TOI correspondent from Washington: Just hours after US President Donald Trump assured Americans that Iran “really wants to make a deal” and urged “negatively chirping” critics to “sit back and relax (because) it will all work out well in the end,” the Middle East moved in the opposite direction.The three-month-old conflict lurched back toward open…
NEW DELHI: Four years after a dramatic split turned the Shiv Sena into two rival camps locked in a bitter political battle, leaders from both sides now appear to be finding common ground on one issue: the BJP.Interestingly, the very factor that contributed to the Sena’s split, its relationship with the BJP, is now emerging…
A Pennsylvania man turned a marital row into a scene of destruction after threatening to demolish his family home and then carrying out the threat with an excavator while his wife and daughters were still inside.48-year-old Eric Pierwsza tore into the rear section of his Butler County home following an argument with his wife after…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday raised concerns over the activities of armed groups operating near the India-Myanmar border and the impact of Myanmar’s internal conflict on Indian border communities during talks with Myanmar President Min Aung Hlaing in New Delhi.Speaking at a special briefing after the high-level bilateral meeting, foreign secretary Vikram…
Rabi Lamichhane, chief of Nepal’s ruling Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP), arrived in New Delhi on Monday for talks with senior BJP leaders even as street protests erupted in Kathmandu and opposition parties disrupted Parliament over PM Balendra ‘Balen’ Shah’s remark that Nepal had “also encroached on India’s land”. Protesters gathered near Parliament and key junctions…
Vinita Gupta, credited to be the first Indian-origin woman to take a company public, says India now has many opportunities. Vinita Gupta, who is credited as being the first woman of Indian origin to have taken her company public in the US, said India is now different than her time. At her time, returning to…
NEW DELHI: Karnataka Congress leader DK Shivakumar has been long known for his firefighting skills. The Congress turned to him everytime things fell apart. But now, as he prepares to take up the top job in Karnataka, the test will not just be of his firefighting skills (in his own backyard) but also of his…
Former first lady Jill Biden has revealed that she supported former President Joe Biden’s decision to pardon their son Hunter Biden.She said that the legal process against him had become unfair and difficult after Donald Trump’s election victory.In an interview with CBS News, Jill said Hunter was being unfairly targeted and defended the controversial pardon…
NEW DELHI: Newly sworn-in West Bengal cabinet minister Swapan Dasgupta on Monday launched a sharp attack on the Trinamool Congress (TMC), alleging that the party had left the state in a “completely devastated” condition. He said the immediate priority of the newly formed BJP-led government was to remove the “kachhra” (garbage) left behind by the…
Graham Platner’s wife says she feels betrayed by the person who exposed her husband’s sexting scandal. Maine Democratic Senate hopeful Graham Platner broke his silence over the sexting scandal and slammed the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times for running stories on gossip. The gossip, however, was allegedly provided by her wife Amy…