NEW DELHI: Trinamool Congress MP Kalyan Banerjee was suspended from Lok Sabha on Wednesday for using unparliamentary language against a women member of the House.This comes after Kalyan Banerjee engaged in a heated verbal exchange with hid former party colleagues and NCPI MPs in the Lok Sabha chamber.The Nationalist Citizens Party of India (NCPI) members…
A US Marine F-35 lands on a ship while deployed near the Persian Gulf. (Image credit: US Central Command) As the conflict involving Iran intensifies, the focus of the renewed US military campaign has shifted to the country’s southern coast, particularly the strategic port city of Bandar Abbas. Washington’s objective is to weaken Iran’s ability…
Image Used For Representational Purpose Only HYDERABAD: A woman cabin crew member of a private airline alleged that she was raped by a cab driver on July 20 while she was en route to the airport. Police registered a rape case and arrested the accused on Tuesday. He was sent to judicial remand. According to…
Suspected terrorists target police party in Anantnag, policeman injured NEW DELHI: A police personnel was killed after terrorists attacked a police party in Jammu and Kashmir‘s Anantnag town on Wednesday, officials told news agency PTI.The attack took place around 12.30 pm near Lal Chowk in Anantnag town, when the assailants fired at the police team,…
AI generated image used for representational purpose NEW DELHI: A district consumer commission in Himachal Pradesh has ordered Paytm to refund a cancelled flight ticket amount to a customer, along with compensation and legal costs. The commission said Paytm failed to make sure the refund actually reached him, even though the airline had already sent…
SC issues notice to Om Birla (ANI images) NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday issued notices to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, the Lok Sabha Secretary and six rebel Shiv Sena MPs on a plea filed by the Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray (UBT) faction challenging the Speaker’s decision to recognise the merger of the six…
Jaishankar and Rubio in Manila External affairs minister S Jaishankar on Wednesday met US secretary of state Marco Rubio in Manila, with the two leaders holding wide-ranging discussions on trade, tariffs, energy, defence, critical minerals, artificial intelligence and regional security.The meeting took place on the sidelines of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) foreign…
Gelephu Mindfulness City, a high-tech, culturally anchored urban experiment. (Artist’s impression) Bhutan has long been the soft, poetic rebuke to a world defined by GDP figures and glitzy ‘smart’ development models.For decades it has marketed itself — and, more importantly, governed itself — around Gross National Happiness (GNH), a state philosophy that values well‑being, cultural…
General Fabien Mandon, Chief of the Defence Staff of the French Armed Forces, receives Guard of Honour. (Image credit: HQ IDS) France’s chief of defence staff (CDS) General Fabien Mandon is in India to further strengthen the already strong strategic relationship between the two countries. During his visit to New Delhi, the French CDS met…
Render of the GCAP in flight. (Image credit: GCAP consortium) Canada, has announced that it is entering the sixth-generation Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP) initiated by UK‑Japan‑Italy, as an observer. This even as the Royal Canadian Air Force has ordered 88 F-35As from the United States, in a bid to replace each and every older…
