HYDERABAD: A major controversy has erupted in Telangana’s Kamareddy and Hanamkonda districts after around 500 stray dogs were allegedly culled using lethal injections over the past week.According to a report by news agency PTI, some elected representatives — including sarpanches — allegedly carried out the killings to “fulfil promises made to locals” during the recent…
PM Modi during an address at Somnath Swabhiman Parv NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday invoked the history of Somnath Temple and how ancestors had “staked their lives for the temple 1,000 years ago”, saying “flag hoisting at Somnath Mahadev Mandir shows the power of India and its capabilities to the entire world”.“From…
NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday defended interfering during Enforcement Directorate‘s I-PAC raids, accusing the agency of attempting to “steal” her party’s details. She further levelled serious allegations against “senior BJP leaders in Delhi”, claiming that they received “coal scam proceeds” and she could “furnish proof before public”.“What I did yesterday…
NEW DELHI: The ministry of external affairs on Friday rejected recent claims by Donald Trump, declaring that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the US President “share a friendly relationship based on mutual respect.”Addressing the weekly media briefing, MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said, “Prime Minister Modi and President Trump have a friendly relationship and have always…
KOLKATA: Aftershocks of the showdown between Enforcement Directorate (ED) and West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee over raids on Trinamool-linked political consultancy I-PAC jolted Calcutta high court Friday, prompting Justice Suvra Ghosh to postpone hearing petitions filed by either side till Jan 14 on grounds of “enormous disturbance and commotion” in the courtroom.The judge, seemingly annoyed…
Danish PM Mette Frederiksen (AP file photo) Denmark has warned that its troops are under standing orders to “shoot first and ask questions later” if Greenland comes under attack, as anxiety grows in Europe over the United States under President Donald Trump openly weighing military action to seize the Arctic territory.The country’s defence ministry said…
The TOI correspondent from Washington: US commerce secretary Howard Lutnick has offered a blunt and unusually personal account of why a long-anticipated US–India trade agreement failed to materialise, placing the blame squarely on timing, political hesitation in New Delhi, and what he described as President Donald Trump’s deliberately competitive approach to deal-making. Among the reasons…
NEW DELHI: Family members of jailed student activists Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam expressed disappointment and anguish after the Supreme Court declined to grant them bail in the 2020 Delhi riots case, observing that the two stood on a “qualitatively different footing” from five other accused who were granted relief on Monday.Khalid’s family said the…
A Hindu widow in Bangladesh was tortured, raped and tied to a tree before her hair was cut by two local men, one of which had “an evil eye on the woman and made repeated indecent advances,” according to local outlet Bangladesh Partidin.In the tragic incident, which happened in Jhenaidah district on Saturday night, the…
Hindu businessman Khokon Das, who was attacked with sharp weapons and set afire in Bangladesh, died on Saturday while receiving treatment in the Natioal Burn Institute in Dhaka.According to the news agency ANI, professor of the National Burn Institute Dr Shaon Bin Rahman confirmed his death. Another Hindu Targeted In Bangladesh, Wife Alleges Trader Hacked…