President Donald Trump speaks during a Friends of Ireland luncheon for Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin in the U.S. Capitol, on St. Patrick’s Day in Washington. (AP Photo) US President Donald Trump, while meeting with Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin in the Oval Office on Tuesday, said that Washington is not ready yet to leave...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said he spoke with Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, extending advance Eid greetings and discussing the evolving situation in West Asia. In a post on X, Modi strongly condemned recent attacks targeting the United Arab Emirates that led to the loss of innocent lives and damage to civilian...

File photo: Argentina’s President Javier Milei (Picture credit: AP) Argentina has formally withdrawn from the World Health Organization (WHO), its foreign minister announced on Tuesday, becoming the latest country to leave the UN health agency after the United States took the same step earlier this year. Buenos Aires completes exit after earlier announcement As per...

Data shared at the press meet showed that ₹4,404 crore was allocated over the past 12 financial years for Musi development, but only ₹37 crore was spent under the head, which amounts to less than 1%. | Photo Credit: SIDDHANT THAKUR Wide gap exists between the fund allocation and expenditure for the development of Musi...

In a bid to rapidly expand piped natural gas (PNG) access and coverage amid the shortage of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) due to the West Asia conflict, the Centre has written to states to expedite approvals to city gas distribution (CGD) firms for laying pipelines. This comes amid the Centre’s appeal to LPG consumers—commercial users...

Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) working president, K. T. Rama Rao on Tuesday launched a scathing attack on the city’s civic administration over the worsening mosquito menace, accusing authorities of failing to control the situation. The BRS working president mocked the administration, suggesting that several localities be renamed “Domalaguda, Domalahills, Domalabad, Domalapool, and Domalagutta” to reflect...

NEW DELHI: The All India Trinamool Congress on Tuesday announced its list of candidates for the upcoming West Bengal Assembly elections. Party supremo and chief minister Mamata Banerjee declared that the party will contest 291 of the 294 seats in the state. The remaining three seats in the Darjeeling hills will be contested by Anit...

All India Trinamool Congress Supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee expressed confidence that the TMC would retain power with a comfortable majority in the 2026 Assembly elections. Photo credit: X/@AITCofficial West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will fight her former confidante turned bitter rival, the BJP’s Suvendu Adhikari, from the Bhabanipur seat in...

4 min readNew DelhiUpdated: Mar 17, 2026 03:35 PM IST The Jharkhand High Court recently upheld a family court’s order granting divorce to a husband on grounds of mental cruelty, observing that false allegations of impotency levelled by a wife can seriously damage a spouse’s reputation and constitute cruelty. A bench of Justices Sujit Narayan...

An AIADMK MP from Tamil Nadu has come under sharp criticism for making a sexist and derogatory remark involving actor Nayanthara while participating in a protest on women’s safety. Intended as a dig at Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin, the MP asked whether, if his “dream” was to marry Nayanthara, the government would fulfil...