NEW DELHI: CJP members Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka have been sent to five days of judicial custody, while Ajinkya Shinde has been bound down, after 14 party members allegedly trespassed into Jantar Mantar, which is no longer a designated protest venue, and obstructed cops on duty. Bound down means an individual has to appear…
Elon Musk on Wednesday denied Ukraine’s allegation that SpaceX had disrupted its military drone operations by restricting access to its Starlink satellite internet service without warning, saying any limits were imposed by the US government and not the company.“Starshield systems are owned and controlled by the US government. Any limits on speed or usage are…
NEW DELHI: Starlink is yet to receive clearance to launch services in India as it has not agreed to comply with regulations requiring satellite internet providers to set up domestic infrastructure, a senior govt official said Wednesday, sending a tough message to tech trillionaire Elon Musk that in order to do business in India he…
Unruly elements from TMC are infiltrating into BJP in Bengal and spoiling its image, RSS’s Bengali weekly ‘Swastika’ said, advising the party to get rid of the “garbage”. This comes amid allegations of BJP workers engaging in “anti-party activities” and extortions. Warning senior party functionaries of “rowdies” trying to make their way into the party,…
NEW DELHI: Govt and LIC will sell a combined 60.7% in IDBI Bank for Rs 52,878 crore to an arm of Fairfax Financial Holdings, which is controlled by Canadian billionaire Prem Watsa, that will result in the largest-ever financial sector FDI in the country. The transaction will help govt scale the disinvestment and asset monetisation…
(left)Vicky Popat and (Right)Mickey Popat. Image Credit: PlantOGram/Entrepreneur Mickey and Vicky Popat turned a shared love of gardening into PlantOGram, a fruit-tree gifting company that generated $4.2 million in annual revenue in 2024. The Florida-based couple began with a modest investment, selling their luxury belongings to purchase a used van and take their business idea…
File photo: US secretary of state Marco Rubio is set to visit Mumbai and Jamnagar from October 17-22 US Secretary of State Marco Rubio will travel next week to Mumbai and Gujarat’s refinery hub Jamnagar, announced the State Department. The brief stopover in Jamnagar, which will see him touring the Reliance oil refinery, is being…
Anti-government protests erupt in Albania Albania’s capital, Tirana, witnessed a fresh outbreak of violence on Wednesday as student protesters clashed with police, vehicles burned and the Education Ministry caught fire during demonstrations over education costs, university conditions and alleged government corruption.Police used tear gas and water cannons to disperse crowds, as the student-led protests fed…
Katie Zacharia’s opening intonation of Trump achievements — from jobs and drug prices to oil deals and naval construction — evoked comparisons to a malfunctioning voice assistant TOI Correspondent from Washington: For a White House that treats politics as a television spectacle and television as a political show, Donald Trump‘s press secretaries have often looked…
Ukrainian officials and commentators are alleging that the Starlink restrictions might be connected to Washington’s pressure on Ukraine to halt strikes TOI Correspondent from Washington: The raging debate in India over Elon Musk’s bid to muscle Starlink into the country has received a cautionary call after Ukraine reported on Wednesday that its military units suffered…
