Spread the love       NEW DELHI: Drawing lessons from the disruption in energy supplies because of the West Asia conflict, govt has asked oil marketing companies to work on creating a 30-day strategic reserve of LPG.Petroleum ministry joint secretary Sujata Sharma said the reserve would be over and above the 45-day rolling stock maintained by oil retailers to meet the demand...

Spread the love       Driver killed after wall crashes on auto in Bengaluru BENGALURU: Heavy rain accompanied by strong winds on Friday evening turned fatal for an autorickshaw driver after a compound wall of a private club collapsed on his vehicle in west Bengaluru. According to the preliminary investigation by Vijayanagar police, Shivaboraiah, a resident of Gangondanahalli, had parked his autorickshaw...

Spread the love       If all goes according to plan, Shivakumar will replace Siddaramaiah, marking Karnataka’s first leadership handover in 17 years. BENGALURU: The Congress Legislature Party (CLP) will meet in Bengaluru Saturday evening to formally elect deputy chief minister DK Shivakumar as its new leader after governor Thaawar Chand Gehlot formally accepted chief minister Siddaramaiah’s resignation. If all goes according...

Spread the love       DK Shivakumar BENGALURU: With the leadership tussle settled and D K Shivakumar expected to assume office as the new CM, the Congress high command has now turned its attention to the more challenging task of cabinet formation and selecting a new Congress president amid growing pressure from senior leaders and caste groups demanding representation.The prospect of appointing...

Spread the love       NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Friday flagged a “worrying trend” of women misusing laws on dowry harassment, domestic violence and Pocso by filing frivolous and vexatious complaint against husband and in-laws. The court said genuine cases were getting overshadowed and obscured by the “overwhelming” number of false cases filed by spouses as an “arm-twisting” method to reach...

Spread the love       Nearly two years after a foiled ISIS-linked terror plot nearly turned a Taylor Swift concert into a massacre, justice has finally arrived. An Austrian court sentenced 21-year-old Beran A. to 15 years in prison on Thursday for planning to attack Swift’s Eras Tour shows in Vienna, and the verdict lands at a particularly charged moment, with Swift’s...

Spread the love       A US federal judge on Friday ordered the removal of President Donald Trump‘s name from the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and blocked plans to temporarily close the venue for a yearslong renovation, ruling that the institution’s board exceeded its legal authority on both counts.US District Judge Christopher Cooper directed officials to remove within 14 days...

Spread the love       FILE (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File) Hundreds of University of California faculty members have signed an open letter urging the UC regents and faculty leaders to restore standardized testing requirements for Math and Science applicants. The letter cites an alarming drop in Math skills since the tests were abandoned. The UC system stopped accepting SAT and ACT scores...

Spread the love       Novak Djokovic of Serbia (AP Photo/Emma Da Silva) French Open 2026 delivered another massive shock as Novak Djokovic was knocked out in dramatic fashion in Paris. Teenager Joao Fonseca stunned Djokovic in a marathon five-set battle on Friday. Earlier on Thursday, Sinner’s title hopes collapsed after he struggled physically in extreme heat conditions.Brazil’s 19-year-old sensation Fonseca produced...

Spread the love       A 17-year-old boy was stabbed by his friend in Khoda Colony over an argument on Thursday evening GHAZIABAD: A 17-year-old boy was stabbed by his friend in Khoda Colony over an argument on Thursday evening. The teenager, Surya Pratap, succumbed to injuries on Friday afternoon at the hospital.The exact motive behind the “multiple stabbing” will be clear...