In a diplomatic twist, President Putin of Russia expressed a measured acceptance of a US proposal aimed at peace in Ukraine, indicating it might pave the way for a resolution. However, he criticized Kyiv for what he termed as an unrealistic stance. Russian President Vladimir Putin cautiously welcomed a US plan to end the nearly…
NEW DELHI: Delhi Police has informed Supreme Court that Russian embassy counsellor (head of consular division) Arthur Gerbst had actively helped Viktoriia Basu flee the country unauthorisedly, taking her son born from her marriage to an Indian, by arranging a taxi which took her to Narkatiaganj (Bihar) from where she went to Kathmandu. It said…
NEW DELHI: Four Kanwar pilgrims were killed and several others injured after being hit by a car late Tuesday night on the Sheetla Mata highway in Madhya Pradesh’s Gwalior district.Gwalior’s chief superintendent of police Hina Khan said, “We got information that an incident has happened on the Sheetla Mata highway in which some Kanwar pilgrims…
NEW DELHI: Given the evolving conflict situation since the launch of ‘Operation Sindoor‘ by India against Pakistan in response to the killing of 26 tourists at Pahalgam, Supreme Court on Friday told the Centre that the time is not right for the discharge of 69 short service commission officers (SSCOs), including 47 women.“In the prevailing…
NEW DELHI: Kapil Sibal told the Supreme Court that mosques survived on financial assistance from waqfs as they do not receive any ‘chadava‘ (monetary donation from devotees) like temples, which have corpuses of thousands of crores of rupees. “Waqfs are endowments to Allah. Once a waqf, always a waqf. It is these waqfs from whose…
CHENNAI: A death by snakebite has turned out to be murder at Podaturpet village in Tiruvallur district. The plot is diabolic. On Oct 22, E P Ganesan, 56, a lab assistant at a govt girls’ higher secondary school in Podaturpet, was found dead at his house. Based on a complaint lodged by his son Mohanraj,…
BENGALURU: Karnataka’s government introduced a bill in the assembly on Wednesday that is intended to regulate public gatherings and punish violations. The move comes in wake of the stampede outside the Chinnaswamy Stadium on June 4, during RCB’s IPL victory celebrations, that resulted in 11 deaths.The Karnataka Crowd Control (Managing Crowd at Events and Places…
US President Donald Trump is a little disappointed with his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, as he didn’t read the proposal to end the war with Russia, while Vladimir Putin accepted it. While talking with the reporters at the red carpet of the Kennedy Center Honors, Trump said Ukraine loved the proposal, but Zelenskyy is not…
NEW DELHI: India will restart issuing tourist visas to Chinese citizens from July 24, its embassy in China announced on Wednesday, marking the first such move in five years, as both countries take steps to repair a relationship strained by border clashes and trade tensions, reported Reuters.The decision follows a period of deep freeze in…
AHMEDABAD: Even as protests continue over the death of 15-year-old Nayan Santani who was stabbed by a fellow student outside Seventh Day Adventist school in Maninagar earlier this week, another case of student strife has surfaced; this time, at IP Mission School in Raikhad. Police said a Class 12 student lodged a complaint against an…
