NEW DELHI: Haryana chief minister Nayab Singh Saini, reacting to the Charkhi Dadri lynching case, said on Saturday that villagers revere the cow and if they sense some untoward situation then “who could stop them?”. Saini was reacting to five vigilantes who lynched a man over suspicion that he had consumed beef.The Haryana CM, however,…
The Harris-Walz campaign seems to be strategically avoiding the topic of the southern border, focusing instead on broader campaign themes to sidestep potential pitfalls. This calculated silence can be attributed to several reasons. Firstly, the unpredictability of border dynamics makes the situation volatile. Although there has been a recent decline in border crossings, these numbers…
NEW DELHI: More than 24,000 members of the Indian diaspora have signed up to attend a mega community event that will be addressed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi here next month.The ‘Modi & US’ Progress Together’ event will be held on September 22 at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, which has a capacity of 15,000.The…
COLOMBO: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has expressed hope for a reconciliation process that addresses the aspirations of the minority Tamil community in Sri Lanka for equality, justice and self-respect, as he highlighted the implementation of the 13 Amendment to the Constitution to achieve the objective. The remarks by Jaishankar came on Wednesday as he…
LONDON: A newly elected British Sikh Labour Member of Parliament has defended his record as a landlord after UK media reports highlighted anonymous complaints from his tenants of being subjected to poor living conditions in properties owned by him. Jas Athwal, elected to Parliament in last month’s general election from Ilford South constituency in east…
NEW DELHI: Thousands of Russians gathered in Moscow on Friday to mourn the death of opposition politician Alexei Navalny. Navalny’s mother and father attended a small funeral in a Moscow church, surrounded by police. A photograph of Navalny’s body in a flower-laden coffin circulated on social media. Inside the church, an Orthodox priest conducted a…
TAIPEI: Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defence (MND) has said that it has detected 10 Chinese military aircraft and five naval ships around Taiwan in the past 24 hours, till 6 am (local time) on Saturday, Taiwan News reported. Taiwan’s MND did not reveal whether the Chinese military aircraft crossed into China’s air defence identification zone…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday flagged off three new Vande Bharat Express trains for Meerut-Lucknow; Madurai-Bengaluru; and Chennai-Nagercoil via video conferencing.The new trains will add to the current fleet of more than 100 semi-high speed trains connecting more than 280 districts across the country.“Today from North to South a new chapter is…
Hitting all six deliveries in an over out of the park is a feat that was first accomplished in cricket at any level on August 31, 1968, when the West Indies legend Sir Garfield Sobers hit 6 sixes in an over while leading Nottinghamshire against Glamorgan in a first-class match of the English County Championship….
PURI: Excitement filled the air in Puri town on Sunday as people eagerly awaited the unveiling of what’s inside the Ratna Bhandar, the sacred and spiritual treasury of Lord Jagannath, which is surrounded by many legends. The atmosphere was charged with a mix of apprehension and enthusiasm among the devotees during the opening of the…
