MUMBAI: Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani received two death threat emails two days in a row. On Friday, he got an email saying: "If you don't give us Rs 20 crore, we will kill you. We have the best shooters in India." Ambanireceived another death threat from the same account Saturday. This time the sender demanded Rs 200 crore, saying the amount had been increased due to "non-response to the...
NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court has sought the Centre's stand on a plea to permit the mother of a woman from Kerala, who is facing the death penalty in Yemenfor the murder of a national, to travel to the country to save her daughter from gallows. Justice Subramonium Prasad asked the Centre's counsel to file a status report within two weeks and listed the matter for further hearing on November 16. The...
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday distributed over 51,000 appointment letters to recruits under his government's Rozgar Mela drive, though video-conferencing.The Rozgar Mela will be held at 37 locations across the country. A statement said recruitments are taking place across central government departments as well as in those states and UTs supporting the initiative.Recruits will join...
LONDON: A 24-year-old Indian man from Hyderabad has pleaded guilty to attempting to murder a student from Kerala working as a part-time waitress in a Hyderabadi biryani restaurant in East London.Sriram Ambarla, of no fixed abode, an Indian national, appeared at the Old Bailey on Friday. He choked and almost collapsed when he stood to enter his plea. He had to be given water and was allowed to sit down...
MUMBAI: A four-year-old video shared by BJP on social media of deputy chief minister Devendra Fadnavis saying he will return to helm the state has rocked the political and bureaucratic circles."I will return for building a new Maharashtra," the state BJP posted on Friday on X, along with the video. The post was deleted a few hours later after BJP leadership took objection over the content on the grounds...
KOLKATA: What to eat in Kolkata is a gastronomic fantasy. What not to eat wasn't food for thought until Durga Puja organisers found 600-odd chemical-laced decorative phuchkas, the city's famed version of golgappas, missing from their pandal's decor.Behala Natun Dal alerted police this week to the phuchka pilferage, fearful of the possibility of people who made off with the globules coming to harm after...
NEW DELHI/LUCKNOW: The idol of Ram Lalla will be installed on January 22 at the Ayodhya temple in the presence of PM Narendra Modi, capping decades of efforts, including the largest mass mobilisation post-Independence and a hard-fought legal battle, to reclaim the site. This could potentially set the stage for a long spell of celebrations.Although January 22 had been speculated to be among the probable...
NEW DELHI: BJP MP Nishikant Dubey on Wednesday took a fresh dig at TMC's Mahua Moitra and said that the question is no more about his degree but about the dignity of Parliament and the security of the country. Dubey, in a post on X (formerly Twitter), said it is for Mahua to answer whether NIC mails were accessed in Dubai or not and if questions were asked in exchange for money. "The question is about...
NEW DELHI: India will record the highest growth in demand for energy among countries or regions over the next three decades, with power consumption for running household air conditioners alone rising nine-fold by 2050 to outstrip the present-day consumption in Africa, according to the International Energy Agency.Winter is Coming: Delhi's air quality dips to 'Poor' as AQI rises to 266In its World Energy...
In any assessment of a nation's socio-economic progress, the health and well-being of its women and children is paramount. Undernutrition is not merely a health concern, it is fundamentally an economic and human capital issue with profound implications for a country's development and future.Milk bank in Melghat saving infants from malnutritionRecognising this, the Indian government is implementing the...
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