A Congress functionary was killed in Medak district’s Kulcharam Monday night. Assailants in two cars ambushed Marelli Anil, Medak Congress SC cell secretary. Anil, to escape, may have hit the accelerator, causing his vehicle to veer off the road and crash, police said. Locals, believing it to be an accident, helped shift Anil to a…
NEW DELHI: The health ministry on Tuesday clarified that its advisory to put ‘sugar and oil boards’ in offices did not carry any warning labels on food products sold by vendors and has not been discriminatory towards Indian snacks.The general advisory is a behavioural nudge to make people aware of hidden fats and excess sugar…
File photo: RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat (PTI) NEW DELHI: Close on the heels of RSS general secretary Dattatreya Hosabale’s call for a review on the continuation of “socialist” and “secular” in the Constitution’s Preamble – words added during the Emergency, Sangh-inspired weekly ‘Organiser’ dubbed the terms “ideological landmines” designed to “subvert dharmic values” and “serve…
File photo: Assam CM Hemanta Biswa Sarma (ANI) GUWAHATI: Assam has reclaimed from illegal Muslim settlers 160sq km of forest and other government-owned land, constituting an area larger than size of Chandigarh and almost 75 per cent of Guwahati, in four years of steadfastly “resisting” what CM Himanta Biswa Sarma described on Tuesday as an…
File photo: Union agriculture minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan (PTI) NEW DELHI: Raising questions over sale of certain biostimulants whose efficacy is not proven by proper data, Union agriculture minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan Tuesday pulled up officials and asked whether his ministry and the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) are truly serving the interests of…
NEW DELHI: The ‘honeymoon murder’ executed by a woman with the help of her lover in Meghalaya last month appears to be a re-enactment of a 2003 murder case in which the Supreme Court has upheld life sentence to the woman and her accomplices, including her lover, but analysed what drives women to commit such…
Supreme Court (Picture credit: ANI) NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Tuesday acquitted a man who was, on the basis of “faulty investigation, shaky evidence and non-examination of material witnesses”, concurrently convicted and awarded death penalty by a Kerala trial court and HC for murdering a young couple in 2011, and said Parliament can take a…
EAM Jaishankar with Chinese President Xi Jinping The Pahalgam terrorist attack was deliberately conducted to undermine Jammu & Kashmir’s tourism economy and sow a religious divide, external affairs minister S Jaishankar said at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) foreign ministers’ meeting in China’s Tianjin, even as his Pakistani counterpart Ishaq Dar looked on.Recalling the strong…
Shubhanshu Shukla returns safely, next mission: Helping Gaganyaan (Picture credit: AP) With Grace’s gentle splash into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego at 3.02 pm (IST) on Tuesday, Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla (Shux) ended his mission, wrapping up months of training, experiments in orbit, and India’s latest stride in human spaceflight participation.When…
YAMUNANAGAR: Tensions flared in the Durga Garden area of Jagadhri late last night as local residents staged a protest demanding the closure of a liquor vend they claim is fueling a rise in anti-social activities and threatening the safety of women and children in the neighborhood.Dozens of residents, including women, gathered outside the liquor vend…