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S Jaishankar speaks during the release of the Bangla translation of his book ‘Why Bharat Matters’ Kolkata: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Tuesday said that the deployment of forces at the Line of Actual Control (LAC) with China is “abnormal” and the security of the country should not be disregarded. At an event organised…
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The family hails from Lakhimpur Kheri in Uttar Pradesh, the police said. Gurugram: The Gurugram police on Tuesday arrested a woman for allegedly strangling her 8-year-old son to death in a village here, officials said. The woman’s motive behind the crime is yet to be ascertained, however it is suspected that the woman killed her…
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Alice Munro was best known as a master of the short story. Paris: Nobel-winning Canadian writer Alice Munro was best known as a master of the short story. Here are five from her celebrated trove: – ‘Boys and Girls’ (1964) – In one of her earliest stories, Munro delved into what would become a signature…
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Sushil Modi, 72, was suffering from cancer and died on Monday evening. Patna: Senior BJP leader and former Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi was cremated with full state honours in Patna on Tuesday evening. The air reverberated with chants of ‘Sushil Modi Amar Rahein’, as surging crowds broke down barricades when the body…
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Having picked up his five-year-old brother from school, the two were returning home. Their scooter grazed a car and it quickly spiralled into a free-for-all. The car owner, Harsh Upadhyay, and his friends beat up the two brothers and then followed them all the way to their home in Ishwari Khera area in Lucknow on…
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The visuals are misleading as the video was cropped. Visuals of Prime Minister Narendra Modi accepting upside-down artwork depicting Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore are being widely shared on social media. The claim: The visuals are being shared to take a dig at PM Modi, who was campaigning for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for the…
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ED earlier said K Kavitha was “one of the kingpins” on Delhi excise policy case (File) New Delhi: A Delhi court on Tuesday extended the judicial custody of BRS leader K Kavitha, who has been arrested in a money laundering case related to alleged excise policy scam also involving Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, till…
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File photo of Gary Kirsten. | Photo Credit: Vijay Soneji Gary Kirsten will start his two-year assignment as the coach of Pakistan’s white-ball cricket team when he joins the squad in England on May 19. Pakistan will play four Twenty20s against England to prepare for the T20 World Cup next month in the Caribbean and…
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Multiple X-class flares and CMEs have hit the Earth in the past few days, ISRO said. Bengaluru: A powerful solar storm impacted Earth in early May 2024, triggered by the highly active region AR13664 in the Sun, ISRO said on Tuesday. This region unleashed a series of X-class flares and Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) directed…
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Alice Munro published more than a dozen collections of short stories. Ottawa: Nobel Prize-winning Canadian writer Alice Munro, whose exquisitely crafted tales of the loves, ambitions and travails of small-town women in her native land made her a globally acclaimed master of the short story, died on Monday at the age of 92, the Globe…
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