PATHANAMTHITTA/THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala Cultural affairs minister Saji Cherian ridiculed the Constitution and said it condoned exploitation of workers, triggering condemnation and demands for his resignation. Cherian, who has courted controversy earlier too with seemingly thoughtless remarks, later expressed regret and claimed…
NEW DELHI: Tata Sons Chairman N Chandrasekaran on Thursday had to face the ire of a shareholder of the group’s hospitality arm Indian Hotels Company Ltd over observing a minute’s silence for late Pallonji Mistry, who was the single largest…
COLOMBO: Chamila Nilanthi is tired of all the waiting. The 47-year-old mother of two spent three days lining up to get kerosene in the Sri Lankan town of Gampaha, northeast of the capital Colombo. Two weeks earlier, she spent three…
NATO leaders were sitting down Wednesday to try to turn an urgent sense of purpose triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine into action — and to patch up any cracks in their unity over money and mission. Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg…
LONDON: Polls opened on Thursday in Britain for two special elections that could deliver a new blow to scandal-tainted Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Wakefield in northern England and the southwestern constituency of Tiverton and Honiton are both electing replacements…
LONDON: Britain’s railway workers on Tuesday began the network’s biggest strike action in more than three decades, as a cost-of-living crisis caused by surging inflation risks wider industrial action. Last-ditch talks to avert the strike broke down on Monday, meaning…
The ‘Shaakuntalam‘ actress Samantha Ruth Prabhu met Sadhguru at an event to mark his 100-day journey for the Save Soil movement in Hyderabad and discussed several issues. One of the questions was about the unfairness and injustice that one suffers…
WASHINGTON: Former President Donald Trump‘s efforts to punish his perceived enemies will be tested in South Carolina on Tuesday as Republican US Representatives Tom Rice and Nancy Mace try to fend off Trump-backed primary election challengers. In Nevada, Trump-endorsed Republican…
MYSURU (Karnataka): After a setback in the recent Rajya Sabha polls, which saw at least one of its MLAs voting against party candidate, the JD(S) on Monday faced another round of dissidence with its MLC requesting voters to back a…
LONDON: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson faces a boisterous parliament Wednesday in his first appearance before lawmakers since narrowly fending off a damaging no-confidence vote from his own Conservative MPs. His backers are likely to stage a noisy show of…
