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[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Opposition leaders have strongly criticised Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar’s recent comments targeting the Supreme Court, accusing him of undermining the judiciary and violating constitutional norms. Dhankhar had questioned the Supreme Court’s authority under Article 142 and criticised its verdict setting timelines for presidential assent to bills, sparking sharp reactions from opposition leaders."Article 142 has become a nuclear missile against Democratic forces available to judiciary 24x7. We cannot have a situation where you direct the President of India and on what basis? The only right you have under the Constitution is to interpret the Constitution under Article 145(3). There it has to be five judges when Article 145(3) was there, the number of judges in the Supreme Court was eight, 5 out of 8, now 5 out of 30 odd more," Dhankhar had said.'No office is above the […]

[ad_1] US President Donald Trump on Friday praised Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, saying she made a "fantastic impression" during her visit to the United States.Sharing a post on Truth Social, Trump posted, "Prime Minister Georgia Meloni of Italy was great yesterday in her visit to the White House. She loves her country, and the impression she left on everyone was FANTASTIC!!!"Meloni responded on X saying, "Thank you, President Trump!" She further highlighted that Italy-US cooperation is "based on common values and a long friendship.""We will continue to work together to strengthen the bond between our peoples and to face global challenges with determination," she added.Italian media sources had earlier said that Meloni's visit partly aimed to facilitate a meeting between Trump and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.Her direct engagement with Trump occurs at a crucial time, as […]

[ad_1] Hoax bomb threat at Kanpur airport triggers panic, 21-year-old arrested NEW DELHI: Panic briefly gripped Chakeri Airport in Kanpur on Friday after a hoax call claimed a bomb had been planted on a 72-seater flight. Authorities later confirmed it was a false alarm and arrested a 21-year-old man for making the call.According to ACP Sumit Sudhakar Ramteke, an airport staff member named Satendra Singh received the threat call, in which the caller said the bomb would explode once the flight lands.Security teams, including a bomb disposal squad and an anti-sabotage check (ASC) unit, were immediately deployed to search the airport premises. However, no suspicious object was found.Local police, with help from a surveillance team, tracked down and arrested the caller, identified as Mohit Singh, a resident of Yashoda Nagar, within two hours.During interrogation, Singh admitted the threat was a […]

[ad_1] A member of Pakistan’s Ahmadiyya community was beaten to death on Friday after a mob of radical surrounded an Ahmadi place of worship in Karachi’s Saddar neighbourhood.The crowd, having many from the anti blasphemy political groupTehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), forced their way through narrow streets chanting anti-Ahmadi slogans before surrounding the colonial-era worship site. Tensions quickly escalated when the group accused the minority community of violating Pakistan’s controversial anti-Ahmadi laws.“One member of the community was killed after the mob identified him as an Ahmadi,” said Muhammad Safdar, a senior police official in Karachi. “They attacked him with sticks and bricks.”Police said members of several religious parties were part of the mob. To protect others from further violence, officers took around 25 Ahmadis into custody and moved them away in a police-escorted van after negotiating with the crowd, which had swelled […]

[ad_1] File photo of mangled remains of vehicles seen at the violence-affected Beldona area under Samsergunj PS, in Murshidabad. (Pic credit: ANI) NEW DELHI: BJP leader Amit Malviya on Friday hit out at West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, claiming that state police reports had contradicted her statements on the recent communal violence in Murshidabad. He accused Banerjee of misleading the public by blaming "outsiders" for the unrest, while police reports pointed to the involvement of locals.Mob comprised 'local youths' armed with 'deadly weapons'In a post on X, Malviya shared excerpts from police reports, saying, "The West Bengal Police has effectively debunked Home Minister Mamata Banerjee’s claims regarding the recent communal violence in Murshidabad." According to him, the police confirmed that the mob involved in the April 11 violence at Sajur More comprised "local youths" carrying "deadly weapons," including bombs, […]

[ad_1] Over a 1,000 international students have seen their legal status in the United States revoked in a sweeping move that has triggered confusion, fear, and legal action. Since late March, students enrolled at over 130 universities — including Harvard, Stanford, and the University of Maryland — have found themselves abruptly stripped of their visa rights, often without any clear explanation.The cancellations have emerged as part of a broader immigration clampdown under the Trump administration, leaving institutions scrambling to support affected students and seek answers from federal authorities. In many cases, the students were not notified directly. Instead, universities discovered the terminations by checking the Department of Homeland Security’s database, known as the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS).In response, several lawsuits have been filed against the Department of Homeland Security, with students arguing that their visas were revoked […]

[ad_1] TOI correspondent from Washington: US and China are engaged in an all-out propaganda battle to present their narrative of the tariff war and portray the other side as weak and crumbling in the face of adversity.The Chinese have cottoned on skillfully to Artificial Intelligence tools to launch a series of AI-generated videos and memes portraying Americans as obese and unhealthy, while mocking the US desire to reclaim manufacturing jobs that Trump and Co say were stolen from America.Also read: China takes a 'heavy' troll of USAThe videos suggest the Chinese now think these jobs are low-skilled and they are ready to move up the value chain, leaving Americans to do the grunt work.Several Chinese vloggers have been posting videos showing the incredible infrastructure China has built over the past two decades while the US has slid into urban degradation […]

[ad_1] Senior Advocate Kapil Sibal Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal criticised Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar for questioning the Supreme Court’s ruling that set a timeline for the President to act on state bills, calling it an intrusion into legislative supremacy. In another legal development, the Delhi high court dismissed an adultery case filed by a husband against his wife’s alleged lover, stating that treating women as a husband's property is a regressive notion, referencing Draupadi from the Mahabharat. Meanwhile, US secretary of state Marco Rubio issued an ultimatum on the Russia-Ukraine peace talks, saying the US may abandon mediation efforts if progress stalls. On the domestic front, the directorate general of civil aviation (DGCA) has launched a probe into the sudden death of Air India Express First Officer Armaan, who collapsed after landing a flight from Srinagar to Delhi. Across […]

[ad_1] TOI correspondent from Washington: The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), now with an Indian-American nationalist Kash Patel at the helm, on Thursday announced that it has arrested alleged Pakistan-backed Khalistani terrorist Harpreet Singh, wanted in India and living illegally in California. The FBI field office in Sacramento, which apprehended him, said Harpreet Singh had entered the U.S from Mexico and had been evading capture by using untraceable burner phones and encrypted applications. Agents from the FBI’s Legal Attaché office in New Delhi informed Sacramento that Singh was wanted in connection with multiple terror attacks across Punjab, the Bureau said, pointing to close cooperation between the two countries since Patel took charge of the agency. "This case reinforces the importance of international cooperation in apprehending those who threaten global security," the Bureau said, noting that Singh is suspected to […]

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: A 17-year-old boy named Kunal was fatally stabbed in north-east Delhi’s New Seelampur on Thursday evening, triggering tensions in the area. According to police, the role of a local woman named Zikra, allegedly known as the "lady don", is being investigated in connection with the murder. Kunal’s family has alleged that Zikra, who once worked as a bouncer for jailed gangster Hashim Baba's wife Zoya, was present at the scene when he was killed.“Zikra used to roam around in the area with a pistol. An incident happened with her cousin Sahil but my son was not involved in it. Yet they killed him. They brutally stabbed him multiple times,” Kunal’s mother Parveen told news agency PTI. Zikra was reportedly living with Zoya before the latter’s arrest by Delhi Police in a drug-related case. After Zoya was jailed, […]