Gangster Chhota Rajan (File photo) MUMBAI: With a key witness admitting that he was uncertain about the identity of the person who made calls about threats, a special CBI court this week acquitted gangster Chhota Rajan in a 21-year-old case where he is accused of ordering the violent closure of a construction site after a…
NEW DELHI: It was shortly after 9am that India’s director general of military operations, Lt Gen Rajiv Ghai, got a call on the hotline from his Pakistani counterpart Maj Gen Kashif Abdullah. Abdullah sounded Ghai out on a ceasefire and, it is learned, referred to the conversation US secretary of state Marco Rubio had with…
NEW DELHI: Liver and kidney problems induced by alcohol consumption went up manifold in Andhra Pradesh between 2019 and 2024, a study by the state’s health department has found, with the period under question coinciding with the YSRCP regime that is also facing charges of a massive “liquor scam”.Studying the admissions under the Arogyasri scheme…
Two gates at the Baglihar Hydroelectric Power Project Dam built on the Chenab River were opened (ANI) Srinagar: While India and Pakistan agreed to a pause in firing and military action, with no mention of the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) which India has put in abeyance, two gates of the Baglihar dam were thrown open…
Pakistan violated ceasefire, hours after reaching agreement NEW DELHI: After three nights of intense aerial warfare, India and Pakistan reached an understanding to end the fighting that President Donald Trump claimed was “mediated” by the US, but which India insisted was achieved bilaterally through director general of military operations (DGMO)-level talks initiated by the Pakistani…
A structure in Muridke damaged in the Indian strike LONDON: Sky News has traced social media accounts expressing support for jihadist terrorist groups such as Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and al-Qaida to the exact location of the building in Muridke, Pakistan, which was struck by India last week in retaliation for the Pahalgam terrorist attack.A Sky News…
Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif (File photo) called National Command Authority meeting; however, Pakistan’s defence minister later said that no such meeting was held NEW DELHI: Government on Saturday mocked Pakistan for calling a meeting of its National Command Authority, the top military and civil body overseeing the country’s nuclear arsenal, only to cancel it shortly…
NEW DELHI: India’s Operation Sindoor, conducted on the night of May 6 and 7, resulted in the elimination of around a dozen high-value terrorists in Pakistan, including IC-814 hijacker Yusuf Azhar, chief of Lashkar’s Muridke headquarters Abu Jundal aka Mudassar, and the son of the 2016 Nagrota attack plotter.Sources termed the deaths of the jihadi…
Subbanna Ayyappan (File photo) MYSURU: Subbanna Ayyappan (70), the first non-crop scientist to head Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), was found dead in the Cauvery river near Srirangapatna, Mandya, about 20 km from Mysuru, on Saturday. Police retrieved his body after the public saw it floating in the river.Mandya SP Mallikarjun Baladandi confirmed that…
The border area of Uri was targeted by Pakistani troops (Image credit: Bilal Bahadur) NEW DELHI: Before the pause in hostilities on Saturday evening, cross-border combat had rapidly moved up the escalation ladder with India strongly striking back at Pakistan by targeting nine airbases and two radar sites to inflict heavy damage in the early…
