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New Delhi, July 14 The Foreign Office here took umbrage over the US Consulate General in Mumbai writing directly to the Mumbai Port Authority last month asking it not to allow Russian vessels to dock because of American sanctions against Russia. “The appropriate channel is through the MEA and the…

Karachi, July 14In a gruesome incident, a Pakistani man has allegedly killed and boiled his wife in a cauldron in front of his six children here in the country’s Sindh province, a media report said on Thursday.Police on Wednesday found Nargis’s body in a cauldron in the kitchen of a…

Aman Sood Patiala, July 14 A Patiala court on Thursday dismissed the appeal filed by singer Daler Mehndi against his two-year jail sentence in a human trafficking case registered against him in 2003. Mehndi, who was present in the court, was arrested and sent to jail. Daler Mehndi and his…

Chandigarh/Jalandhar, July 14 The Punjab police on Thursday arrested 13 more associates, including nine sharpshooters of the inter-state gangs backed by gangsters Lawrence Bishnoi and Harwinder Rinda, said Inspector-General of Police Headquarters Sukhchain Singh Gill. The Jalandhar rural police chased down the accused after a two-week-long operation led by special…

Aditi Tandon New Delhi, July 14 With the opposition Congress and the TMC outraging over alleged censorship of Parliament with reference to a compendium of unparliamentary words published by the Lok Sabha Secretariat on Wednesday, government sources have now reacted saying it’s a case of much ado about nothing. Most…

New Delhi, July 14 Attorney General K K Venugopal has refused sanction to initiate contempt proceedings against former Delhi High Court judge S N Dhingra and two others for criticising the Supreme Court over its oral observations against suspended BJP leader Nupur Sharma. In a letter, advocate C R Jaya…

New Delhi, July 14 Attorney General KK Venugopal has refused to give his consent to initiate contempt proceedings against former Delhi High Court judge SN Dhingra and two senior lawyers for criticising the Supreme Court judges who said suspended BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma was responsible for the violence that followed…

Chandigarh, July 14 Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli are two important cogs in the batting wheel of Team India. Both are supremely talented and fans don’t tire of comparing the two legends. This time, the comparison has come from a cricketer from across the border. Pakistan’s opening batter Imam-ul-Haq thinks…

Colombo, July 14 Sri Lankan Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena on Thursday informed Gotabaya Rajapaksa that he should submit his letter of resignation as the President as soon as possible or else he would consider other options to remove him from office, according to a media report. The Parliament Speaker said…

New Delhi, July 14 The Supreme Court agreed to hear on Friday the plea of an editor of a TV news channel challenging the summons issued to him for playing a doctored clip of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi during the telecast of a programme on July 1. A bench comprising…

Thiruvananthapuram, July 14 A man who returned from abroad has been admitted to a hospital in Kerala after he showed symptoms of monkeypox, state Health Minister Veena George said here on Thursday. The minister said his samples had been sent to the National Institute of Virology for testing. She said…

Chandigarh, July 14 The Consulate General of India, Toronto, has expressed hurt at the desecration of Mahatma Gandhi statue at Vishnu temple in Richmond Hill. In a tweet, it said, “We are distressed at the desecration of Mahatma Gandhi statue at Vishnu temple in Richmond Hill. This criminal, hateful act…

Colombo/Singapore, July 14 Sri Lankan president Gotabaya Rajapaksa has submitted a letter of resignation, two government sources said on Friday, after he fled to Singapore following mass protests over his country’s economic meltdown. Rajapaksa emailed a letter of resignation to the speaker of the country’s parliament late on Thursday, two…

Colombo, July 14 Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who has fled to the Maldives, could not board a scheduled Singapore Airlines flight from Male to Singapore due to security concerns and is now waiting to travel on a private aircraft, according to a media report on Thursday. Rajapaksa, the 73-year-old…

Male/Colombo, July 14 Sri Lanka’s embattled President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Thursday left the Maldives for Singapore after fleeing his country amidst the worst economic and political crisis faced by the island nation in decades. Rajapaksa has departed from the Maldives on Saudi Airline flight SV 788 to Singapore, sources said….