Mumbai: Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray has hit back at critics, especially the BJP and the Raj Thackeray-led Maharashtra Navnirman Sena, who have run campaigns to re-open temples and allow Dahi Handi festivities amid the threat of a third COVID-19 wave. “This is not the freedom…
BJP MLA Biswajit Das today switched to the ruling Trinamool Congress in Bengal, becoming the third lawmaker to return since Mamata Banerjee’s big victory in the April-May state polls. Biswajit Das had moved to the BJP in an exodus of Trinamool Congress leaders just before the election. Like many others who claim…
Kabul: The hardline Islamist Taliban celebrated their total return to power on Tuesday with gunfire and diplomacy, after the last US troops flew out of Afghanistan to end two decades of war. The United States’ longest military conflict drew to a close on Monday night when its forces abandoned Kabul’s…
As India gets ready to face a possible third wave of SARS-CoV-2, World Health Organization (WHO) chief scientist Dr Soumya Swaminathan has said that “India seems to be entering some stage of Covid-19 endemicity where there is low- to moderate-level transmission”. Earlier this year, scientists had…
Kaun Banega Crorepati‘s latest episode featured a question on Antarctica’s highest summit, Vinson Massif. The contestant on the hot-seat Himani Bundela, a visually-impaired math teacher, correctly answered the question to win a prize money of Rs 6,40,000. She later went on to win Rs 1 crore, becoming the first…
Dutch company Prosus, a division of South African multinational Naspers, announced Tuesday that the Indian unit of its fintech business PayU will acquire 100 per cent in homegrown digital payments provider BillDesk for $4.7 billion. With this, Prosus will look to augment its payment business in India. What is BillDesk…
The Goa Bench of the Bombay High Court on Tuesday adjourned the hearing on the Goa government’s appeal against journalist Tarun Tejpal’s acquittal in a 2013 rape case, pending a request before the Chief Justice for a hybrid (physical plus virtual) hearing into the matter. The court fixed September 20 for the next…
At least eleven pilgrims were killed and seven others injured after the van they were travelling in collided with a truck in Rajasthan’s Nagaur district on Tuesday. The accident occurred near Shri Balaji temple on the Bikaner-Jodhpur Highway. The victims, who hailed from Madhya Pradesh’s Ujjain district, were…
Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar Monday said that 85 per cent of those who are protesting as part of the farmers’ agitation are from Punjab, while Haryana’s farmers are “happily working in their fields”. He also issued a “warning” to those who had chosen Haryana as the land for disrupting law and…
PUNJAB CHIEF Minister Capt Amarinder Singh on Monday slammed his Haryana counterpart Manohar Lal Khattar over his remarks on the Karnal lathicharge and blaming the Punjab government for backing the protesters, saying that Khattar’s remarks “had completely exposed his government’s anti-farmer agenda”. Talking…