Month: April 2025

[ad_1] SILCHAR: A protest against the Waqf Act turned violent in Silchar of Assam's Cachar district Sunday after demonstrators hurled stones at police, which resorted to a cane charge to restore law and order.Muslims from Berenga, Madhurband, and Kanakpur gathered at Badri Bridge in the morning to take out a protest rally to Madhurband. When the rally reached its destination, several protesters sat on the road in Chamragudam locality, leading to an altercation with police. It was then that some protesters hurled stones at police.DM Mridul Yadav issued prohibitory orders under Section 163 of BNSS across the district in the evening.Cachar SP Numal Mahatta said, "With the model code of conduct in place for the upcoming panchayat polls, a protest march was conducted without any permission. While the rally was initially peaceful, a group of protesters breached police barricades and […]

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Indian aircraft deployed to provide rescue and relief supplies to quake-hit Myanmar, under Operation Brahma since March 29, have faced cyber-attacks in the form of "spoofing" of their satellite-based GPS signals.Sources said it's difficult to establish the forces behind the GPS spoofing of IAF aircraft in the airspace of Myanmar, where China has made major strategic inroads and non-state militant outfits are active against the country's regime."GPS spoofing, which usually misleads pilots about their location with wrong coordinates, is common in operational areas. The IAF pilots in Myanmar switched over to the backup inertial navigation system (INS), which is very accurate with the latest ring-laser gyroscopes, to complete their missions," a source told TOI.Soon after the earthquake hit Myanmar, India had dispatched its first C-130J 'Super Hercules' aircraft, with 15 tonnes of relief material, from Hindon airbase […]

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: US President Donald Trump's reciprocal tariff policy could significantly drive up freight rates for Indian exporters, fuelled by front-loading of orders amid a volatile and uncertain global trade environment.With the 90-day tariff pause on imports from India, freight rates could see an initial double-digit spike as exporters rush to book consignments, industry experts said. This increase, adding to India Inc's cost burden, could mirror global trends, where freight rates rose 3% to $2,265 per 40-feet container (as per Drewry's World Container Index) last week.On April 9, Trump announced a 90-day pause on reciprocal tariffs, lowering them to 10% for several countries, including India, but excluding China. Ajay Sahai, DG and CEO of the Federation of Indian Export Organisations, told TOI: "The exporters' rush to ship consignments before the 90-day deadline is expected to lead to a double-digit […]

[ad_1] MUMBAI: Bombay high court has observed that there is nothing wrong if parents of two disabled children want to adopt a third, normal child, and directed the authorities to consider a Mumbai couple's plea afresh in six weeks, reports Swati Deshpande.The court quashed a 2023 decision by the Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) disallowing the couple's plea to adopt a third child as they already had two children. CARA invoked its 2023 executive order that disentitled the adoption of a normal child when prospective adoptive parents already had two biological children. The couple said both their kids, born in 2014 and 2019, fell under the Persons with Disabilities Act. A couple with two disabled children can pursue adoption of a third, normal child, Bombay HC has ruled. "There is nothing wrong if they are looking for a new hope […]

[ad_1] Marrying a US citizen or green card holder once meant you had a smooth one-way ticket to the American Dream. But newlywed spouses can no longer expect to just hop on to a flight with a heart full of hope and a suitcase full of namkeen. The days of waived interviews and easy approvals under the Biden administration are over - one more casualty of the Trump regime's crackdown on suspected immigration fraud. Instead, each case will now be subjected to vetting.While there was always a waiting period involved, the first step is tackling the interview - which only got tougher. If the spouse (say wife) is in India, the interview will be conducted by US consulate officials.If the spouse is already in US, say on a non-immigrant H-1B work visa, after marriage, they can apply for a green […]

[ad_1] COIMBATORE: A special team of city police on Saturday nabbed pastor D John Jebaraj, 37, from his hideout in Munnar, a hill retreat in Kerala, for sexually assaulting two minor girls at his residence a year ago.The pastor, who was running King Generation Prayer Hall on Cross Cut Road in the city, has done several Christian concerts across India.According to the Central all-woman police in the city, the pastor sexually assaulted two girls aged 17 and 14 years at a party that he hosted at his residence in GN Mills area in the city on May 21, 2024. However, the incident did not come to light for the past 11 months."Earlier this month, one of the girls told her family members about the incident and they approached us. We received a complaint from the girl on April 5 and […]

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: A bitter school rivalry culminated in tragedy in southeast Delhi's Govindpuri area when a 17-year-old boy was fatally stabbed by three 16-year-old boys, police said. The accused teenagers alleged that the victim subjected them to repeated physical assault and issued ominous threats against them and their families.The long-simmering feud reached a threshold when the victim summoned the boys to Okhla Estate Road on Saturday, purportedly to resolve the dispute. In a shocking display of violence, one juvenile allegedly restrained the victim while the other two stabbed him multiple times with knives, police said.Police said they apprehended the suspects within 24 hours, retrieving the knives used in the crime. Investigation suggests that the attack was premeditated.According to police, they received a PCR call at 9.45 pm from a relative of the deceased, reporting that his nephew was attacked […]

[ad_1] Surgeons removed a genetically engineered pig's kidney from an Alabama woman after she experienced acute organ rejection, NYU Langone Health officials said Friday.Towana Looney, 53, lived with the kidney for 130 days, which is longer than anyone else has tolerated an organ from a genetically modified animal. She has resumed dialysis, hospital officials said.Dr Robert Montgomery, Looney's surgeon and the director of the NYU Langone Transplant Institute, said that the so-called explant was not a setback for the field of xenotransplantation. "This is the longest one of these organs has lasted," he said in an interview. "All this takes time," he said. "This game is going to be won by incremental improvements, singles and doubles, not trying to swing for the fences and get a home run." nyt [ad_2] Source link