TOI correspondent from London: British MPs assembled at Westminster Hall heard this Monday graphic testimonies of grooming-gang survivors describing trafficking, rape and torture at the hands of mostly Pakistani-origin men, forcing parliament to revisit a sordid saga mothballed by decades of institutional failure.A survivor recounted in her recorded testimony, read out by Restore Britain MP…
SRINAGAR: Ladakh talks have become talk of the town in Srinagar.Former J&K CM and PDP president Mehbooba Mufti has written to CM Omar Abdullah and all other political parties urging them to unite and make an appeal to the prime minister and the home minister, “to initiate a meaningful and sustained engagement with the people…
TOI correspondent from Washington: US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has renewed pressure on New Delhi’s purchases of Russian oil, telling Congress on Tuesday that the Trump administration wants to end “as soon as possible” sanctions waivers and special arrangements that have allowed countries such as India to import Russian oilRubio’s remarks during a Senate…
G Parameshwara is set to become Karnataka’s Deputy Chief Minister as Congress finalizes its cabinet. BENGALURU: Senior Congress leader G Parameshwara is set to be appointed Deputy chief minister in the new Karnataka government headed by chief minister-designate D K Shivakumar, sources said on Tuesday.The decision emerged after a series of high-level meetings in New…
CJP founder Abhijeet Dipke “Meet me at the airport.” That’s the call to supporters from 30‑year‑old Abhijeet Dipke, founder of Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), who says he will return from the US on June 6, “fully aware I may be arrested as soon as I land”.Dipke told TOI his purpose “is to lead a peaceful,…
The fall to seventh rank is not just about the rallies in South Korea and Taiwan. It is also about the record exodus of foreign capital from Indian stock markets. (AI image) In a span of just over a week, the Indian stock market has gone from being the world’s fifth largest to the seventh…
As the team completes 30 years, Commanding Officer Group Captain Ajay Dasarathi says the journey of Suryakiran is inseparable from the journey of the IAF itself. PUNE: For three decades, the scarlet-and-white trails of the Suryakiran Aerobatic Team have painted the Indian skies with precision, discipline and spectacle.But beyond the breathtaking loops, barrel rolls and…
NEW DELHI: Swinging into action, the government on Tuesday transferred the two top officials of the Central Board of Secondary Education’s (CBSE) amid a row over the board’s new On-Screen Marking (OSM) system.An official notification stated that CBSE chairman Rahul Singh and secretary Himanshu Gupta have been transferred, while a committee has been constituted to…
The ministry of external affairs on Tuesday strongly rejected references to Jammu and Kashmir in a joint statement issued by the European Union and Pakistan, calling them unwarranted.Responding to media queries, MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said India “categorically rejects” any mention of Jammu and Kashmir in the joint press communiqué. He reiterated that the Union…
. NEW DELHI: India has dispatched a second tranche of emergency medical assistance weighing 43 tonnes to the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) to strengthen Ebola response efforts across the African Union, the ministry of external affairs (MEA) said on Monday. The consignment, sent to Kampala, Uganda, follows a request from…