NEW DELHI: Batting for greater promotion of Sanskrit and its use even in quantum computing, BJP veteran Murli Manohar Joshi on Monday said India is not a ‘vishwaguru’ (global teacher) anymore and this term should not be used.Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of an event here, Joshi also made a strong pitch for making…
NEW DELHI: An Enforcement Directorate (ED) probe into political consultancy firm I-PAC has snowballed into a major political flashpoint in poll-bound West Bengal, placing it at the centre of a fierce battle between Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress and the BJP-led Centre. What began as a money-laundering investigation has now expanded into a wider confrontation involving…
Active-duty US soldier’s El Salvadoran wife detained by ICE, could be deported to Mexico. Sergeant First Class Jose Serrano, an active-duty US Army sergeant who served the military for 27 years, including several in Afghanistan, said the ICE is out of control after his wife Deisy Rivera Ortega, an El Salvadorian by birth, was detained…
CEC Gyanesh Kumar; TMC MP Derek O’Brien NEW DELHI: Opposition parties will bring a fresh motion to impeach Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar, Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP and spokesperson Derek O’Brien said on Monday.“19 political parties and around 300 MPs had earlier moved an impeachment notice against the CEC. In the coming days, a…
A debate over a possible US military draft started after tech giant Palantir Technologies publicly backed the idea of universal national service. It argued that all citizens should share the burden of war. The company shared 22 extensive points explaining why software companies are equally responsible for defence. In a post on X, the company…
Ex-Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal NEW DELHI: The Delhi high court’s Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma on Monday refused to recuse herself from hearing the matter involving former chief minister Arvind Kejriwal in the liquor policy case, observing that “impartiality is a presumption in favour of a judge” and that it’s not a “legal requirement but an…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday condemned in the “strongest terms” an incident involving an IDF soldier allegedly striking a statue of Jesus Christ in southern Lebanon.In a post on X, Netanyahu said, “Yesterday, like the overwhelming majority of Israelis, I was stunned and saddened to learn that an IDF soldier damaged a Catholic…
Horus Security Consultancy was paid £443,943 by twelve UK universities to spy on pro-Palestine Students/Image: BBC Twelve UK universities paid over £440,000 to a private firm run by former military intelligence officials to spy on student protesters and academics, including those supporting Palestine, a joint investigation by Al Jazeera English and Liberty Investigates has revealed.The…
Humayun Kabir “Rajneeti nie kichu bolbo na”, we will not speak about politics. That is the repeated line from workers and staff at the Babri Masjid site in Beldanga, Murshidabad. Their trepidation is not hard to understand. The leaked tape controversy around former TMC MLA Humayun Kabir has already disrupted the trajectory of his newly…
Indian-origin Texas Democrat Pooja Sethi said she also wants her hate-free America back after Sara Gonzales’s divisive social media post. Texas YouTuber and journalist Sara Gonzales who recently made headlines after claiming to have busted H-1B abuse in her state dropped a controversial social media post, triggering a massive backlash. Gonzales said she took her…