Category: Events

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to interfere with the Jharkhand high court’s order granting bail to former Bihar chief minister Lalu Yadav and other convicts in the fodder scam case.The top court also asked the high court to expedite the hearing of the pending appeals, preferably within six months.A bench pf Justices...

During the monsoon season in Hyderabad, there is a notable spike in the need for water tankers due to below-average rainfall and the effects of El Nino HYDERABAD: In a rare and worrying trend, Hyderabad is witnessing a higher demand for water tankers during the monsoon than in the peak summer months, underlining the impact...

When drones first went on the offensive over the skies of Ukraine, they were thought of as a poor nation’s weapon against a much larger and powerful enemy. The iconography was that of a feeble David taking on Goliath, a cheap shoulder fired rocket zip-tied to an off the shelf drone, standing in for a...

NEW DELHI: Uttar Pradesh police on Monday registered a case against a American national -named Jordan Brown- after he was apprehended for entering Nepal without proper authorisation or valid documents, officials told news agency ANI.According to officials, a case has been registered against him at the Sonauli Police Station under Sections 21/23 of the Immigration...

JAMMU: A special NIA court has issued a non-bailable warrant against Hafiz Saeed, the Pakistan-based chief of the banned terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), in connection with the agency’s ongoing investigation into the Pahalgam terror attack, officials said.The Special Judge of the NIA Court issued the order on July 8, two days after the National Investigation...

Goldman Sachs has told its employees to stay away from prediction markets, unless the bet in question involves a football match or a reality show finale. The Wall Street bank recently updated its personal trading policy to prohibit employees from trading event contracts tied to specific companies, election outcomes, or the performance of any financial...

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said American forces could soon attack Pickaxe Mountain in Iran amid a fresh wave of strikes in the country.In an interview on The Hugh Hewitt Show, Trump said the US is closely monitoring activities at the heavily fortified site, which hosts two deeply buried tunnel complexes. He, however, rejected...

GUMLA: Panchayat members in Jharkhand’s Gumla district allegedly tried to hush up the rape of a 3-year-old girl after accepting Rs 20,000 from the teenage suspect’s family as “spot penalty” and using the cash to organise a feast.The suspect allegedly raped the toddler on July 11 after offering to look after her while her mother...

Engineers have reportedly developed a new solar panel design inspired by the hexagonal honeycomb built by bees, offering a potential solution to one of the technology’s biggest limitations. Conventional solar panels lose a significant amount of energy when sunlight strikes them at an angle, as much of the light is reflected away instead of being...

US President Donald Trump has formally notified congress that military action against Iran resumed on July 7, a move that his administration says begins a new 60-day period during which US forces can continue operations without fresh congressional authorisation under the War Powers Resolution.In a letter dated July 10 and obtained by Reuters, Trump informed...