J&K, 13/5: Two militants affiliated with the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) outfit, who had recently infiltrated into Kashmir, were killed in an encounter with security forces in north Kashmir’s Bandipora district on Friday. Police said the encounter erupted after security forces launched a cordon-and-search operation in Brar in the Aragam area of Bandipora following…
Mumbai, 3/5: An NCP youth wing leader on Friday approached the cyber cell of Mumbai police seeking action against the BJP for uploading an alleged edited version of Sharad Pawar’s recent speech in order to portray him as a “Hindu hater”. The @BJP4Maharashtra on Wednesday tweeted a short video of the speech and…
Washington DC, 13/5: Elon Musk said on Friday he was putting a temporary halt on his much-anticipated deal to buy Twitter, sending shares in the social media giant plunging. Musk, the world’s richest man and founder of automaker Tesla, had made the eradication of spam accounts and bots one of the centerpieces of his…
Washington DC, 13/5: Elon Musk on Friday put his $44-billion deal for Twitter Inc temporarily on hold, citing pending details in support of calculation that spam and fake accounts indeed represent less than 5 per cent of users. Shares of the social media company fell 17.7 per cent to $37.10 in premarket trading,…
New Delhi, 13/5: Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia has written to Union Home Minister Amit Shah urging him to stop the “destruction” ensuing in the national capital due to the anti-encroachment drive being carried out by the three BJP-ruled municipal bodies. In an online briefing, Sisodia claimed that the civic bodies have…
Colombo, 13/5:Sri Lanka’s new prime minister was struggling Friday to forge a unity government and forestall an imminent economic collapse after a senior opposition figure refused to helm the finance ministry. Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn in late on Thursday to navigate his country through the worst downturn in its history as an independent nation,…
New Delhi, 13/5: With headline inflation accelerating to an eight-year high of 7.79 per cent in April, ratings agency Crisil said price rise is getting broad-based, and the Reserve Bank is likely to respond with rate hikes of up to 1 percentage point in FY23. The research wing of the entity said it now…
Jaipur, 13/5: Selected Congress leaders headed to Udaipur in Rajasthan for a three-day ‘Chintan Shivir’ starting Friday to chalk out a revival plan for the party that has faced the worst electoral reverses in a decade and make it combat ready for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. The 430 leaders, invited to the ‘Nav…
Colombo, 13/5: Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka’s prime minister for the sixth time on Thursday, though the veteran politician has never completed a full term in office. The 73-year-old’s political career appeared to be drawing to a close before this week, when he agreed to helm a unity administration and help…
New Delhi, 12/5: The Supreme Court on Thursday expressed its displeasure over alleged hate speeches being made through religious programmes, saying they were spoiling the whole atmosphere and need to be sensitised to live peacefully. “What is the Dharma Sansad by the way,” a bench of Justices Ajay Rastogi and Vikram Nath asked senior…
