TOI correspondent from Washington: Hell hath no fury like Donald Trump scorned. Norway has suddenly been reduced from a desirable source of immigrants to a “shithouse country”; comedian Bill Maher has received a 1,324-word dressing-down worthy of a bitter divorce petition. And somewhere in the increasingly tiresome presidential tirades, 11 downed aircraft and 30 million…
NEW DELHI: The ruling Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) on Monday labelled the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) an “evil force” following the arrest of DMK leader and former Tamil Nadu school education minister Anbil Mahesh Poyyamozhi in connection with an alleged Rs 100-crore scam.The Chennai Police’s Central Crime Branch (CCB) arrested Poyyamozhi over alleged irregularities in…
The FIR also alleges that people who were neither students nor university employees entered the campus, defaced walls with objectionable graffiti, damaged property and manhandled university employees, leaving some injured. NEW DELHI: Breaking a university gate lock, scaling a boundary wall and allegedly damaging campus property. These are among the incidents cited in an FIR…
Haddad’s rescue earned him a rare national honour, marking a historic first for New Jersey’s ROTC programme. Heroism sometimes begins with a simple decision: to stop when others might keep moving. For Joshua Haddad, a New Jersey teenager returning home from church with his family, that moment came beside a wrecked vehicle on a South…
Congress will hold ‘vote bachao, desh bachao’ rally on Nov 1 in Delhi, while Amit Shah will attend the ‘loktantra bachao, arajakta hatao’ padayatra on Nov 2 in Telangana NEW DELHI: The Congress will hold a ‘Vote Bachao, Desh Bachao’ mega rally at Ramlila Maidan in New Delhi on November 1, party president Mallikarjun Kharge…
Vessels in the Strait of Hormuz near the beach of Bandar Abbas, Iran (Reuters) Myanmar allegedly disguised Iranian jet fuel as South African diesel to bypass US sanctions, using trade contracts and import documents that misrepresented the cargo’s origin and nature, a Reuters investigation has found.According to Reuters report, a December 2025 shipment of around…
Israel set to vote for the first time since Oct 7 attack; Netanyahu faces major test Israel is set to vote on Tuesday, marking its first national election since Hamas’ October 7, 2023, attack, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s leadership, security record and political future at the centre of the campaign.Voters are weighing his handling…
The ruling affirmed homeowners’ right to timely ADU approvals under California’s streamlined permitting laws. Adding a second home on an existing residential property is often presented as one of California’s simplest answers to its housing shortage. But for one homeowner in Palos Verdes Estates, the effort to build an accessory dwelling unit became a years-long…
Thick smoke emanates from North Block; six fire tenders on site NEW DELHI: Thick smoke was seen billowing from the Union secretariat’s North Block here on Monday, prompting authorities to rush six fire tenders to the spot, an official said.A police officer said some repair work was underway at the building, which might have led…
For the last two decades Indian cities have been busy widening roads, building flyovers and creating signal-free corridors. Walking in Delhi, Mumbai and Bengaluru is difficult because the footpaths are broken, blocked or non-existent, and road planning has always given priority to vehicles over people. Every city has its problem — the wide and fast…
