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The Panama-flagged vessel was also struck on Sunday (Representative image: AP). The US military on Monday rejected a claim by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards that an oil tanker collided with a naval mine in the Strait of Hormuz.According to US Central Command (CENTCOM), which oversees American military operations in the Middle East, the Panama-flagged vessel was...

NEW DELHI: An interesting situation may be unfolding in Nandigram and Rejinagar, with both factions of TMC, one headed by Mamata Banerjee and the other by Ritabrata Banerjee, naming their own candidates for the bypolls while claiming to be the “real” party entitled to use its reserved symbol.EC, which heard the two factions Saturday, asked...

Mamata Banerjee NEW DELHI: An attempt by the Mamata Banerjee faction of TMC to hammer out an alliance with Congress for upcoming bypolls in Bengal did not materialise after the latter insisted on going it alone, reports Subodh Ghildiyal.Trinamool’s decision to announce candidates in Nandigram and Rejinagar Monday came well after Congress had named its...

The 18th Brics Summit was held at New Delhi’s Bharat Mandapam from Sept 13-14 NEWDELHI: The presence of chief ministers from BJP-governed states at the dinner for Brics leaders hosted by govt made it look like an entirely governing alliance affair, but official sources said that CMs hailing from opposition parties were also invited but...

Salem was extradited from Portugal on November 11, 2005, after a prolonged legal battle. NEW DELHI: Supreme Court has ruled that if a person is convicted in two cases and sentenced separately, the period of imprisonment undergone as an undertrial can be offset against only one of the sentences and not both even when the...

Nepal floods NEW DELHI: Govt has agreed to export 654MW of electricity daily to flood-ravaged Nepal for 18 hours a day till Dec 31. The ministry of power Monday said the recent floods caused significant damage to hydropower infrastructure in Nepal, reducing its domestic power generation capacity and creating an additional requirement for electricity, reports...

At 84, ‘Nan Barb’ drives more than 2,000km through remote Western Australia each month delivering donated clothes (Image Credit: ABC South West WA/ Jon Daly) For 84-year-old Barbara Carroll, long-distance driving has become part of a monthly mission to help people living in some of Western Australia’s most remote communities. Known affectionately as “Nan Barb,”...

Bhupesh Baghel NEW DELHI: Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Monday said it has arrested former Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel’s former OSD Chetan Borghariya, who is presently additional collector of Balrampur-Ramanujganj, in the case of illegal appointments of DSPs and collectors through exam paper leaks.ED, which had earlier arrested former state public service commission (PSC) chief Taman...

NEW DELHI: Leading lawyers Harish Salve and Mahesh Jethmalani Monday advocated a reset in the judiciary, as happened after the Emergency, and said the complaint redressal mechanism needs to be reformed for the public to continue reposing faith in the institution.Referring to the unprecedented discovery of burning cash at Justice Yashwant Varma’s residence in March...

LUCKNOW: Responding to questions being raised in social media over his suitability to oversee the work of Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra, newly appointed CEO and retired Air Marshal Jeetendra Mishra asserted that temple administration has long been part of his responsibilities and dismissed criticism of his background.Mishra said that during his tenure as Air...