OTTAWA: Police in Vancouver have released images of a vehicle and two persons suspected of vandalising the Khalsa Diwan Society Gurdwara on Ross Street last week.The suspects were reportedly outside the gurdwara when it was spray-painted with graffiti in both English and Punjabi and included the word “murdabad” (death to), on Saturday morning.Anyone who recognises […]
Senior journalist and author Coomi Kapoor has raised serious allegations against the makers of Emergency, the upcoming political drama directed by and starring Kangana Ranaut. Kapoor, whose 2015 book The Emergency: A Personal History was widely regarded as one of the most comprehensive accounts of the 1975 Emergency imposed by then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, […]
Continuing a pattern of stonewalling, the Justice Department has defied a judge’s order to explain what the Trump administration has done, and plans to do, to seek the release of a Maryland man who was wrongfully deported to El Salvador last month, according to court papers filed on Tuesday. In refusing to reveal much of […]
WASHINGTON: The conservative-dominated US Supreme Court is slated to hear a case on Tuesday about whether parents have the religious right to pull their children from classes when books containing LGBTQ-related content are read or discussed.The court will review an appeal filed by parents against a Maryland public school district where, in 2022, books aimed […]
Nadine Menendez, wife of former US Senator Bob Menendez, was convicted on Monday for participating in a multi-year bribery scheme that included accepting gold bars, nearly half a million dollars in cash, and a Mercedes-Benz convertible in exchange for political favours.A Manhattan federal jury found her guilty on all counts after a three-week trial, which […]
Idaho mother who killed her children goes on trial over the murder of her husband (Image: AP) PHOENIX: Closing arguments are scheduled Monday afternoon at the Arizona trial for Lori Vallow Daybell, the Idaho woman with doomsday religious beliefs who’s charged with conspiring to murder her estranged husband in suburban Phoenix. Vallow Daybell, who isn’t […]
Esha Verma, daughter of Ashwin Verma and stepdaughter of popular television actress Rupali Ganguly, shared an emotional video on social media following the ongoing public dispute between her and her father’s current wife. The post comes after a legal battle ensued between Esha and Ganguly, who recently filed a Rs. 50 crore defamation suit against […]
In the unanimous decision, five senior judges declared that under the act, both “woman” and “sex” refer to biological females, siding with the Scottish gender-critical group For Women Scotland (FWS), which appealed the case.The ruling came as a blow to those believing legal gender recognition should guarantee full inclusion under the law’s protections for women. […]
Xi Jinping and Luong Cuong (AP) BANGKOK: Chinese leader Xi Jinping is making the case for free trade as he tours Southeast Asia this week, presenting China as a source of “stability and certainty.” On Monday, he was welcomed to Hanoi with pomp and ceremony by Vietnam’s President Luong Cuong. He arrived in Kuala Lumpur, […]
In the latest update on the Saif Ali Khan stabbing case, the chargesheet submitted by Mumbai police has disclosed that only one out of twenty fingerprints collected from the crime scene matches the accused, Shariful Islam. This single matching print was lifted from the eighth floor of the actor’s Bandra residence, where the attack occurred. […]
