation in the region.The centuries-old civilizational bond between the two countries, anchored by 2.9 million strong Indian origin diaspora, has…
Karnataka BJP chief BY Vijayendra and LoP R Ashoka NEW DELHI: An “upset” BJP leadership has summoned the party’s top Karnataka leaders to Delhi amid allegations of cross-voting by its MLAs in the state legislative council elections, in which the ruling Congress secured five of the seven seats.Also Read | Cracks in alliance: BJP-JD(S) hunt…
