NEW DELHI: Maulana Arshad Madani, who leads one of the two factions of Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind, on Wednesday alleged that the “flexible policy” adopted by Congress during its tenure towards “politics of hatred based on religion caused severe damage to both the country and Constitution”.He also claimed if Congress had taken “the same strict stand against…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court will hear on Thursday the petition filed by ED against West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee for allegedly obstructing ED’s raid on I-PAC’s Pratik Jain, and for tampering and stealing evidence and intimidating its officials.A bench comprising Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra and Justice Vipul M Pancholi will hear the writ petition filed…
Foreign secretary Misri (R) with Sun Haiyan of CPC Wednesday NEW DELHI: Foreign secretary Vikram Misri stressed the need to take positive steps for improved Sino-Indian ties in a meeting with Sun Haiyan, vice minister of the International Department of the Communist Party of China (IDCPC) who is on a visit to India.Talks covered the…
BENGALURU: If you have been stressing overmuch about AI hallucinations lately, maybe it’s time for the chatbot to see a shrink. “I woke up in a room where a billion televisions were on at once – a chaotic blur,” one of them said during a recent therapy session. Another confessed to ‘strict parents’ who tended…
NEW DELHI: Over 70% of 40.7 crore vehicles, mostly two-wheelers, in the country do not comply with some or other norm, such as those related to pollution under control (PUC) certificate, fitness certificate or insurance, according to road transport ministry data.The data, shared with states and UTs in a meeting last week, showed over two-thirds…
Courts and state govts have banned Chinese manja but enforcement has struggled to keep pace with demand VARANASI/HYDERABAD/BIDAR: Razor-sharp Chinese manja – glass-coated kite string, banned but still widely used – sliced through necks and faces Wednesday, killing at least three people in UP, Telangana and Karnataka while injuring well over 100 across states as…
NEW DELHI: The Indian Railways has told the Central Information Commission (CIC) that the classification and methodology of fixing fares of different classes in passenger train falls in the domain of “trade secret/intellectual property rights”, and therefore, cannot be disclosed under the Right to Information Act.This was disclosed while the CIC dismissed an application seeking…
JAMMU: Security forces on Wednesday intensified the ongoing anti-terror operation in Najote village in J&K’s Kathua district by extending the cordon to at least a dozen surrounding villages, officials said. Yet another such operation was launched in Rajbagh, also in Kathua, after a resident reported sighting two terror suspects.The cordon-and-search operation in Najote was launched…
SRINAGAR: Former J&K chief minister and PDP Mehbooba Mufti on Wednesday denounced what she called “profiling of mosques” by police, saying it amounted to interference in religious affairs and was an attempt to humiliate Kashmiri Muslims. It’s Hindu temples that needed to be “profiled”, she said.“If religious places are to be profiled, then start with…
NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday slammed the Assam Congress unit over its now-deleted Bihu post showing an AI-generated image of the state BJP headquarters on fire.The BJP Assam unit shared the screenshot and warned that deleting the post would not “nullify” what the grand old party was “trying to imply”. “Deleting the…
