NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued stern warning to WhatsApp and its parent company Meta Platforms against sharing users’ private data for targeted advertising, warning that citizens’ right to privacy could not be compromised for the business interests of a multinational corporation. A three-judge bench led by Chief Justice Surya Kant said it…
NEW DELHI: Air India has launched a fleet-wide inspection of fuel control switches on its Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft after a malfunction was reported on a flight from London Heathrow to Bengaluru.The move follows an incident earlier this week in which a pilot flagged a defect in the fuel control switch of a Boeing 787-8…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Monday sought responses from Centre and states on a petition by National Council of Churches alleging freedom of religion laws enacted by states violate citizens’ fundamental rights by criminalising voluntary and conscience-based conversions and arguing that prior govt-approval for conversion violates individuals’ right to privacy.One of the laws challenged by…
NEW DELHI: The Congress on Tuesday urged the Centre to “take the Parliament and the entire country into confidence” over details of the India-US trade agreement after US President Donald Trump publicly announced and outlined its key components. Adding Indians have the right to know the full terms of the pact.In a post on X,…
INDORE: What a mother hears, the child remembers — or so the epics say. Abhimanyu learned how to breach a battle formation before he was born. Madhya Pradesh is turning that belief into policy with Garbh Sanskar rooms planned across govt hospitals to “educate the mind of the fetus”.These dedicated spaces are meant to guide…
NEW DELHI: You can eat right, exercise daily and avoid every bad habit — but your genes may still have a major say on how long you live. A major new study suggests that nearly half of human lifespan is determined by genetics, challenging the belief that lifestyle and environment shape longevity the most.Published in…
HYDERABAD: A father of three aspiring to contest the upcoming Maharashtra panchayat elections despite being ineligible under the two-child norm allegedly killed one of his six-year-old twin daughters by drowning her in a Telangana canal, police said Monday after his arrest.Pandurang Kondamangale, a resident of Maharashtra’s Nanded, was traced after a Telangana Police constable uploaded…
Kamakhya-Howrah Vande sleeper goes non-veg with chicken curry KOLKATA: Railways introduced chicken curry on Kamakhya-Howrah Vande Bharat sleeper, reversing a veg-only menu that sparked a political storm, reports Ajanta Chakraborty. The curry will vary by direction — Assamese flavours from Kamakhya, Bengali from Howrah.Railway minister Ashwini Vaishnaw announced on Sunday the change days after passengers…
Maharashtra deputy CM Sunetra Pawar paid a condolence visit to the family of the late PSO Vidhit Jadhav (ANI photo) MUMBAI: Monday saw claims and counter-claims about meetings to plan a merger between the two NCP groups — with Sharad Pawar’s faction confirming the meetings and more voices in Ajit Pawar’s outfit denying them. Pawar…
NASHIK: The Jalgaon health department cancelled nearly 3,000 delayed birth and death certificates after it found they were generated illegally, and reported the matter to the state govt.Dr Sachin Bhayekar, the district health officer, said the administration, at the beginning of Jan 2026, received information that illegal delayed birth and death certificates were generated and…
