Category: Events

TOI Correspondent from London: A British Sikh man who founded the UK’s first memorial to Sikhs who served during World War I has received an OBE from the Princess Royal at St James’s Palace for services to the commemoration of Commonwealth soldiers who served Great Britain.Capt. Jay (Jagjeet) Singh-Sohal, who founded the WW1 Sikh Memorial...

SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir high court has given the Union Territory administration and the Centre three months to respond to petitions challenging a ban on 25 Kashmir-related books, an official in the additional advocate-general’s (AG) office said.The ban was clamped by the home department under lieutenant-governor (LG) Manoj Sinha on Aug 5 this year on...

AHMEDABAD: Mike Andrews, the aviation lawyer with the US-based Beasley Allen Law Firm, which now represents the kin of more than 130 people who died on board the ill-fated AI 171 Ahmedabad-London flight, told TOI on Monday that the possible technical glitch in the AI 171 airplane crash in June in Ahmedabad must be investigated...

The European Union (EU) imposed a landmark €120 million ($140 million) fine on Elon Musk’s social media platform, X, formerly called Twitter, last week. The European Commission fined X for breaching Europe’s digital transparency rules. The first of its kind penalty under the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA) has sparked a fierce diplomatic confrontation between...

Candace Owens faces fresh heat after Mark Driscoll labels her a sorceress and queen bee online as backlash grows (Image via Getty) Mark Driscoll returned to headlines after a sharp public clash with conservative commentator Candace Owens. On Sunday, December 7, Driscoll posted a message on X and directly tagged Candace Owens. In the post,...

Omarion Hampton has remained missing from the field for two months.(Image via Getty Images) Omarion Hampton, the Los Angeles Chargers’ star player, suffered a brutal ankle injury in Week 5 and has not been able to return full fledged to the field, even though he has made appearances in a few practice sessions.As the Los...

SRINAGAR: A 29-year-old Chinese national accused of violating visa rules by travelling to J&K and Ladakh without permission was questioned for a second day on Monday, before being released in the evening. Meanwhile, fresh police searches revealed more foreign nationals staying in Kashmir Valley’s hotels, homestays and houseboats that had failed to report their stay...

NEW DELHI: Amid reports of widespread non-compliance of safety norms in sleeper coach buses, road transport minister Nitin Gadkari on Monday directed officials to carry out checking of all such buses by govt-approved testing agencies — ARAI, CIRT and iCAT — and ensure compliance.He was chairing a review meeting on the recent bus fires in...

JAMMU: Dense smoke continues to billow up along the Line of Control (LoC) in the Bhimber Gali-Balakote areas of Rajouri and Poonch districts in Jammu & Kashmir after a massive forest fire broke out on Sunday, which is spreading across large swathes in the border districts.Officials said the fire started on the zero line ahead...

A tsunami warning is displayed on a television in Yokohama, near Tokyo (AP photo) A strong 7.6-magnitude earthquake struck off northern Japan late Monday, triggering a tsunami of up to 70 centimeters along the Pacific coast and prompting warnings of potentially higher surges. Several people were injured, and tens of thousands were advised to evacuate...