Washingto: Days after a US lawmaker compared Edward Snowden with Mahatma Gandhi, US President Barack Obama said the former CIA contractor who leaked to the world the secretive internet and phone surveillance programs, is not a patriot. “I don’t think Snowden was a patriot,” Obama told reporters during a White House news conference. “The fact […]
Thiruvananthapuram: With LDF opposition threatening to lay an indefinite siege of the secretariat from Monday demanding resignation of Chief Minister Oommen Chandy over the solar panel scam, Central forces arrived in Kerala to assist the police. Out of 20 companies of forces sought by the state, the first batch of ITBP personnel reached here this morning and one company of […]
New Delhi: In a major step towards completing its nuclear triad, India activated the atomic reactor on-board the indigenous nuclear submarine INS Arihant paving the way for its operational deployment by the Navy. “The nuclear reactor on-board the ‘INS Arihant’ has been made critical (activated) last night,” sources said on the development of the nuclear […]
Thiruvananthapuram: Shafeeq, the five-year-old-boy, who was brutally tortured by his father and step-mother, and recuperating at a hospital in Idukki district, has been shifted to Vellore Medical College Hospital in Tamil Nadu for further treatment on Saturday. According to the doctors attending to the boy at St John’s Hospital at Kattappana, the boy needs neuro-rehabilitation […]
Newdelhi: Moderate to heavy rain lashed several parts of North India disrupting normal life. In Himachal Pradesh, incessant rain continuing for the past two days inundated several low-lying areas in many districts. Flood situation in Uttar Pradesh has worsened as widespread rain continued to lash the state. Delhiites today woke up to a pleasant morning […]