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SHIMLA: Heavy snowfall across several districts of Himachal Pradesh continued to severely disrupt daily life in the hill state on Sunday, affecting transport, communication, power, water supply and leaving people stranded in cars in freezing temperatures. Lahaul and Spiti district has been cut-off from the rest of the state due to blocked roads. As of...

ANI file photo NEW DELHI: India joined China, Pakistan and four other countries in voting against a UN Human Rights Council resolution that strongly deplored the crackdown on protests in Iran and extended the mandate of a fact-finding mission on the country by two years, while authorising it to investigate last month’s “repression.“The 47-member body...

Image: IANS, ANI NEW DELHI: Stressing that the biggest threat to the independence of the judiciary “is from within”, Supreme Court judge Ujjal Bhuyan expressed on Saturday his dissent and disappointment with the collegium’s decision to transfer Justice Atul Sreedharan from MP high court to Allahabad HC on the Centre’s suggestion, and said it “reveals...

AP file photo US president Donald Trump on Saturday praised “brave” British soldiers as warriors, a day after British Prime Minister Keir Starmer described his earlier remarks about NATO troops in Afghanistan as “insulting and appalling.”“The GREAT and very BRAVE soldiers of the United Kingdom will always be with the United States of America! In...

In a tragic turn of events, 37-year-old Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a US citizen, was shot dead by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis. Officials confirmed that during a large immigration enforcement operation, Pretti brandished a weapon and resisted arrest, prompting a Border Patrol agent to open fire in self-defense. A 37-year-old Minneapolis man shot and killed...

Image via Getty Travis Kelce is used to attention on the field, on his podcast, and now very much on Instagram. But this time, the noise isn’t about football or Taylor Swift sightings. Instead, fans have taken over his comment section with calls for accountability and one viral comment asking him to “get Justin on...

FARIDABAD: Four-year-old Vanshika Jaiswal, who was allegedly beaten to death by her father for getting a maths writing assignment wrong, was no stranger to thrashing, according to neighbours in Jharsentli.They alleged that her father Krishna Jaiswal, a private firm employee, would slap and scold her for even trivial issues whenever he came home drunk. The...

Image: IANS PANAJI: A 37-year-old Russian national, Alexei Leonov, arrested for the double murder of two Russian women, claimed to have allegedly killed 19 Russian women in Goa, Delhi and Uttarakhand. Goa inspector general of police (IGP) K R Chaurasia said that Goa police verified the claims and, except in one case where he was...

Image: IANS DHAKA: With Bangladesh Awami League not participating this time, a total of 80 candidates from religious and ethnic minority communities are contesting Bangladesh’s national parliamentary election scheduled for Feb 12. Of these candidates, 12 are running as independents and 10 are women, according to officials of Election Commission and available data. A total...

Vikram Bhatt MUMBAI: Filmmaker-director Vikram Bhatt, who was arrested by Rajasthan Police last month in an alleged Rs 30 crore cheating case, has landed in fresh legal trouble after Mumbai Police registered another case of fraud against him. A new FIR has been filed accusing Bhatt and his daughter, Krishna Bhatt, of cheating a Pune-based...