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NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday met Cristiano R Amon, President and CEO of Qualcomm, and discussed India’s advancements in artificial intelligence, innovation, and skilling.The Prime Minister expressed appreciation for Qualcomm’s commitment towards India’s Semiconductor and AI Missions. He noted that India offers unmatched talent and scale to build technologies that will shape…
NEW DELHI: After days of hectic parleys and hard bargaining by allies, NDA is said to have reached an agreement with its constituents for Bihar polls, and a formal announcement is likely on Sunday. The BJP central election committee (CEC) is set to finalise its candidates at a meeting on Sunday, in the presence of…
Last year in May, when Ramjit Yadav, a man accused of killing his wife, walked out of UP‘s Azamgarh jail on bail, he took with him the jail’s chequebook. Within months, he stole Rs 30 lakh, from the prison’s bank account operated by jail superintendent Aditya Kumar Singh, reports Rajeev Dikshit. The con came to…
No role in Taliban presser that kept women out NEW DELHI: Amid a growing controversy over absence of women journalists from a press meet of visiting Afghan foreign minister Amir Khan Muttaqi on Friday, Taliban head of political office Suhail Shaheen on Saturday denied allegations that women scribes were deliberately kept out. “It was done…
CHANDIGARH: In the strongest commitment yet of action in the alleged suicide of senior IPS officer Y Puran Kumar, Haryana chief minister Nayab Singh Saini warned on Saturday that no one will be spared, “no matter how influential”. The CM’s statement came hours after Rohtak SP Narendra Bijarniya was removed from his post. Bijarniya has…
NEW DELHI: Notorious fugitive gangster Rashid Cablewala, who has been linked to several murders in Delhi, was detained in Azerbaijan on arriving from Istanbul, sources confirmed, with Indian intelligence agencies now gearing up to bring him back, reports Rajshekhar Jha.It is unclear whether he was imprisoned there or kept under surveillance post-bond. Cablewala, who is…
DEHRADUN: In what is being termed an unprecedented series of recusals, another judge has decided to withdraw from a case involving Uttarakhand-cadre Indian Forest Service officer Sanjiv Chaturvedi. Justice Alok Verma of the Uttarakhand high court became the 16th judge to recuse from Chaturvedi’s case, and the second one within a fortnight. Verma’s recusal order,…
DURGAPURA: A second-year MBBS student (23) of a private medical college in Bengal’s Durgapur was allegedly gang-raped by four to five unidentified men Friday, shortly after she stepped out for dinner with a classmate, reports Mohammad Asif. Police have detained the classmate after the survivor’s parents, from Odisha’s Balasore, alleged he and his associates were…
NEW DELHI: Chief Justice B R Gavai on Saturday said despite constitutional guarantees, many girls continue to be tragically denied their fundamental rights and even basic necessities for survival and face harmful practices like female genital mutilation (FGM). Interestingly, a PIL challenging the validity of FGM, practised among certain Muslims, is pending before a ninejudge…
NEW DELHI: The ED late on Friday arrested Reliance Power’s chief financial officer Ashok Pal after questioning him at its headquarters here in a case of fake bank guarantee. He was produced before a court here on Saturday and remanded in two days of ED custody. Pal, the CFO of Reliance Power Limited (RPL), an…
