A day after DMK leader M.K. Stalin met President Pranab Mukherjee and submitted a memorandum on the events that took place in Tamil Nadu assembly last week, he met Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Friday and discussed the political situation in the state. “It was a courtesy call. He enquired about her (Sonia Gandhi) health […]
Google’s self-driving car company Waymo has filed a lawsuit against global ride-hailing app Uber for allegedly stealing trade secrets and technology from it. The lawsuit, filed against Uber’s self-driving vehicle unit Otto that it bought last year for $680 million, argued that former Waymo manager Anthony Levandowski took information when he left the company and […]
Thousands of devotees on Friday thronged various Shiva temples across Odisha to offer prayers on the occasion of Mahashivratri. People were seen standing in long queues at all Shiva temples to have a holy “darshan” of Lord Shiva. The major crowd-puller during Mahashivratri are Lingaraj temple of Bhubaneswar, Kapilash temple of Dhenkanal, Dhabaleswar temple of […]
China supports India on combating terrorism and a discussion to declare Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Masood Azhar a “global terrorist” is in progress, Chinese Ambassador to India Luo Zhaohui said on Friday. “The discussion is going on. I am so happy to see your Foreign Secretary in Beijing two days ago… discussing everything… so, just wait,” Luo […]
Kashmiri youth picked up arms “for a cause” and they can not be intimidated with death threats, former Union Minister and state Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah said on Friday. Addressing party workers at the Nawa-i-Subha headquarters of the National Conference, Abdullah said: “They are not afraid of death nor can they be intimidated with the […]
Noted historian and biographer, Ramachandra Guha has said that India offers an “inhospitable” atmosphere for writing historical biographies. He said that biographies are written under constant fear of offending someone, a problem that historians have been dealing with regularly. Guha was speaking at the Samvatsar Lecture of Sahitya Akademi’s Festival of Letters on Thursday here […]
The insurgent groups in Manipur have called for a shutdown in the state on Saturday when Prime Minister Narendra Modi campaigns here for the upcoming assembly election, a statement said. Late on Thursday night, the Coordinating Committee (Corcom) that constitutes of six insurgent groups, in a communique said that the blockade would start at 6 […]
The killing of an Indian-origin man shows the worst and the best of America — the undercurrent of bigotry and the heroism and the generosity, which are often the dominant traits. A 24-year-old man rushed to overpower the gunman, who shot dead Srinivas Kuchibhotla and injured Alok Madasani, and himself took several bullets in the […]
US Vice President Mike Pence made a surprise visit to a historic Jewish cemetery in Missouri state to condemn a vandalism that took place there, a media report said. “From the heart, there is no place in America for hatred or acts of prejudice or violence or anti-Semitism,” he said on Wednesday. Pence called Missouri’s […]
Two people were killed and six others injured on Thursday when militants attacked security forces in Jammu and Kashmir’s Shopian district, police said. The forces were returning from a search operation in Kungoo village when they were attacked at. “The victims comprised a soldier and a civilian. Reinforcements were immediately rushed to surround the area […]