A junior assistant from the office of Ameenpur MRO and a dharani operator were arrested for demanding and accepting a bribe of ₹30,000. Officials from the ACB said that Chakali Arun Kumar was an outsourced employee operating the Dharani portal while Manne Santosh was the junior assistant at the Ameenpur MRO office. “They were caught…
A Russian military court sentenced playwright Svetlana Petriychuk and theater director Yevgenia Berkovich to six years in prison on Monday, finding them guilty of “justifying terrorism” through their play “Finist the Brave Falcon.” Petriychuk, 44, and Berkovich, 39, have been in custody since May 2023. They were accused of promoting terrorism through their adaptation of…
SIMGAPORE: Three Singaporean women, including an Indian-origin activistwere charged in court here on Thursday for organising a procession of about 70 people that delivered letters to the presidential palace in support of the Palestinian cause without a permit earlier this year. Those charged included Annamalai Kokila Parvathi, 35, and two women of Malay ethnicity, Siti…
A top European Union court said Wednesday that McDonald’s has lost its Big Mac trademark in the 27-nation bloc, ruling in favour of Irish fast food rival Supermac in a longrunning legal battle. The EU General Court said in its judgement that the US fast food giant failed to prove that it was genuinely using…
ROME: Amanda Knoxan American who was convicted and then exonerated of murdering her housemate while they were studying in Italyon Wednesday lost another trial in an Italian court against slander charges related to the 2007 killing. Knox was convicted by a court in Florence on charges that she had slandered a man who ran a…
NEW DELHI: Renowned actor Robert De Niro found himself in a heated confrontation with supporters of former President Donald Trump outside a Manhattan courthouse on Tuesday. The incident occurred after a press conference, during which De Niro did not hold back his feelings, shouting at the Trump supporters“You are gangsters!”The confrontation took place outside the…
NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate has summoned Jharkhand-cadre IAS officer Manish Ranjan for questioning on May 28 in the rural development department’s tender scam and money laundering case in which it recently arrested state minister Alamgir Alam, official sources said on Saturday.Ranjan has earlier served as a secretary in the rural development department and is…
TUNIS: A Tunisian court on Wednesday sentenced two journalists to one year in prison on charges of publishing false news that harms public security, a judicial official said, amid growing fears of a crackdown targeting all critical voices. Mourad Zghidi and Borhan Bsaiss, both journalists with IFM radio, were detained this month over political comments…
PITHORAGARH: The chief judicial magistrate of Pithoragarh sentenced three men, including an assistant manager of Patanjali Ayurved Ltd, to six months in prison and fined all three defendants for failing a soan papdi food test.On Oct 17, 2019, a food safety inspector visited Lila Dhar Pathak’s shop at Main Market in Berinag, Pithoragarh, where concerns…
Back from a whirlwind tour of the hot and dusty terrain of Andhra Pradesh to his own constituency Lucknow for a day’s canvassing, defence minister Rajnath Singh is confident about a substantial rise in BJP’s tally. In a conversation with TOI’s Pravin Kumar & Rajiv Srivastava, he accused the opposition parties of manufacturing poll issues…
