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NEW DELHI: The recent deaths of three Indians on a US-sanctioned ship after a US navy strike and attacks on two more vessels that had Indian sailors on board have brought to light how seafarers are rarely aware about the status of such sanctioned or “dark ships”.A veteran sailor said that in the current dynamic…
“A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.” Everyone remembers Robert Duvall as Tom Hagen when they hear that line, because in a single sentence, he distilled the essence of a character who quietly reshaped how cinema understood power. Hagen was not the loudest presence in The Godfather, nor…
Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu US President Donald Trump on Sunday said that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would have no choice but to accept any agreement negotiated by Washington with Iran, asserting that he was ultimately in charge of the process.Click here for live updatesSpeaking in a telephone interview with the Financial Times, Trump…
You will have to shell out more for your plate of pasta, a biryani handi or namkeen and biscuits because the high cost of commercial LPG cylinders, prices of which have recently been raised for the third time and by Rs 933, coupled with an increase in plastic and packaging rates are pushing restaurants and…
Big education reforms rarely arrive all at once. They move through Cabinet notes, draft clauses and administrative reshuffles before their effects are felt in classrooms and campuses. The Viksit Bharat Shiksha Adhikshan Bill, cleared by the Union Cabinet on Friday, is one such moment. It gives legislative form to a core promise of the National…
Gold is likely to remain volatile and range-bound in the coming week as traders track movements in the US dollar and bond yields, developments in the the Middle East conflict and the direction of crude oil prices.According to analysts, after a week dominated by monetary policy and geopolitical developments, investors are expected to turn their…
Cuttack: Coming down heavily on the misuse of public interest litigation (PIL) once again, Orissa high court has dismissed a plea over an alleged village forest land in Kendrapada district as “a mere fancy litigation” and imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 on the petitioners.A division bench of Chief Justice Harish Tandon and Justice M…
Two wrongs don’t make a right. As much as the BCCI was at fault in instructing the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) to release Mustafizur Rahman from their IPL team, the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) was wrong in trying to score a political point by saying they would like to avoid touring India for the T20…
Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) founder Abhijeet Dipke in a conversation with YouTuber Dhruv Rathee. (Image Credit: PTI) GURGAON: YouTuber Dhruv Rathee was detained by Gurgaon Police on Saturday morning ahead of the Cockroach Janta Party’s (CJP) proposed protest at Jantar Mantar in Delhi.His reported detention comes amid heightened security arrangements in the national capital ahead…
US student loan rules are shifting with plans being phased out, repayment timelines stretched, and ‘pauses’ tightened. America’s student loan system has not been “fixed”. It has been edited in the way bureaucracies edit: Not by tearing the building down, but by changing the doors, tightening the corridors, and extending the walk to the exit.The…
