US warns citizens traveling to Hong Kong that they have to give phone passwords to cops if they ask for it as Hong Kong has now made it mandatory. The US has informed its citizens traveling to Hong Kong that they now have to give their computer or mobile passwords if asked by the police…
NEW DELHI: A special Delhi court on Friday acquitted former Congress MP Vijay Darda, his son Devendra, ex-coal secretary H C Gupta and others in a coal block allocation case, ending over a decade of trial after finding the evidence “highly insufficient” to prove charges of cheating, conspiracy, or misconduct.The case stemmed from the allocation…
Several senior Catholic leaders in Spain have sharply criticised the euthanasia of 25-year-old Noelia Castillo, calling it a reflection of societal failure and raising concerns over the country’s right-to-die law.“We have all failed as a society,” Jose Mazuelos Perez, Bishop of the Canary Islands, was quoted as saying by EuroNews. ‘Culture of death’: Bishops question…
NEW DELHI: In a major push for defence acquisition, the Rajnath Singh-led Defence Acquisition Council on Friday granted approvals to various proposals worth around Rs 2.38 lakh crore, including for additional units of the Russian-made S-400 long-range surface-to-air missile system and 155mm Dhanush — howitzer — gun systems.“The decisions taken in the Defence Acquisition Council…
US president Donald Trump on Friday winkingly referred to the Strait of Hormuz, the critical oil shipping route and a key choke point in the Iran war, as “Strait of Hormuz.”While speaking at the Future Investment Initiative in Miami Trump said, “Iran has to ‘open up the Strait of Trump, I mean, Hormuz,’” Trump said…
MoD inks Rs 858 crore contracts for Tunguska Air Defence Missile System and Inspection (Depot Level) of P8I Aircraft NEW DELHI: The defence ministry on Friday signed a deal for the procurement of Tunguska air defence missile systems from Russia and another contract for maintenance of its P8I long-range maritime reconnaissance aircraft fleet with Boeing…
A Politico report claimed acting ICE chief Todd Lyons is under so much stress that he required hospitalization twice in seven months. Acting head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement Todd Lyons has not been keeping well because of all the pressure the administration puts on him, Politico reported citing sources who said Lyons had been…
NEW DELHI: Home minister Amit Shah on Friday said a group of foreigners — including one American citizen and six Ukrainians — arrested recently by NIA from Kolkata, Lucknow and Delhi did not pose any threat to India, but were trying to use the country as a transit point to Myanmar for terror training.“They were…
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…