- India
POCSO Act will prevail over personal laws: Karnataka HC
Bengaluru: The Karnataka High Court has held that the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) and IPC Acts are substantive and prevail over personal laws. A bench headed by Justice Rajendra…
- Business
Q3 2022 gold demand shines in India
Chennai: The demand for gold went up by 14 per cent to 191.7 ton in India during the third quarter of this calendar year, said the World Gold Council (WGC) on Tuesday.…
- News
UP: Decomposed body found in locked train toilet
Shahjahanpur (Uttar Pradesh): A highly decomposed body of an unidentified man was recovered from a locked toilet of the Amritsar-bound Janseva Express at Roza station in Shahjahanpur district. The body is of…
- World
Braverman calls migrant crisis an ‘invasion’, faces heat
London: Indian-origin Suella Braverman, already under fire over her re-appointment as the UK Home Secretary, has sparked off another outrage by comparing migrant crisis in the country to “invasion”. Braverman, who was…
- World
UN chief highlights cities’ role in promoting global sustainable development
United Nations: Accounting for a majority of global carbon emissions, cities play critical roles in building a sustainable world for all, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said. Guterres underscored the point in a…
- World
Russia welcome back into grain export deal: UN official
United Nations: The UN looks forward to welcoming Russia back in the fulfilment of the Black Sea Grain Initiative, which Moscow has halted following an attack on the Russian Black Sea Fleet,…
- Telangana
Telangana weavers send thousands of postcards to PM
Hyderabad: In a novel protest, thousands of handloom weavers from Telangana on Monday sent postcards to Prime Minister Narendra Modi demanding rollback of Goods and Service Tax (GST) on handlooms. Thousands of…
- News
Israel, Bahrain discuss strengthening economic ties
Jerusalem: Israeli Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman and Bahrain’s Commerce and Industry Minister Zayed R. Alzayani have discussed ways to strengthen economic ties between the two countries. In a meeting in Jerusalem with…
- Technology
Instagram suffers global outage, 2nd in 1 week
New Delhi: Thousands of Instagram users from all over the world reported issues as the outage began Monday morning, locking users out and informing many of them that “we suspended your account”.…
- Business
Costly imports, Ukraine crisis hit India’s paper supplies
New Delhi: The Ukraine-Russia war has put a strain on global supply chains and while transportation of various commodities have been severely impacted, India’s paper imports were hit to such an extent…
- Technology
Dubai-based fraudster dupes bizman of Rs 17L through bitcoin sale
New Delhi: Investing in Bitcoin proved costly for a businessman based in South Delhi, who lost Rs 17 lakh to a Dubai-based fraudster, who was using the bank account of a Aligarh-based…
- World
Criminal trial against Trump Organisation on tax fraud starts in New York
New York :The jury in the criminal trial against the Trump Organisation started to hear opening statements on a 15-year tax fraud scheme from the plaintiff and the defendant in the Supreme…
- Middle East
Iran sanctions 10 US officials, 4 institutions for ‘inciting violence, interference’
Tehran: Iranian Foreign Ministry has announced that Tehran has imposed sanctions against 10 US individuals and four institutions for violating human rights, interfering in Iran’s internal affairs, and inciting violence and riots…
- Business
Musk dissolves Twitter’s board, is now the sole director
San Francisco: Chief Twit Elon Musk has dissolved Twitter’s board of directors after his takeover of the company, according to a US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing on Monday. Musk, according…
- World
1 dead after shooting at high school in Canada
Ottawa: One person was dead and another was in hospital after a shooting at a high school’s front yard in Toronto, the largest city of Canada, police said. The shooting happened just…
