- Wednesday, April 30, 2025
THE US Department of Homeland Security has threatened to revoke Harvard University's ability to enrol foreign students if it failed to provide by April 30 records on its international student visa holders' "illegal and violent" activities. It also cancelled grants totalling more than $2.7 million to Harvard University. The latest…
ELECTRIC cab-hailing platform BluSmart remained non-operational on Thursday (17) across Delhi-NCR, Bengaluru, and Mumbai, as the market regulator cracked down on its co-founder over alleged misuse of funds at an affiliated company. BluSmart app, that offered more than 8,000 taxis in the three metros, stopped taking bookings on Wednesday evening…
A 28-YEAR-OLD YouTuber allegedly murdered her husband with the help of a male friend, also a content creator, after he objected to their "intimacy" and her social media activities. The duo carried the body on a motorcycle and dumped it in a drain in Haryana's Bhiwani, where it was found…
MITCHELL STARC, who bowled the crucial match-winning super over for Delhi Capitals against Rajasthan Royals said he "backed" himself to execute his plans. The Australian pacer produced his magic not once but twice nailing blockhole deliveries at will. Needing nine in six balls, Starc bowled his yorkers consistently in the…
US VICE PRESIDENT JD Vance and his wife Usha, the first Indian-American Second Lady, will visit India early next week that will see him hold talks with prime minister Narendra Modi amid increasing global trade disruptions over Trump administration's tariff tussle. The US vice president is visiting Italy and India…
NEARLY 42,000 Indians, who had booked through private tour operators for Hajj pilgrimage this year, will not be able to travel, after Saudi Arabia reportedly slashed their quota. The Indian government on Tuesday (15) blamed the Combined Haj Group Operators (CHGOs), an umbrella organisation of private tour operators, for failing…
A 51-YEAR-OLD Pune resident was arrested at Mumbai International Airport for allegedly tearing pages from his passport to conceal his trips to Bangkok from his family, a police official said on Wednesday (16). The accused, Vijay Bhalerao, was intercepted by immigration officials at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (CSMIA)…
IN a significant development, the Supreme Court on Wednesday (16) proposed to stay certain key provisions of the contentious Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025, including the power to denotify properties declared as waqf by courts and inclusion of non-Muslims in central Waqf councils and boards. The top court proposed to pass…
FORMER Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Farooq Abdullah Wednesday (16) reacted angrily to claims of former R&AW chief A S Dulat that he had "privately backed" the Article 370 abrogation, and accused him of "cheap stunts" to boost the sales of his forthcoming book. Dismissing Dulat's claims that the National…
APPLE'S main India suppliers Foxconn and Tata shipped nearly $2 billion worth of iPhones to the United States in March, an all-time high, as the US company airlifted devices to bypass President Donald Trump's impending tariffs, customs data shows. The smartphone maker stepped up production in India and chartered cargo…
