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John Brittas, Shashi Tharoor (PTI file photos) NEW DELHI: CPI(M) leader John Brittas on Friday criticised Congress MP Shashi Tharoor over his remarks on the state’s name change.Brittas, a Rajya Sabha member from Kerala, responded to a post by Tharoor in which the Thiruvananthapuram MP shared an interview questioning the “symbolic” shift from ‘Kerala’ to…
Iran Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (AP file photo) The United States has escalated pressure on Iran’s leadership, formally designating the country a “state sponsor of wrongful detention” as tensions mount over its nuclear programme. In a statement, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the move, accusing Tehran of using foreign nationals as political leverage….
Several methodological improvements have been made in the way GDP is calculated. (AI image) India has retained its tag of the world’s fastest growing major economy in the third quarter of the financial year 2025-2026, with a better-than-expected GDP growth of 7.8%. This is despite the third quarter being the first full three months of…
Abhishek Sharma (Pic credit: BCCI) CHENNAI: It was a day everything went according to plan for India, starting with South Africa’s easy win against West Indies in Ahmedabad earlier in the day. That result smoothed out the rough edges of this Super 8 Group 1 and meant India would just have to win their remaining…
Singer Shreya Ghoshal may have made a dream debut with Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Devdas, but success did not translate into instant offers. In a recent interaction, Shreya revealed that despite the film’s massive impact, it took time for her next big opportunity to arrive. Singer Shreya Ghoshal may have made a dream debut with Sanjay…
Representational image (PTI file photo) NEW DELHI: The Bombay High Court has directed the Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC) to pay Rs 50 lakh compensation to the widow of an employee who died due to Covid-19 in April 2021.A bench of justices Makarand Karnik and Shriram Modak, in an order dated February 24, said…
The Trump administration on Friday announced fresh federal charges against 30 additional people alleged to have taken part in storming Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, during an anti‑ICE protest on January 18. Of those charged, 25 have already been arrested, Attorney General Pam Bondi said, with more expected to be taken into custody.Bondi, in…
NEW DELHI: Arvind Kejriwal is back with a bang. A Delhi court today discharged the former Delhi chief minister, his ex-deputy Manish Sisodia and 21 others in an excise policy-related corruption case that had kept senior AAP leaders months in jail and had also played a key role in the eventual fall of their government….
NEW DELHI: Viewing the excise controversy as the first chink in then AAP govt’s armour, BJP‘s city started claiming that a party born out of the Anna Hazare movement had strayed from its anti-corruption plank.Long before the saffron party started attacking AAP over “Sheesh Mahal” — a reference to a controversial renovation of the then…
How This Indian American Millionaire Broke Barriers And Is Now Teaching Others to Win At 80 years old, Kanwal Rekhi, a self-made Indian-American millionaire, Silicon Valley pioneer and mentor to thousands, has chronicled his remarkable rise and lifelong mission to empower others in a new book titled The Ground Breaker. The memoir, released on February…
