A special court convicted Tahir Hussain and four others for the brutal murder of IB officer Ankit Sharma (R). NEW DELHI: Delhi Police on Monday pressed for the death penalty for former AAP councillor Tahir Hussain and four others convicted in the 2020 murder of Intelligence Bureau (IB) officer Ankit Sharma, arguing before a Delhi…
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Monday dismissed Benjamin Netanyahu‘s accusation that he was “fomenting hate”, saying he was “not interested in getting into a back-and-forth” with the Israeli prime minister over his past support for the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) arrest warrant against him.Mamdani made the remarks while addressing reporters at a press…
A C-130J of the Indian Air Force takes off. (Image credit: IAF) The Ministry of Defence has moved a step closer to finalising the Indian Air Force’s Medium Transport Aircraft (MTA) programme, completing technical evaluations of proposals submitted by three foreign vendors. The exercise comes against the backdrop of an AN-32 crash that claimed five…
Swati Maliwal slams ‘super CM’ Kejriwal for maintaining ‘complete silence’ on Punjab paper leak issue NEW DELHI: Rajya Sabha MP Swati Maliwal on Tuesday accused the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government of failing to address examination irregularities in Punjab, claiming that the state had witnessed six major paper leaks over the past five years.Speaking to…
“Whosoever committed excesses, took law in their hands should be taken to task,” the SC said. NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court Tuesday noted that a fair and independent probe into all allegations of “police excesses against protesting NEET students” was required as the opposition continued to protest the use of pellet guns against demonstrators marching…
US president Donald Trump is set to host Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on Tuesday (local time) for separate high-stakes meetings as the wars in Ukraine and West Asia enter critical phases. The back-to-back talks are expected to focus on the Russia-Ukraine conflict, Iran, regional security…
Police arrested Ritesh Rajwade, 23, who confessed to the brutal crime. RAIPUR: A 20-year-old domestic worker, her throat slit in a brutal attack inside a public park in Chhattisgarh’s Surajpur district, desperately ran out in search of help before collapsing in a puddle of blood. Unable to speak because of the deep neck wound, she…
The history of hepatitis shows that scientific breakthroughs rarely happen overnight. For thousands of years, people saw yellow eyes, dark urine and unexplained liver disease, but no one knew what caused them. Ancient Chinese writings described outbreaks of jaundice nearly 5,000 years ago. Babylonian records also mention similar illnesses more than 2,500 years ago. Yet…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has sought to clarify his company’s stance amid the growing industry debate over open-weight AI models. In a blog post, Amodei said that Anthropic has “never advocated for a ban on open-weights models,” countering criticism that the firm is trying to exert excessive control over the future of artificial intelligence. His…
Meta admits that PM Modi’s video was ‘removed’ in error NEW DELHI: Meta on Tuesday admitted that Prime Minister Narendra Modi‘s first selfie video on Facebook, meant to address GenZ over NEET paper leak, was taken down briefly due to an “error”.“The content was removed in error and has since been restored,” said a Meta…
