New Delhi: Six months ahead of his three-year tenure, the government has terminated the services of K V Subramanian as the executive director at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), sources said on Saturday. The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has terminated Subramanian’s services effective April 30, 2025, they added. The reasons for Subramanian’s exit have…
Islamabad: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Saturday said that Pakistan’s response was responsible and measured to India’s provocation following the Pahalgam terror attack. Sharif was talking to the Turkiye Ambassador Dr Irfan Neziroglu who met him in Islamabad, reported Radio Pakistan. The prime minister said, “Despite India’s provocative actions following the Pahalgam incident, Pakistan’s response…
Singapore: Singapore’s long-ruling People’s Action Party won another landslide in Saturday’s general elections, extending its 66-year unbroken rule in a huge boost for Prime Minister Lawrence Wong, who took power a year ago. The Election Department announced the PAP won 82 Parliamentary seats after vote counting ended. The party had earlier won five seats uncontested,…
Bengaluru: Chennai Super Kings skipper MS Dhoni on Saturday took the blame on himself for his side’s narrow two-run loss against Royal Challengers Bengaluru in their IPL match here, saying he should have “converted a couple of more shots to ease the pressure” when he was in the middle. CSK failed to score four runs…
Bengaluru: Ayush Mhatre nearly upended Romario Shepherd’s ferocious 14-ball fifty with a 94 of rare class, but Royal Challengers Bengaluru bowlers kept their nerves in the death overs to carve an out-of-the-woods two-run win over Chennai Super Kings and get closer to IPL playoffs here on Saturday. Once the RCB piled a massive 213 for…
New Delhi: President Droupadi Murmu on Saturday said that terrorism continues to be a scourge facing humanity, which should be condemned unequivocally in all its manifestations. The assertion came in her speech during a banquet hosted for her Angolan counterpart João Manuel Goncalves Lourenco, who is on his first state visit to India. President Murmu…
Srinagar: National Conference supremo Farooq Abdullah on 3 May urged the people of Jammu and Kashmir to stand against the perpetrators of Pahalgam-like attacks for progress and prosperity, asserting that those behind the April 22 massacre would “rot in hell”. The former chief minister of the erstwhile state visited the residence of Adil Hussain Shah,…
New Delhi: Terrorism is the “biggest threat” to humanity, and India is committed to taking “firm and decisive” action against the terrorists and their backers, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday, against the backdrop of escalating tensions between New Delhi and Islamabad over the horrific Pahalgam terror attack. The prime minister made the remarks…
Over the past week or so, I’ve noticed some of my well-placed friends, many of whom I deeply respect and who stood by me in trying times — squirming over my columns. They find my editorials “too harsh,” my views “too direct,” and my refusal to conform “too dangerous.” I’m not here to fault them….
Infertility or childlessness has been a social, psychological, and family problem from times immemorial. In the epic Ramayana, King Dasaradha performed Putrakamisti Yagam to get four children:n Rama, Lakshmana, Bharata, and Satrugna. Similarly, many kings and Chakravathies followed the advice of their Kula guru to beget children. Even know in some parts of India people…
