Washington: The US Senate advanced a sweeping sanctions bill on Russian energy on Tuesday which might give US President Donald Trump the authority to impose heavy sanctions on Russian officials as well as upto 100% tariffs on nations like India and China in order to deter them from buying Russian oil and gas. The bill was…
New Delhi: The Lok Sabha on Tuesday passed the Public Examinations (Prevention of Unfair Means) Amendment Bill, 2026, introducing significantly harsher punishments for question paper leaks, organised examination fraud and institutional complicity. Ironically, the legislation, aimed at protecting the future of millions of students, was passed amid sloganeering by Opposition members, who chose protest over…
New Delhi: The Indian embassy in Ukraine on Wednesday said it was closely monitoring the situation involving a merchant vessel carrying 13 Indian seafarers near Ukraine’s Black Sea coast, following reports that it was under threat from repeated drone and missile attacks. The embassy said it was in constant touch with all concerned authorities to…
Moscow: Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has charged Telegram co-founder Pavel Durov with facilitating terrorist activities and launched procedures to place him on the international wanted list, according to Russian state-run news agency TASS. The FSB said Durov, who heads Telegram’s administration, has been charged under Part 1.1 of Article 205.1 of the Russian Criminal…
New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s ‘idiots’ remark sparked an uproar in the Lok Sabha on 29 July, with Union Minister Kiren Rijiju urging the Leader of the Opposition (LoP) to refrain from using ‘unparliamentary’ words. Rahul Gandhi also targeted Home Minister Amit Shah over the recent police action against protesters in New Delhi, drawing…
New Delhi: The CBI on Tuesday filed a chargesheet against 13 accused in the NEET UG 2026 paper leak case, including three paper experts, two associated with coaching centres, middlemen and several beneficiary candidates, officials said on Tuesday. In its chargesheet filed before a special court, the CBI invoked charges of criminal conspiracy, cheating, criminal…
Washington: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he had an “excellent” meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House on Tuesday, their first sit-down since launching a joint war against Iran and it offered Netanyahu a chance to smooth out strains in their relationship. The closed-door meeting lasted nearly an hour and a half…
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Tuesday said the right to protest does not extend to damaging the “seat of sovereignty,” and a police officer’s image cannot be “tarnished” over an alleged “overuse of power” during the July 20 march to Parliament against the NEET paper leak. Justice Girish Kathpalia made the observations while…
M.S. Sparsha Ask any Indian who made the country’s first motion picture and the answer, almost instinctively, is Dadasaheb Phalke. And rightly so. His Raja Harishchandra (1913) occupies an honoured place in our cinematic history as India’s first full-length feature film. But history sometimes forgets its earliest dreamers. Twelve years before Phalke ever bought a…
Political criticism is intrinsic to parliamentary democracy. So is the Opposition’s right to question the government of the day. But when political rhetoric begins to overshadow facts, particularly while discussing individuals whose professional accomplishments are a matter of public record, it deserves closer scrutiny. The controversy erupted during the parliamentary debate on the Public Examinations…
