Chennai: The ruling DMK dispensation has been burdening the people with taxes for the last four years and it has not addressed the issue of inflation, AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami said on Thursday. Since the DMK came to power, the price of commodities has skyrocketed. The government has not enforced any measures to…
Washington: US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order seeking to declassify files on the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. Asserting that the victims’ families and the American people deserve to know the truth about these assassinations, the executive order directs…
Seattle: A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order redefining birthright citizenship, calling it “blatantly unconstitutional” during the first hearing in a multi-state effort challenging the order. U.S. District Judge John Coughenour repeatedly interrupted a Justice Department lawyer during arguments to ask how he could consider the order constitutional. When the…
London: An Opposition Conservative Party Member of Parliament has urged the UK Home Secretary to intervene after his constituents in north-west London were threatened by “masked Khalistani terrorists” who burst into a screening of Kangana Ranaut’s film ‘Emergency’. Bob Blackman told the House of Commons that similar disruption of the screenings of the “very controversial”…
Nashik: Union minister Ramdas Athawale on Thursday said the central government’s ambitious ‘PM DAKSH’ scheme is significant for skill development and upskilling among target groups. This scheme would enable communities engaged in traditional economic activities to compete effectively in the market, he told reporters on the sidelines of the ‘Shilp Samagam Mela 2025’ here. The…
New Delhi: BJP president J P Nadda on Thursday called AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal the “biggest liar” as he targeted the party’s government in Delhi over its alleged corruption and failure to fulfill its promises during its 10-year tenure. If a competition of lying is organized at the national level, Kejriwal would come first, Nadda…
Davos: US President Donald Trump on Thursday addressed the World Economic Forum where he offered business leaders low taxes if they manufacture their products in the US, while threatening them with tariffs if they don’t. Addressing the forum’s Annual Meeting here through video conferencing, Trump also said he is going to ask Saudi Arabia and…
The visit of Pakistan’s ISI Chief, Lt. Gen. Asim Malik, to Dhaka, where he conducted multiple meetings in military cantonments, is not just a diplomatic gesture; it’s a signal of deeper machinations that India must not ignore. The evolving dynamics between Bangladesh and Pakistan, especially in the backdrop of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s forced ouster…
Sukhwinder Singh, a 33-year-old attendant with the Placement Cell at NIPER S.A.S. Nagar (Mohali), has been missing since February 3, 2021. Employed through an outsourcing agency, Singh was a resident of Paprali village near Kurali, according to media reports. Despite a Daily Diary Report (DDR) being filed at Phase 11 Police Station in Mohali, the…
The recent episode of a stampede at a cinema hall in Hyderabad resulting in the tragic death of a woman and the fate of a child whose life hangs in suspended animation once again brings to the fore the role of cinema and the need for state intervention. That cinema has come to occupy a…
