NEW DELHI: The Rajya Sabha Tuesday saw a sharp exchange between LoP Mallikarjun Kharge and deputy chairman Harivansh over Kharge’s allegation that CISF personnel had entered the well of the House last week during opposition protests. Kharge said the move violated members’ “democratic right of protest”, but the Chair and treasury benches rejected the claim,…
NEW DELHI: Enraged by what it termed “one of the worst and most erroneous orders we have come across”, Supreme Court has pulled up Allahabad HC’s Justice Prashant Kumar for allowing criminal proceedings in a civil dispute case. Questioning Kumar’s competence in deciding criminal cases, SC, in an unprecedented order, directed he shouldn’t be given…
NEW DELHI: Uttar Pradesh govt Tuesday agreed with the Supreme Court’s proposal for appointment of an interim committee headed by a retired high court judge for management of Banke Bihari temple in Vrindavan till Allahabad HC decides the legality of the state’s ordinance designed to take over the shrine to facilitate development of a temple…
ISLAMABAD: Two years after former prime minister Imran Khan was jailed, Pakistan is caught in a dangerous political deadlock. Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) marked the anniversary with nationwide protests on Tuesday, confronting an increasingly dominant military establishment led by Field Marshal Asim Munir.Demonstrators took to the streets in Lahore, Karachi, Peshawar, and other cities, demanding…
NEW DELHI: Former captain Jorge Costa has died aged 53 after a cardiac arrest at the team’s training ground, Porto announced on Tuesday, paying tribute to “a key figure in the club’s history”.“The legendary FC Porto captain and current director of professional football, passed away this Tuesday following a cardiopulmonary arrest,” the club said in…
Representative Image (File photo) NEW DELHI: Air India cancelled its scheduled flight from Delhi to Milan on Tuesday after a technical issue was detected in the aircraft before takeoff.In a statement, the airline said Flight AI137, which was to operate on August 5, was called off due to a maintenance-related issue found in the Boeing…
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday warned of a whopping 250% tariffs on the pharma industry one year, one-and-a-half years. “We’ll be putting (an) initially small tariff on pharmaceuticals, but in one year, one-and-a-half years, maximum, it’s going to go to 150 percent and then it’s going to go to 250 percent because we want…
Pamela Anderson is not worried about claims that Meghan Markle copied her new food series. The former Baywatch star spoke about the issue on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen. When Cohen asked her to rate, on a scale of one to ten, how much Markle’s With Love, Meghan looked like her own Pamela’s…
Russia on Tuesday criticised Donald Trump’s threat to “substantially” raise tariffs on India over its continued oil trade with Moscow, saying that “sovereign countries have the right to choose their own trading partners.”“Sovereign countries have the right to choose their own trading partners,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told news agency AFP, criticising calls to “force…
DEHRADUN: A devastating flash flood triggered by a cloudburst in the upper catchment area of the Kheer Ganga river caused large-scale destruction in Dharali village in Uttarkashi district, a key stop on the way to Gangotri Dham, on Tuesday.According to district police, the rising water level of Kheer Gadh in the Harsil area led to…
