KOLKATA: Three employees at the Indian IT office of a global telecom major were arrested on Saturday for their involvement in the alleged gang-rape of a colleague during a party at a housing complex in New Town's Action Area III on Friday night. The 28-year-old survivor, who also lives in New Town, lodged a complaint at the Techno City police station on Saturday morning. DC (New Town Zone) Manav Singla...
Can former US President Donald Trump, who is in the reckoning to be the Republican candidate for next year's White House race, be elected as the Speaker of the House of Representatives?What are the legal provisions and what tradition says about Trump being eligible to contest the Speaker election? The US Constitution does not explicitly mandate that the position must be filled by an elected House...
WASHINGTON: Speaker Kevin McCarthy was voted out of the job in an extraordinary showdown, a first in US history that was forced by a contingent of hard-right conservatives and threw the House and its Republican leadership into chaos. McCarthy's chief rival, Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida, forced the vote on the "motion to vacate," drawing together more than a handful of conservative Republican critics of...
WASHINGTON: Indian-Americans have made a mark for themselves in the US and under president Joe Biden the community members are throughout the administration, a top White House official has said. "We have such a strong person-to-person, community-to-community leader relationship based on the strength of the diaspora," Neera Tanden, the Director of the United States Domestic Policy Council, said on...
NEW DELHI: Launching a criminal investigation into the allegations of corruption in the construction of a new residential building for chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, the CBI is learned to have registered a preliminary enquiry (PE) to probe the alleged “irregularities and misconduct” by yet-to-be identified public servants of the Delhi government.The probe agency has asked PWD of the Delhi...
NEW DELHI: Constructing residential buildings in south and east Delhi may soon get costlier as the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) plans to levy "compensatory regulatory charges", a fee that was earlier only imposed in north Delhi so far by the erstwhile north corporation.The proposed fee would be calculated keeping in mind the built-up area of new residential buildings or new constructions done to...
KOLKATA: Indian Coffee House on Jadavpur Central Road shut down on Friday following a fracas between some customers and the cooperative society of workers that runs the establishment. According to a member of the society, a notice was issued on August 21 requesting regulars not to occupy seats and use laptops for long hours. This was challenged by regulars on the grounds that it had no legal validity....
FARIDABAD: An 18-year-old class 12 student was stabbed to death while he was sleeping in his house in Sanjay colony in Haryana’s Faridabad, police said on Tuesday. Hearing him scream, the younger brother of the victim woke up and tried to chase the assailant but lost him, PTI quoted police as saying.According to a complaint filed by the victim's father, Santosh Bhagat, Vishal, his elder son, was...
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