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TOI Correspondent from Washington: MAGA supremo Donald Trump deployed 700 US marines to Los Angeles on Monday in addition to 4000 National Guard to quell spluttering protests against immigration raids even as he prepared to take the salute at a military parade in Washington to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the US Army on Saturday, which also happens to be his 79th birthday. Optics of the twin developments suggested the possible onset of authoritarian rule in America that Trump has long expressed a liking for, particularly since protests against the strong-arm methods employed by heavy-handed immigration authorities were said to…
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NEW DELHI/BENGALURU: Congress decided Tuesday to undertake a fresh caste survey in Karnataka, citing rumblings within the state’s dominant communities about the reliability of the 2015 enumeration data, and asking CM Siddaramaiah and his deputy DK Shivakumar to target a 60- to 80-day timeframe for the exercise.Sources said the immediate incentive for the Congress brass to push the exercise was to deliver something that would potentially take the heat off the Siddaramaiah govt amid an accountability crisis in the aftermath of the June 4 Bengaluru stampede in which 11 cricket fans died.Also read: Congress top brass raps state unit for…
Genelia D’Souza, who is gearing up for the release of Sitaare Zameen Par alongside Aamir Khan, recently opened up about Virat Kohli’s historic IPL 2025 win and the powerful emotions surrounding it. Speaking to Filmygyan, the actress praised Virat’s gesture of acknowledging his longtime teammates AB de Villiers and Chris Gayle.“It was very special to see Virat win after 18 years and see the camaraderie. I think teamwork is the most important,” she shared. “The fact that Virat went to De Villiers and Chris Gayle and said, ‘these people fought for 18 years’—I mean, these are moments that, as an…
NEW DELHI: NEET-UG 2025, held on May 4, was conducted securely, thanks to enhanced security measures put in place by ministry of education, in coordination with state authorities. However, students and parents/guardians have raised serious concerns over errors in the question paper and delays in redressal of grievances, urging National Testing Agency (NTA) to respond quickly.The results are expected later this month. NEET-UG remains the gateway for over 20 lakh students aspiring to get into MBBS, BDS, and other UG medical courses.In Sikar and Gujarat, candidates received faulty booklets with jumbled page numbers. For example, students who received Paper Code…
CAPE CANAVERAL (FLORIDA): The rescheduled launch of Shubhanshu Shukla-piloted Axiom-4 mission remained unchanged at 5.30pm IST on Wednesday after a ‘weather call’ taken at Kennedy Space Centre on Tuesday (8pm IST). However, the weather continues to be a key variable as the stakeholders will take a final call after the ‘L-8 hour weather briefing’, scheduled around midnight in US (around 10am IST).At the mission readiness review briefing, Jimmy Taeger, launch weather officer with 45th Weather Squadron of US Space Force, said conditions across central Florida is being shaped by a high-pressure system to the southeast. The system is expected to…
MYSURU: Enforcement Directorate, which is probing the alleged Mysore urban development authority site scam, has attached 92 properties in Muda-developed layouts collectively valued at Rs 100 crore. Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah and family were under the scanner in the alleged scam as the CM’s wife, Parvathi, had been allotted 14 sites in fashionable layouts in Mysuru in a land-swap deal for three acres and 16 guntas under the 50:50 scheme. After a controversy erupted, she returned the sites to Muda. A Lokayukta probe had cleared the CM in the alleged case.Earlier, about 160 sites, worth Rs 300 crore, had been attached,…
Three months ago, President Trump urged House Republicans to “immediately” fix a $1.1 billion budget hole they forced on Washington, D.C. This week, the lawmakers have instead advanced bills to impose their policy agenda on the city’s Democrat-led government — without addressing the funding shortfall.The House passed two bills on Tuesday to undo local legislation passed by the district’s government: one to repeal a law letting noncitizens vote in local elections and another removing provisions that make it easier to discipline police officers for misconduct.A third bill, slated for a vote later this week, would bar the district from passing…
Donald Trump chose criminal deportation, law and order, and tough-on-crime. California Democrats chose lawsuits and states’ rights. Who do you think won this latest round? I’d say Trump 10-Democrats 0. It’s just hard to believe that removing illegal alien criminals who have committed sexual assault and murders would be attacked by one of our two major political parties. But that’s the state of play among Democrats. Shame on California Governor Gavin Newsom in particular.And good for Senator John Fetterman for being just about the only Democrat to stand up and say that while peaceful free speech is good, violent protests…
MUMBAI: More than 24 hours after the Monday morning rush hour Mumbra tragedy in which four commuters died and nine others were injured — some after falling off two passing local trains and others while inside the compartment — Central Railway (CR) is still to conclusively determine what led to the unprecedented accident on the city’s suburban railway network, reports Manthan K Mehta. In the absence of clear CCTV footage or inconclusive eyewitness accounts, the cause remains a mystery.CR on Tuesday set up a five-member committee of senior officials to investigate, but did not specify a deadline. They will examine…
LightShed Ventures Partner Rich Greenfield breaks down claims by President Donald Trump that CBS’ ’60 Minutes’ deceptively edited Kamala Harris’ interview on ‘The Claman Countdown.’ Paramount Global is trimming its U.S. workforce by 3.5% in a move to cut costs. The company’s plans to cut jobs were announced Tuesday by its three co-CEOs in a company-wide memo viewed by FOX Business.Co-CEOs George Cheeks, Chris McCarthy and Brian Robbins said in the message that Paramount was “taking the hard, but necessary steps to further streamline our organization this week.” An image of a woman holding a cellphone in front of the…
Singer Rahul Vaidya recently found himself at the centre of controversy following remarks he made about cricketer Virat Kohli. Rahul took a dig at Virat after the latter blamed an ‘algorithm’ for liking actress Avneet Kaur’s photoshoot and questioned why he had previously blocked him on Instagram. Rahul’s Instagram video offended many of Virat’s fans, including his brother Vikas Kohli, who criticised the singer.Rahul about Vikas Kohli’s remarkIn a recent conversation with Instant Bollywood, Rahul revealed that Vikas Kohli had reached out to him and asked why he was unnecessarily bringing up his brother’s name.Rahul Vaidya and Disha Parmar Spotted…
PUNE: Monsoon is poised to resume its northward march after a 13-day pause since May 29, both IMD and private forecaster Skymet Weather Services said on Tuesday.Currently anchored over Mumbai in the west and Sikkim-Sub Himalayan West Bengal in the east, the monsoon stream is expected to gain momentum due to the weather systems over the Bay of Bengal. Skymet president GP Sharma said two successive monsoon systems (one of which is likely to form later) over the Bay of Bengal, may revitalise rainfall in regions where the monsoon has already arrived and push it into new areas. An IMD…
Veteran actor Govind Namdev has finally addressed the dating rumours swirling around him and actress Shivangi Verma after a photograph of the two together went viral. In an exclusive conversation with ETimes, the 70-year-old actor set the record straight, revealing that the photo in question was part of a professional publicity strategy for their upcoming film Gaurishankar Goharganj Wale.“When the film was being prepared, we had a discussion with the director, producer, and Shivangi about planning a strong publicity strategy. I agreed that it was necessary. We’d already shot several scenes, done morning exercises together, and clicked some good photographs,”…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court Tuesday refused leniency to an advocate, sentencing him to 18 months imprisonment for using abusive language in 2015 to outrage the modesty of a judicial officer in a Delhi courtroom and rejected his plea for reducing the jail term to the six months already undergone, reports Dhananjay Mahapatra.The advocate, Sanjay Rathod, pleaded with the partial working day bench of Justices Prashant Kumar Mishra and Manmohan that he was the sole breadwinner of the family comprising his old parents, wife and two children and that he was remorseful about the incident. The bench said the Delhi HC…
The Justice Department has closed about half of its open investigations into bribery by U.S. businesses overseas, but plans to initiate prosecutions to more narrowly focus on misconduct that hurts the country’s capacity to compete with foreign companies, officials said on Tuesday.President Trump signed an executive order in February pausing all of the department’s investigations under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, pending a review of enforcement policies by Todd Blanche, the department’s No. 2 official.Good government groups criticized the freeze as the elimination of guardrails needed to prevent corporate abuses. The move coincided with the closing of investigations into the…
Aamir Khan is currently busy promoting his much-awaited release ‘Sitaare Zameen Par’, and the actor has now shared details about his upcoming film with Tamil filmmaker Lokesh Kanagaraj.Team-Up with Lokesh Kanagaraj ConfirmedIn a recent interview with Just Too Filmy, Aamir revealed plans for his highly anticipated superhero film with Lokesh. While fans were eager to know when the project would begin, Aamir said, “Lokesh and I are doing a film together. Yeh film agle saal banegi. He is right now going to shoot Kaithi 2. So, next year, August–September, we will start.”Aamir Khan Defends Son Junaid Khan Against Nepotism Claims…
NEW DELHI: Even as India’s fertility rate is declining, many people in India, especially women, still face significant barriers to making free and informed decisions about their reproductive lives, says the UN Population Fund’s State of World Population Report released Tuesday. These barriers create what the report identified as India’s “high fertility and low fertility duality”.The fertility rate has come down from nearly five children per woman in 1970 to about two, courtesy improved education and access to reproductive healthcare. The TFR fell below the replacement level rate to 2.0 for the first time in the National Family Health Survey…
Who wants to lead the Department of Government Efficiency?With the departure of Elon Musk and his right-hand man Steve Davis from government, administration officials and members of the controversial cost-cutting effort have been in detailed discussions this week about who will functionally be in charge of it, according to four people familiar with the talks.Debate about who should take charge has spread through the White House, DOGE and Silicon Valley. In the first days after Mr. Musk’s departure, it centered on the billionaire Joe Gebbia, one of Mr. Musk’s close friends and a board member at his automaker, Tesla.Mr. Gebbia…
Gayatri Oberoi, known for her role in Swades, has re-emerged, showcasing her design expertise in her family’s real estate ventures. She offers a tour of her luxurious Mumbai residence, blending Indian materials with European design. Despite a tragic car accident in Italy last year, Gayatri’s passion for design and family remains evident. Nearly two decades after she lit up the screen alongside Shah Rukh Khan in Swades, Gayatri Oberoi is back in the public eye—but in a very different role. The former actor, who stepped away from Bollywood after just one film, now leads a quiet yet influential life as…
As the Trump administration clamped down on the country’s medical research funding apparatus in recent months, scientists and administrators at the National Institutes of Health often privately wondered how much autonomy the agency’s director, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, had.After all, the Department of Government Efficiency, Elon Musk’s signature cost-cutting project, helped drive decisions to cancel or delay research grants. Other projects fell victim to President Trump’s face-off with universities over antisemitism. But given an opportunity before a Senate panel on Tuesday to dispel suspicions about who wields influence at the N.I.H., Dr. Bhattacharya did little to claim ownership of perhaps the…
LUCKNOW: Sonam Raghuvanshi paid Rs 50,000 to her alleged lover, Raj Kushwaha, to facilitate his and the three other accused people’s travel to Shillong and monitor her movements along with her husband Raja Raghuvanshi, police said, quoting the confession of two of the arrested accused.Raj Kushwaha, along with Vishal Singh, Anand Kurmi, and Akash Rajput, first boarded a train from Indore to Delhi between May 17 and 18 and then took Rajdhani Express from Delhi to Guwahati. Their travel preceded Raja and Sonam’s honeymoon to Shillong for which they took a flight from Indore on May 20.Throughout this duration, Raj…
The Environmental Protection Agency plans to weaken a Biden-era regulation that required power plants to slash pollutants, including the emissions of mercury, a neurotoxin that impairs brain development, according to an internal agency document.Lee Zeldin, the E.P.A. administrator, intends to announce the proposed changes within days, according to two people who have been briefed on the agency’s plans. Mr. Zeldin also will release a separate proposal to eliminate limits on greenhouse gases from power plants, according to the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss agency plans.Together, the changes represent a repudiation…
