New Delhi: Supreme Court on Wednesday said if a person’s fundamental right to freedom of religion is held to be superior to the identical right of a group or denomination, it could lead to dangerous consequences and the court was not going to be part of the process for annihilation of a religion. .Bindu Ammini,…
US President Donald Trump narrowly escaped harm after a shooting scare disrupted the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in Washington, turning one of the capital’s most prominent social and political gatherings into a scene of panic, lockdown and intense security action. Gunfire erupted near a screening checkpoint outside the Washington Hilton shortly before Trump was scheduled…
NEW DELHI: India will never bow to any form of terror, and the heinous designs of terrorists will never succeed, PM Modi posted on X on the first anniversary of the Pahalgam terror attack on Wednesday. The United States and Israel, among several countries, also honoured the memory of the victims, expressing solidarity with India…
NEW DELHI: Leader of opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Sunday upped the ante against Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the NEET-UG 2026 paper leak and questioned why Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan had not been removed from office.In a post on X, Rahul compared the handling of the 2024 and 2026 NEET paper…
Astronaut-designate Group Captain Prashant Nair, who is being trained for the Gaganyaan mission along with Grp Capt Shubhanshu Shukla, has requested Indian startups “to make space toilet” as the world needs more research on that front.Speaking at the DefSpace symposium here on Friday, Nair, nicknamed ‘Papa’, said, “Russia is the only country in the world…
New Delhi: A view of Supreme Court of India, in New Delhi. (PTI Photo/Shahbaz Khan) New Delhi: Terming a two-decade-old jurisprudence giving primacy to right of accused to fair and speedy trial and their release to avoid prolonged pretrial incarceration as “old-fashioned”, Supreme Court on Monday said the present jurisprudence gives equal weightage to justice…
Indian-origin scientist Jay Bhattacharya has urged Americans not to panic over the hantavirus outbreak linked to a cruise ship near Spain’s Canary Islands, insisting the situation is “not Covid” and is unlikely to spiral into a large-scale public health crisis.Speaking on CNN’s ‘State of the Union’ on Sunday, the acting Director of the US Centers…
Shashank Singh and Karun Nair (BCCI/IPL Photo) NEW DELHI: Catches win matches, is an old adage in cricket , and rightly so. One moment of brilliance in the field can change the course of a game. But equally, one dropped catch can prove costly – sometimes even haunting captains and teams for a long time.The…
As GLP-1 generics flood market, govt intensifies surveillance NEW DELHI: With prices of GLP-1 drugs crashing and their generic versions flooding the market, govt has cracked down on their misuse, inspecting 49 businesses and issuing notices while also flagging risks of unsupervised consumption in a detailed advisory.To ensure ethical pharmaceutical practices, Drug Controller General of…
West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari’s aide Chandranath Rath NEW DELHI: The Central Bureau of Investigation has arrested Vinay Rai, the fifth accused in the murder case of Chandranath Rath, personal assistant to West Bengal chief minister Suvendu Adhikari.Rai was arrested from Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh as the probe into the high-profile killing widened across…
