KP Sharma Oli (ANI image) Former Nepal Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli and ex-home minister Ramesh Lekhak were arrested on Saturday in connection with a culpable homicide case linked to the alleged suppression of the September Gen Z protests, police officials said.Oli was taken into custody from his residence in Gundu, Bhaktapur, while Lekhak was…
KOLKATA: West Bengal’s second supplementary voters’ list was published around 11pm Friday, albeit with little clarity on how many among the 12 lakh names on it had cleared judicial scrutiny.As was the case when Election Commission released the first supplementary rolls close to midnight last Monday, there were more questions than CEO Manoj Agarwal had…
Tech mogul Bill Gates said he never went to Jeffrey Epstein’s island, where some of the late financier’s sex crimes occurred. But over a four-year span, Epstein made a concerted effort to lure him and his family members to the Caribbean destination, emails show.The correspondence reflects an enduring friendship between Epstein and Gates’ key science…
NEW DELHI: Pilots flying VVIPs, including Z-plus category SPG protectees, Lok Sabha speaker, Rajya Sabha deputy chairperson, cabinet ministers, Chief Justice of India, CMs and governors have now been empowered to put their foot down and refuse to fly if it is not safe to do so for any reason.Following the death of Maharashtra deputy…
This comet is classified as a ‘sun-grazing’ comet and will pass within approximately 850,000 miles of the Sun at perihelion. Comets are made up of ice and dirt and, therefore, are referred to as dirty snowballs. Upon reaching perihelion, the addition of solar energy to the comet will cause the comet to sublimate into gas…
NEW DELHI: Enforcement Directorate has filed a prosecution complaint (chargesheet) before a special court here against Punit Garg, a close associate of Anil Ambani, in a money laundering probe against Reliance Communications (RCom).RCom, Ambani, his close associates and some family members are under investigation in the purchase and sale of an apartment worth over Rs…
Michele Lyn Hundley Smith was spotted tearfully embracing her daughter, Amanda, who went missing in North Carolina 24 years ago./ Image: NY Post More than two decades after she disappeared without a trace, Michele Lyn Hundley Smith has now been found alive, and has come face to face with her family for the first time….
NEW DELHI: Election Commission Friday sought a report from the West Bengal chief electoral officer on the recent statement by chief minister Mamata Banerjee at a public meeting in Naxalbari, Darjeeling, allegedly instigating local women to be at polling booths and use household kitchen items to deal with “necessary situations”.With her statement seen as a…
In Switzerland, construction does not begin with concrete or cranes, but with something far more unusual. Empty frameworks trace the future. Weeks before a building is approved, tall poles rise from the ground, connected by thin lines that map out walls, roofs, and balconies in mid-air. Known as Bauprofile, these full-scale outlines transform architectural drawings…
NEW DELHI: A month ago, Pandit Ramkishan sat on a dharna in Rajasthan, demanding better quality water for his home district, Bharatpur. One of India’s oldest former MPs (he was in Parliament in 1977), he told TOI on Friday, a day before he turned 100, that he will always remain a socialist. “That’s what I…