APRIL 7, 2023
London: The Labour Party in the UK has reportedly deselected 18 of its councillors in Leicester, including all its Hindu councillors, thereby preventing them from contesting in the upcoming local elections scheduled in May.
Out of the 18 councillors, seven are of Indian-origin, including six Hindus and one Christian, TOI reported.
All these candidates had voted for a motion...
APRIL 7, 2023
FILE PHOTO: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks at the NH Institute of Politics at St. Anselm College in Manchester.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a lawyer and vaccine skeptic, will make a bid for the White House in 2024, becoming the second long-shot Democratic candidate to challenge President Joe Biden in his expected run for re-election.
Kennedy,...
APRIL 7, 2023
U.S. hiring gradually cooled in March as employers added 236,000 workers, and the unemployment rate fell to 3.5%.
The labor market has remained solid a year after the Federal Reserve began aggressively raising interest rates to tame high inflation. Employers added jobs last month in leisure and hospitality, government, professional and business services and health care. They cut...
APRIL 6, 2023
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has accepted luxury gifts from a prominent Republican donor for more than 20 years without disclosing them, possibly violating a law that requires justices, judges and members of Congress to disclose most gifts, according to a new report.
ProPublica reported Thursday on a series of lavish trips Thomas has taken over more than two...
APRIL 4, 2023
Former President Donald Trump sits at the defense table with his defense team in a Manhattan court, April 4, 2023, in New York. - Seth Wenig/AP
Former President Donald Trump engaged in a "scheme" to boost his election chances during the 2016 presidential race through a series of hush money payments made by others to help his campaign,...
APRIL 4, 2023
It was Kollam-based Padmanabha Pillai and his wife Vasanta’s dream for their son to be a prominent Bharatanatyam dancer that brought a 15-year-old Hari Padman to the Kalakshetra Foundation in 1993. A prestigious and sprawling 100-acre cultural institution in south Chennai’s Thiruvanmiyur overlooking the majestic Bay of Bengal, Kalakshetra had, by the 1990s, become an autonomous body...
APRIL 4, 2023
Spaceplanes are highly sophisticated aerospace vehicles - while within the earth's atmosphere, they can glide and land on an airstrip like a plane and while in space, they can manoeuvre like a spacecraft. The most common spaceplanes are the 1980s-era American-origin Space Shuttle and the Soviet-origin Buran. But neither of these giant astronaut-ferrying spaceplanes are in operation....
APRIL 4, 2023
NASA Artemis II Moon Mission Crew.
New Delhi: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) on Monday announced the four astronauts who will venture around the Moon on Artemis II, the first crewed mission on the American space agency's path to establishing a long-term presence at the Moon for science and exploration...
APRIL 4, 2023
NEW YORK — In the city that made him famous, under extraordinary courtroom security, Donald Trump pleaded not guilty Tuesday to 34 felony counts related to payments to silence an adult film actress during his 2016 presidential campaign. He is the first former or sitting U.S. president to be criminally charged.
The charges — falsifying business records in...
APRIL 2, 2023
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Sunday said that the West has a “bad habit” of commenting on others, and that it thinks it has a “God-given right” to speak on the internal matters of other countries.
Jaishankar was responding to a question on Germany and United States’ remarks on the disqualification of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi from...
