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NEW DELHI: A senior Air India Express pilot has been grounded after allegedly assaulting a passenger at Delhi airport’s Terminal 1 on Friday. The incident reportedly began when Captain Virender Sejwal told passenger Ankit Dewan, “This lane is for staff. Are you anpadh [illiterate]?”, triggering what initially was a verbal altercation that escalated into a…

Starbucks said on Friday it appointed an Indian national Anand Varadarajan as its new Chief Technology Officer, effective January 19. The move supports CEO Brian Niccol’s push for a tech revamp in stores to make labour more efficient. Varadarajan will replace Deb Hall Lefevre, who stepped down in September, after which Starbucks named Ningyu Chen…

NEW DELHI: Dense fog enveloped Delhi and the NCR on Saturday, significantly reducing visibility across key areas on Saturday, Key roads and residential neighborhoods were shrouded in fog, with visuals showing dense mist covering wide areas of the national capital.The overall Air Quality Index (AQI) reading stood at 380 at around 7 am, falling into…

BENGALURU: Parents in Thyagarajanagar claimed that 35-year-old former gym trainer Ranjan M, also known as Ranjith, had recently targeted several children in the locality. According to them, he tried to hit a girl with his bike, pulled the hair of a boy riding a bicycle, and even followed another girl the next day, striking her…

NEW DELHI: Air India Express grounded a senior pilot rostered for duty on Friday after he allegedly assaulted a passenger in front of his family at Delhi airport’s T1 over the latter being allowed to use a security-check lane where aircraft crew and other staff supposedly get priority.Passenger Ankit Dewan accused Captain Virender Sejwal, en…

US President Donald Trump issued a stern warning against those who intended to “threaten or attack America” as the States launched Operation Hawkeye Strike against ISIS targets in Syria. The move came after two American soldiers were killed in the Syrian desert“Because of ISIS’s vicious killing of brave American Patriots in Syria, whose beautiful souls…

The US Justice Department’s official website struggled to cope with heavy traffic on Friday as the first batch of Jeffrey Epstein files was made public.Following the release, dozens of people reported the site crashing on social media. Users said that the website was “not loading” or showing messages showing their requests were “in queue.” Users…

NEW DELHI: The draft electoral roll published in Tamil Nadu and Gujarat Friday under Phase-2 of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise witnessed 97.3 lakh and 73.7 lakh deletions, respectively. Another 1.2 crore electors in each of the two states stand to receive notices for “logical discrepancies” detected in their enumeration forms.The TN electorate has…

NEW DELHI: Raising the battle stakes over MGNREGA with the BJP, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi Friday said Congress will force the Modi govt to withdraw the disbanding of the job guarantee scheme, with the party warning that farmers’ protest forced the Centre to roll back the “three black farm laws”. ‘Congress also warned that after…

Modi, Priyanka At Post-Session Tea Meeting NEW DELHI: Rancour and blame game inside Parliament made way for conviviality and cordiality at a customary post-parliamentary session get-together of govt functionaries, including PM Narendra Modi, and opposition MPs at Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla’s chamber over tea on Friday.Congress and other opposition parties, which had skipped the…