New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday offered soil into the Amrit Kalash at the Kartavya Path here during an event marking the culmination of the ‘Maati Mera Desh’ campaign. The Amrit Kalash contains soil brought from different parts of the country. Modi offered soil into the Amrit Kalash and then applied a ’tilak’…
New Delhi: The government has ordered an investigation after Opposition MPs claimed that they received warnings of attempts being made by state-sponsored attackers to steal information from their iPhones. In a post on X (formerly Twitter), IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said the government takes its role of protecting the privacy and security of all citizens…
New Delhi: Moderate level of fine particle pollution is associated with a 56 per cent higher risk of developing Parkinson’s disease, new research in the US has found. Previous studies have shown that fine particulate matter, or PM2.5, can cause inflammation in the brain, which is “a known mechanism by which Parkinson’s disease could develop,” according…
Ekta Nagar (Guj): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday flagged off Gujarat’s first heritage train, which will be hauled by an electric engine that has been designed to look like a steam locomotive and boasts of wooden interiors. The three-coach train will connect Ekta Nagar or Kevadia, which is home to the Statue of Unity, Sardar…
New Delhi: iPhone-maker Apple Inc on Tuesday said it does not attribute threat notifications, such as the ones received by some MPs belonging to Opposition parties, to any specific state-sponsored attackers and that it cannot provide information on what causes such warnings. After some of the most vocal critics of the government said they received warnings…
New Delhi: The BJP on Tuesday said it is for Apple to clarify the alerts it has sent to several people, including opposition leaders, about “state-sponsored attackers trying to remotely compromise” their iPhones and rejected the allegations against the government as “baseless and false”. Party leader and former Union IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad told reporters…
New Delhi: At least four opposition leaders on Tuesday claimed to have received messages from Apple warning them of “state-sponsored attackers trying to remotely compromise” their iPhones and posted the purported screenshots on their X handles. Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra, Shiv Sena (UBT)’s Priyanka Chaturvedi, Congress’ Lok Sabha Member Shashi Tharoor and his party’s…
Vijayawada: The Andhra Pradesh High Court on Tuesday granted interim bail to Telugu Desam Party chief and former chief minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu in the alleged scam in Andhra Pradesh Skill Development Corporation for four weeks. After reserving its judgment on Monday on his bail petition on grounds of deteriorating health, the High Court granted on…
Kochi: A case has been registered against Union Minister of State Rajeev Chandrasekhar for allegedly making statements that promote enmity between different groups, police said on Tuesday. The Kerala police registered the FIR on its own in connection with the minister’s recent statements on social media regarding the Kochi blasts and a Hamas leader’s virtual address…
Bhubaneswar: Hours before his swearing-in as Odisha Governor, Raghubar Das on Tuesday morning visited Lord Lingaraj Temple here and offered prayers. Das, who reached Odisha on Monday and paid obeisance in Lord Jagannath temple in Puri, visited the Lingaraj temple to seek blessings before taking oath as Governor of Odisha. “I prayed to Shree Lingaraj to…
