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Kerala Nurse went to Gulf nation in 2008; went through many upheavals to since land in jail for murder; Grand Mufti’, Islamic law become key to saving her now. When Nimisha Priya from Kerala’s Palakkad district went to Yemen for work, hers was a story identical to those of numerous other young women in her state. Within less than a decade, she had got married, had a child, and opened her own clinic, even as the Arab Spring and a civil war led to major geopolitical changes in the region. By 2018, she was in jail for murder. Come 2025,…

The cabinet also said that India is on track to fulfil its commitments under the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26), held in Glasgow. India has surpassed its target of installing 50% of its power capacity from non-fossil fuel sources, achieving a key nationally determined contribution (NDC) under the Paris Agreement five years ahead of the 2030 target, the Union Cabinet said on Wednesday. “India’s achievement of 50% non-fossil fuel installed capacity ahead of the target year is a testament to its ambition, innovation, and commitment to sustainable development. It affirms that development and decarbonisation are not contradictory goals,…

COVID-19 scam: HC grants bail to Sujit Patker; ‘prima facie complicity but jail stay not needed’. The Bombay High Court on Wednesday granted bail to businessman Sujit Patker, alleged aide of Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut, in the COVID-19 jumbo centre scam, noting that despite prima facie complicity, extended incarceration is not necessary as the investigation is complete. A bench of Justice Amit Borkar stressed that factors including the time spent by the accused in jail and the delay in the commencement of the trial should be evaluated in the light of the “overarching principle that bail is the rule…

Assam CM Himanta Sarma hit back at Rahul Gandhi saying the Congress leader was conveniently forgetting that he himself is out on bail in multiple criminal cases registered across the country. Congress leader and the leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi said on Wednesday that his party will overthrow the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government in Assam in the coming assembly election next year and chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma would be in prison for corruption. Sharma hit back saying Gandhi was conveniently forgetting that he himself is out on bail in multiple criminal cases registered across the…

Mamata Banerjee led a protest in Kolkata against the harassment of Bengali-speaking people in BJP-ruled states, joined by senior Trinamool Congress leaders. West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday afternoon led a protest in Kolkata against the alleged harassment of Bengali-speaking people in Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled states. Senior leaders of the party, including Trinamool Congress national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee, also joined Mamata Banerjee as she took to the streets along with thousands of people. The march began from College Square in central Kolkata around 1.45pm and will terminate at Dorina Crossing in Dharmatala. The nearly 3-km-long route was…

Roman era mosaic panel with erotic theme that was stolen during World War II returns to Pompeii. A mosaic panel on travertine slabs, depicting an erotic theme from the Roman era, was returned to the archaeological park of Pompeii on Tuesday, after being stolen by a Nazi German captain during World War II. The artwork was repatriated from Germany through diplomatic channels, arranged by the Italian Consulate in Stuttgart, Germany, after having been returned from the heirs of the last owner, a deceased German citizen. The owner had received the mosaic as a gift from a Wehrmacht captain, assigned to…

With significant investments and a growing fleet of over 1,060 satellites, China poses a serious challenge to US space operations and security. China views space as a critical military domain, just as it does the land, sea and air. While China’s space program is a source of national pride, its authoritarian leader Chairman Xi Jinping aims to displace the USA as the leading space power. This explains the enormous investment Beijing is pouring into scientific, civil and military space assets. So what progress is China making? The US Space Force, in an updated space threat fact sheet published in April,…

US consumer inflation rose 2.7% in June, driven by higher energy costs and tariffs, according to government data. US consumer inflation accelerated in line with analyst expectations last month, government data showed Tuesday, as policymakers try to gauge how President Donald Trump’s ever-growing list of tariffs is affecting the economy. The consumer price index (CPI) was up 2.7 percent from a year ago in June, rising from the 2.4 percent figure in May as energy costs rose, said the Department of Labor. Other areas that saw cost increases included household furnishings and apparel — both segments that experts are eyeing…

Torrential rain in the Northeast led to flooding in New York and New Jersey, resulting in highway closures. The Northeast region of the United States was slammed by torrential rain on Monday night, which caused flooding in various areas of New York and New Jersey, leading to the suspension of highways, subway service, and declaration of a state of emergency in New Jersey. Communities struggled with rapidly rising waters and severe travel disruptions as flash flood alerts and watches extended from Virginia to Pennsylvania. Dramatic footage on social media featured buses stuck by rising water in communities like Scotch Plains,…

Earlier in the day as well, Russian officials dismissed Trump’s tariff threats and called the 50-day ultimatum “unacceptable”. A day after Trump threatened Russia with severe tariffs over the Ukraine war, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov responded on Tuesday by saying that the country was ready to cope with the new sanctions and wondered what was driving Trump to make such threats. “We want to understand what the US President is moved by,” Lavrov said while addressing a press conference at the 25th Shanghai Cooperation Organization Foreign Ministers meeting in China. “I have no doubt we will cope with new…