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NEW DELHI: What began as a routine investigation into a case of Arms Act violation quickly snowballed into a major cross-border counter-espionage operation, with Ghaziabad Police stumbling upon a suspicious WhatsApp group named ‘Lawrence Bishnoi 007′.Infiltrating this digital circle, the cops found out that the platform was being used as a front for deeper and...

BHUBANESWAR/CUTTACK: An electrical fire originating at a trauma unit of SCB Medical College and Hospital in Odisha’s Cuttack killed 12 patients on Monday. Hospital source said the blaze followed a small fire from an electrical spark in the first-floor trauma ICU that had been quickly attended to and doused. Till late Monday, there was no...

NEW DELHI: The cost of crude for Indian refiners has soared 93% since the conflict in the Gulf broke out on Feb 28 and hit $136.56 a barrel on Friday, eroding profits for domestic players ranging from IndianOil, HPCL and BPCL to Reliance Industries. Several countries, including the US, let retail prices rise in line...

Rajya Sabha elections Monday accentuated the opposition’s inability to hold its ranks, with absentee legislators costing the Grand Alliance a seat in Bihar, cross-voting delivering a bonus seat to BJP in Odisha and a dispute over ballot secrecy leaving the poll outcome in Haryana hanging.In Bihar, Mahagathbandhan’s lone candidate, RJD’s Amarendra Dhari Singh, lost after...

Actor Rajpal Yadav recently opened up about a scene in Bhooth Bangla where he slaps Akshay Kumar, a moment that reminded fans of the iconic scene in Bhool Bhulaiyaa where Akshay’s character slapped his popular character Chhota Pandit. When asked if the moment could be seen as a playful form of revenge, Rajpal reacted with...

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...