Two factions, two directions: TMC rebels face unprecedented political divide NEW DELHI: The names of 19 of the 20 rebel Trinamool Congress (TMC) Lok Sabha MPs have finally been revealed, with the group submitting their names to Speaker Om Birla’s office on May 18.The breakaway group is led by senior leader Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar. Cricketer-turned-politician…
A Seoul court on Friday sentenced former President Yoon Suk Yeol to 30 years in prison on charges of ordering drone infiltrations into North Korea in an attempt to heighten cross-border tensions and create a basis for his martial law declaration in December 2024.The Seoul Central District Court’s Criminal Division 36 stated that the Pyongyang…
National Medical Commission (NMC) continues its flipflop over whether patients and their families should be allowed to file appeals before it.The commission decided in Sept 2024 that its ethics board would entertain all appeals, including those filed by non-medicos, and confirmed this decision in Dec 2025. Five months later, in May, the ethics board claimed…
Centre has barred industrial, commercial and institutional users from purchasing petrol and diesel from retail fuel outlets, rather switch to bulk sellers.On Wednesday, the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas issued the Motor Spirit and High Speed Diesel (Temporary Regulation of Supply through Retail Outlets) Order, 2026, directing oil marketing companies and fuel retailers to…
New Delhi, Jun 11 (ANI): A visual of the commercial vessel MT Jalveer, with Indian seafarers reportedly on board, attacked off the coast of Oman near the Shinas Port, on Thursday. Casualties feared and further details awaited. (Forward Seamen’s Union of India/ANI Video Grab) Iran on Friday condemned the United States’ attacks on merchant vessels…
Princess Bajrakitiyabha Narendira Debyavati, the eldest daughter of Thailand’s King Maha Vajiralongkorn, has died after being in a coma for more than three years, the royal household announced on Friday. She passed away at the age of 47.The princess collapsed in December 2022 while exercising her dogs. Doctors attributed it to a severely irregular heartbeat…
Calling housewives “nation builders”, Supreme Court for the first time said in case of a homemaker’s death in an accident, the Motor Accident Claims Tribunal will calculate the compensation to be paid to her family by assuming her monthly income to be at least Rs 30,000.Pained by the 25-year delay, 22 of which were because…
Officials said at least eight injured persons were earlier evacuated from the building and taken to the AIIMS Trauma Centre for treatment. NEW DELHI: At least three people died after a massive fire broke out in a residential building in southeast Delhi’s Tughlakabad Extension area in the early hours of Friday, news agency ANI reported.As…
NEW DELHI: Facial authentication, considered by most gadget users as the gold standard for identity verification, is now being bypassed by fraudsters, who gain unauthorised access to facial data through social media platforms and use artificial intelligence to create deepfake videos and synthetic identities.Sharing this latest modus operandi in a public advisory on Wednesday, Indian…
While discussing the ongoing Don 3 controversy, the President of the Indian Film and Television Directors’ Association (IFTDA) and the Chief Advisor for the Federation of Western India Cine Employees (FWICE) Ashoke Pandit spoke about loyalty, stardom and the impact of Aditya Dhar‘s Dhurandhar on the Hindi film industry.Pandit said that while contractual disputes must…