Russia and Kazakhstan ordered more than 100,000 people to evacuate after swiftly melting snow swelled mighty rivers beyond bursting point in the worst flooding in the area for at least 70 years. The deluge of melt water overwhelmed scores of settlements in the Ural Mountains, Siberia and areas of Kazakhstan close to rivers such as…
JNU vice-chancellor Santishree D Pandit on Tuesday met students on an indefinite strike at the campus’ main gate against the university administration’s alleged inaction in a sexual harassment complaint and asked them to shift their protest, saying it was causing inconvenience to people. A female student of Jawaharlal Nehru University has alleged that she was…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday hit out at the opposition’s INDIA grouping saying that its leaders were working to protect the corrupt, and abusing and threatening him to hinder the country’s development. “I say remove corruption, they say save the corrupt,” PM Modi said at a rally in Madhya Pradesh’s Balaghat district which will…
Astronomers have finally confirmed the existence of a strange alien world that is tidally locked to its star. This means one side of the planet is always in permanent sunshine, while the other side is in perpetual darkness. This is the first time scientists have been able to confirm this phenomenon on an exoplanet, or…
The Rouse Avenue Court on Tuesday issued summons to Aam Aadmi Parry (AAP) MLA Amanatullah Khan on the basis of the Enforcement Directorate’s recent complaint filed against him for allegedly non-attendance of the summons in the Delhi Waqf Board Money Laundering case. The Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACMM), Divya Malhotra, after hearing the ED’s submissions,…
Congress’s Randeep Surjewala has been sent a show-cause notice by the Election Commission for his alleged comments about BJP’s Mathura MP Hema Malini. Party chief Mallikarjun Kharge has also been asked to list steps taken to ensure that the poll body’s advisories are complied with.
Interrupting Solicitor General Tushar Mehta mid-hearing, Chief Justice DY Chandrachud on Tuesday made a case for stools for the junior lawyers standing behind the top lawyer. “Mr Solicitor, all our young juniors stand day after day, I have been noticing, with their laptops in their hand. In the afternoon, the court master will see if…
After being pulled up by the Supreme Court on several occasions, yoga guru Ramdev and his company Patanjali Ayurved’s managing director Acharya Balkrishna have tendered an unconditional apology to the court for not abiding by the undertaking given to it in the misleading advertisements case. The apology was submitted on Saturday and the Supreme Court…
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, on Tuesday, held the ‘devious tactics’ of Congress responsible for India’s partition seven decades ago. In a public address at Dramond Inter College campus, the Chief Minister also praised India’s remarkable progress towards global eminence under Prime Minister Modi’s leadership, hailing it as a ‘golden era’. He emphasized, “The…
Arvind Kejriwal will remain in jail, the Delhi High Court said Tuesday afternoon as it knocked back the Chief Minister’s challenge to his March 21 arrest in the alleged liquor policy scam. Mr Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party responded swiftly, confirming, within the hour, it plans to appeal to the Supreme Court. The court noted the…
