Spread the love Gunfire was heard near Venezuela’s Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas on Monday night, just days after former president Nicolás Maduro was captured and brought to the United States. CNN obtained videos showed what appeared to be lights from drones and anti-aircraft fire across the night sky.On Monday morning, Maduro, handcuffed and flanked by armed federal agents, stepped...
SC: Fearless judges bedrock of judiciary, can’t be penalised for error of judgment
Spread the love NEW DELHI: Observing that a fearless judge is the bedrock of an independent judiciary, Supreme Court on Monday held that disciplinary proceedings can’t be initiated against a judge for an error of judgment on their part. It also expressed concern over frivolous complaints being filed against members of judiciary, which lead to trial court judges treading with...
$20,000 instead of Rs 20K: Bank clerk’s typo leaves Kerala Univ poorer by Rs 16 lakh
Spread the love THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala University’s Centre for Latin American Studies is paying the price for what could be the costliest ‘typo’ in its financial history — a careless bank clerk swapping ‘ ₹’ with ‘$’ while transferring funds to a Brazilbased journalist as remuneration for four online lectures he delivered in 2023.The difference between the intended fee of Rs...
‘Dhurandhar’ box office collection day 32: Ranveer Singh starrer sees first big drop
Spread the love After an extraordinary five-week run at the Indian box office, ‘Dhurandhar’, starring Ranveer Singh and Akshaye Khanna, has recorded its first significant slowdown in collections. The Aditya Dhar-directed spy thriller, which had consistently delivered double-digit daily figures, finally slipped into single digits on its fifth Monday. ‘Dhurandhar’ box office collection Day 32 As per early estimates reported...
‘Ikkis’ box office collection day 5: Agastya Nanda starrer struggles on first Monday
Spread the love In its fifth day of release, Agastya Nanda’s inaugural film ‘Ikkis’, a stirring biopic about Arun Khetarpal, has encountered a stark decline at the box office, raking in only Rs 1.35 crore. Being the only major release has not shielded it from disappointing results, with an overall collection of THIS amount. Agastya Nanda‘s ‘Ikkis’ became the first...
Andhra Pradesh attempting to steal Godavari water: Telangana
Spread the love NEW DELHI: Sparks flew in SC as Telangana opposed Andhra Pradesh’s Polavaram-Nallamala Sagar Project (PNSP) with A Revanth Reddy-led govt accusing AP of attempting to misappropriate its share of Godavari water and N Chandrababu Naidu-led govt charging Telangana of attempting to stall farmer-friendly projects even after taking erstwhile capital city Hyderabad.Telangana through senior advocate A M Singhvi...
Hydrogen ‘tests’ basic physics more precisely after theory update
Spread the love The hydrogen molecule H2 is the simplest stable molecule, with two protons and two electrons bound together. Scientists have studied it for more than a century because it’s small enough that theory can try to predict its behaviour from basic physics yet it’s rich enough to include many features found in larger molecules. This said, after all this...
Delhi man walks into police station, confesses to killing mother, 2 siblings
Spread the love NEW DELHI: A 25-year-old man walked into Laxmi Nagar Police Station on Monday and confessed to killing his mother, sister and teenage brother.When police reached his home, they found the bodies of his mother, Kavita (46), and two siblings – Meghna (24), a lab staffer, and Mukul (14), a Class 7 student. As the family was religious,...
‘Culprit is not her ex-boyfriend’: Hyd woman working in US murdered; suspect flees to India
Spread the love HYDERABAD: A 27-year-old woman from Hyderabad, Nikitha Godishala, employed in Columbia, in the US state of Maryland, was found murdered in the apartment of an Indian man who is believed to have fled to India. Howard County police confirmed that the man, Arjun Sharma (26), is wanted on first- and second-degree murder charges.Howard County police discovered Nikitha’s...
‘Silent spectator for decades’: SC raps Uttarakhand over forest encroachment
Spread the love NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Monday slammed the Uttarakhand govt for being a silent spectator for two decades to rampant encroachment of forest land in Rishikesh, which was allotted in 1950 to Gandhian Mira Behn by the then UP govt, and said it smacked of nexus between the executive and squatters. The court also sought details of...
