NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee claimed that her flight was held for half-an-hour because of the “non-cooperation from central agencies” which hampered her travel plans during the poll season. Adding that the CMs should get “some priority”, she alleged that the BJP leaders get to leave.“Today I was held up in the…
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer admitted Monday that he made the wrong judgment in appointing Peter Mandelson as the UK ambassador to Washington, saying he would not have gone ahead if he had known Mandelson had failed security checks.Speaking in the House of Commons, Starmer said the facts about Mandelson’s vetting “could and should have…
NEW DELHI: With a fresh round of trade negotiations between India and the US beginning in Washington, the Coalition for a GM-Free India — a network of farmers and civil society organisations — on Monday wrote to the central govt, urging it not to allow imports of genetically modified (GM) cotton seed oil, animal feed…
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…