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Lao officials say they don’t have enough evidence to lay charges over the deaths of two young Australian women, because autopsies were not carried out. They have given one of their first detailed accounts of the investigation into the deaths of six people, including 19-year-old Australians Holly Morton-Bowles and Bianca Jones. The two young women…
Delhi Police shifted activist Sonam Wangchuk to a hospital early on Saturday (PTI Photo/Salman Ali) NEW DELHI: “Let his life be saved,” former Chief Justice of India Justice (retd.) KG Balakrishnan remarked on climate activist Sonam Wangchuk, who was “forcibly” removed from Delhi’s Jantar Mantar and taken to a hospital by police on Saturday after…
File photo: Union minister Kiren Rijiju and rebel TMC MP Kakoli Ghosh NEW DELHI: Union parliamentary affairs minister Kiren Rijiju has invited rebel Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Sudip Bandyopadhyay and 19 other Lok Sabha MPs, who have joined the National Citizens Party of India (NCPI), to attend the customary all-party meeting ahead of the Monsoon…
Delhi police have had to intervene to forcibly move a prominent activist to a hospital after a 20-day hunger strike in protest against India’s education system. Sonam Wangchuk began fasting last month in solidarity with India’s youth Cockroach Janta Party (CJP). He had demanded the resignation of India’s education minister, Dharmendra Pradhan, over an examination…
‘Babua woke up at noon, hit the gym by 5’: Yogi Adityanath’s swipe at Akhilesh Yadav’s tenure as UP CM NEW DELHI: Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday took an apparent swipe at Samajwadi Party supremo Akhilesh Yadav, saying ‘Babua’ would wake up at noon and be at the gym by 5 pm…
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Mehbooba Mufti (File photo/PTI) NEW DELHI: Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chief Mehbooba Mufti on Saturday agreed to join rival National Conference’s (NC) July 20 protest in Delhi seeking statehood for Jammu and Kashmir but on the condition that the agenda also includes other key issues.Mufti demanded that the protest also cover issues such as the…
Eight people have been killed and more than 60 others were wounded in Russia by overnight Ukrainian drone attacks, according to Russian officials. Two sprawling warehouses of Russia’s major online retailer, Wildberries, were hit by Ukrainian drones overnight, Moscow says. One was struck in the town of Kotovsk in the Tambov region, some 360 kilometres…
Abhishek Banerjee says he’ll quit if TMC rebels return Trinamool Congress leader Abhishek Banerjee on Saturday challenged former party colleagues who had quit the TMC and were now criticising him to return to TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee.“Those who left the party and are now abusing or blaming me today… I challenge them to return to…
PM Modi congratulated Skyroot Aerospace after its Vikram-1 rocket successfully carried six payloads into orbit, marking India’s first private orbital launch. Authorities demolished a TMC office linked to Abhishek Banerjee in West Bengal, alleging it was built in violation of building regulations. Rahul Gandhi criticised the removal of Sonam Wangchuk from his hunger strike site,…