Category: Events

NEW DELHI: Amidst calls by the US for a multinational naval coalition to secure the Strait of Hormuz, India Monday backed its own direct engagement with Iran for safe passage of ships, with external affairs minister S Jaishankar saying these talks have yielded “some results”.The ministry of external affairs (MEA) said there had been no...

Representative Image Benchmark general partner Bill Gurley is scared of all the cash burning happening around by Artificial Intelligence (AI) companies. An early investor in Uber, Benchmark’s Gurley played a key role in the exit of the then-Uber CEO Travis Kalanick in 2017. Gurley said that Uber’s annual burn rate of $2 billion during his...

Bareilly: A family panchayat called to resolve a couple’s marital discord turned ugly in UP after Afzar Khan, in late 30s, allegedly first attacked his wife, Saima Khan, 30, with a knife in front of everyone present, including their children, aged 8 and 5, and then went on to repeatedly stab his mother-in-law, Asma, 54,...

NEW DELHI: Govt Monday agreed to Opposition’s demand for revocation of the suspension of its eight MPs, who had been barred from the House for remainder of Budget session for their alleged unruly conduct in LS, and the House is expected to formalise their return Tuesday. Official sources said a consensus was reached at an...

NEW DELHI/KOLKATA: A day after it substituted Bengal chief secretary and principal secretary (home) with its own choices, EC Monday replaced the DGP and Kolkata Police commissioner, among others. Hours after announcing the assembly poll schedule for Bengal along with those of three other states and a UT, the poll panel late Sunday night shunted...

JAMSHEPUR: A 41-year-old man died after choking on a rasgulla at a wedding in Jharkhand’s Jamshedpur.Doctors said the syrupy sweet blocked Lalit Singh’s airways, which disrupted oxygen supply and led to his death.Lalit had difficulties in breathing after the rasgulla got stuck in his throat during the wedding in Malianta village near Jamshedpur on Saturday....

JAMMU: A Jammu court on Monday extended till March 23 the police remand of Kamal Singh Jamwal, a 63-year-old arrested for attempting to shoot National Conference (NC) president Farooq Abdullah at a Jammu wedding last week.An SIT produced Jamwal in court and argued that his continued remand was necessary for sustained interrogation about his motives...

A 45-year-old mechanic was allegedly beaten to death by a group wielding a cricket bat and wooden logs in front of his children near Bade Makhan in Wilson Garden Sunday night BENGALURU: A 45-year-old mechanic was allegedly beaten to death by a group wielding a cricket bat and wooden logs in front of his children...

SRINAGAR: Thousands rallied Monday in Leh and Kargil on calls by Leh Apex Body (LAB) and Kargil Democratic Alliance (KDA) to press for statehood and Sixth Schedule status for the Union territory (UT) of Ladakh.The rallies came two days after the Centre revoked National Security Act (NSA) against climate activist and LAB member Sonam Wangchuk...

JAMMU: An Army jawan died of suspected cardiac arrest while on duty along the Line of Control (LoC) in J&K’s Poonch district on Sunday.The deceased soldier was identified as Naik Tilak Singh, who was posted in the forward Nangi Takri area in Krishna Ghati sector. He was found unconscious on duty along the LoC on...