San Francisco: The Trump administration must stop deploying the California National Guard in Los Angeles and return control of the troops to the state, a federal judge ruled Wednesday. US District Judge Charles Breyer in San Francisco granted a preliminary injunction sought by California officials who opposed President Donald Trump's extraordinary move to use state Guard troops...

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New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah delivered a stinging rebuttal to the Congress in the Lok Sabha Wednesday, asserting that the party’s repeated electoral defeats stem directly from its opposition to landmark decisions of the Modi government, most prominently the construction of the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya. “You opposed the abrogation of Article 370, you opposed...

New Delhi: In a major setback for absconding Goa nightclub owners Gaurav Luthra and Saurabh Luthra, a Delhi court Wednesday refused to grant them interim protection from arrest in connection with the devastating fire at Birch by Romeo Lane, which claimed 25 lives. The brothers had sought transit anticipatory bail from the Rohini court to avoid arrest...

Jerusalem: Aid deliveries into Gaza are falling far short of the amount called for under the US-brokered ceasefire, according to an Associated Press analysis of the Israeli military's figures. Under the October ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, Israel agreed to allow 600 trucks of aid into Gaza each day. But an average of only 459 trucks...

New Delhi: Hindi film actor Salman Khan has approached the Delhi High Court seeking protection of his personality rights. The plea is scheduled to be heard Thursday by Justice Manmeet Pritam Singh Arora. Khan has moved the high court seeking to restrain various social media platforms and e-commerce websites from unauthorisedly using his name, images, persona and...

New Delhi: Pre-scheduled interviews of thousands of H-1B visa applicants slated for later this month in India have been abruptly postponed by several months, apparently to scrutinise their social media posts and online profiles. Some of the applicants, whose visa appointments were scheduled next week, have received e-mails from US immigration authorities informing them that their interviews...

Bhubaneswar: The infighting in Odisha Congress again came to the fore with senior party leader Mohammed Moquim raising questions over the leadership of Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC) President Bhakta Charan Das in a recent letter written to Congress leader Sonia Gandhi. Moquim, the ex-MLA and father of sitting Cuttack-Barabati MLA Sofia Firdous, in his letter written ...

Bhubaneswar: A Memorandum of Understanding was signed between the Odisha Power Transmission Corporation Ltd and NABARD for the development of power infrastructure in the eastern state, officials said. Under the agreement, NABARD has extended a loan of Rs 1,685.27 crore to OPTCL. “Today in Bhubaneswar, I witnessed the signing of a landmark MoU between OPTCL and NABARD...

New Delhi: The ED Wednesday said it has seized over a dozen bank accounts, holding about Rs 55 crore worth of deposits, of Anil Ambani Group company Reliance Infrastructure as part of a FEMA investigation. It is alleged that Reliance Infrastructure Ltd (R-Infra), through its special purpose vehicles (SPVs), siphoned public funds from highway construction projects awarded...