Category: Events

NEW DELHI: Kerala high court on Tuesday pulled up the state government for accessing the private contact details of nearly five lakh government employees and sought an immediate explanation.This comes after a plea was filed in the court which alleged that CMO bypassed privacy laws to send unsolicited, personalised WhatsApp messages featuring the chief minister’s...

IBM shares suffered their worst single-day drop in over 25 years on Monday, February 23 after AI startup Anthropic announced that its Claude Code tool can automate the modernisation of COBOL—the decades-old programming language that sits at the heart of IBM’s mainframe business. The stock fell 13.2% to close at $223.35, wiping roughly $40 billion...

After US Supreme Court’s blow to President Donald Trump’s tariff playbook last week, America is now gearing up for a new round of national security investigations that could open the gate for new duties. According to a person familiar with internal discussions cited by Bloomberg, the administration is planning probes into how imports affect several...

NEW DELHI: A Pawan Hans helicopter carrying seven people, including two pilots, crashed into the sea near Mayabunder in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands on Tuesday morning.The helicopter had taken off from Sri Vijaya Puram around 8.45 am and went down in the sea near Mayabunder at about 9.30 am. “A preliminary inquiry revealed that...

Mexico’s powerful druglord killed in a major op Mexico has spent the last 24 hours in a state of high tension after security forces killed Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, better known as “El Mencho”, a powerful druglord and the long-time head of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG).While authorities described the military operation as a decisive...

NEW DELHI: Centre is likely to approve the proposal to change the name of Kerala to Keralam in a cabinet meet scheduled on Tuesday.Union ministers have been asked to reach early as there may a photo session before cabinet meet. Interestingly, this will the first cabinet meeting at the Seva Teerth — the new PMO...

NEW DELHI: Leader of opposition in Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday hailed “Babbar Sher comrades” of the Indian Youth Congress (IYC) detained for protesting during the AI Summit at Bharat Mandapam. He praised the youth wing for fearlessly raising their voices, saying “peaceful protest is our right.“His remarks came after Delhi Police arrested IYC...

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court of India has permitted the Calcutta High Court to deploy additional judicial officers, including from Jharkhand and Odisha, to expedite scrutiny of voter inclusion claims in West Bengal’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.The court took note of the Calcutta HC Chief Justice’s assessment that despite assigning 294 serving...

A 19-year-old youth allegedly shot dead his 49-year-old father, a pathology lab owner, at their Aashiana residence in the early hours of February 20, dismembered the body and attempted to dispose of the remains in parts, police said on Monday. LUCKNOW: A teenager allegedly shot dead his 49-year-old father, a pathology lab owner, at their...

Zimbabwe players (Pic credit: Zimbabwe Cricket) NEW DELHI: Zimbabwe head coach Justin Sammons expects an aggressive backlash from India when the two sides meet in a crucial Super Eight clash of the T20 World Cup in Chennai on Thursday, warning that his players must be ready for a similar onslaught that dismantled them on Monday.Go...