SINGAPORE: A 25-year-old Indian-origin man in Singapore was sentenced to one year, five months and six weeks' jail after he pleaded guilty to one count each of assaulting his father and molesting a woman in separate incidents. Arjune Ravi rained blows on his 64-year-old father and continued the assault, despite knowing that police officers were waiting to be let into their apartment unit (flat) on May 10, The Straits Times newspaper reported. Police officers later arrested Arjune and the father

CHANDIGARH: Indian National Lok Dal president and former Haryana chief minister Om Prakash Chautala died in Gurugram on Thursday, a party spokesperson said. He was 89. Chautala, a five-time chief minister of Haryana and former deputy prime minister Devi Lal's son, suffered a cardiac arrest at his Gurugram home and was immediately rushed to hospital but could not be saved, the spokesperson told PTI.

JAIPUR: Five people were burnt alive and 37 injured in a major fire incident on the Jaipur-Ajmer national highway here on Friday morning after a truck loaded with a chemical collided with some other vehicles, police said. They said around 30 trucks and other vehicles were gutted in the fire. Five people have died and 37 are injured, Police Commissioner Biju George Joseph told PTI. Rajasthan Chief Minister Bhajanlal Sharma visited the SMS hospital, where the injured were admitted, and spoke to do

NEW DELHI: The government has moved to increase the strength of the joint committee of Parliament that will scrutinise the two bills proposing simultaneous elections from 31 MPs to 39, giving representation to more parties. The list of Lok Sabha MPs proposed by the government now includes one member each from the Shiv Sena (UBT), CPI(M) and the Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas), besides two more members of the BJP and one more of the Samajwadi party. The list of business for the House for Friday i

NEW DELHI: India wants to have good relations with Pakistan that are free of terror but if it does not show it is changing its past behaviour, then there will be implications on bilateral ties, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said in the Lok Sabha on Friday. The minister also said that trade relations had been disrupted due to certain decisions taken by Pakistan in 2019. I would like to inform the honourable member that in terms of improving ties with Pakistan, like any other neighbour, w

SRINAGAR: Cold conditions tightened their grip on Kashmir on Friday, with the minimum temperature dropping several degrees below freezing point, making it the coldest night of the season in most areas of the valley, officials reported. The night temperature across Kashmir fell further below freezing due to dry weather, they added. Temperatures were recorded at 1.2 to 3.2 degrees below the normal for this past of the season, officials said. Srinagar recorded its season's lowest temperature at min

CHANDIGARH: Opposition parties on Wednesday condemned the attack on SAD leader Sukhbir Singh Badal at the Golden Temple and alleged that law and order has broken down in Punjab. They questioned security lapses in the temple and demanded a high court-monitored probe. A man, identified as Narayan Singh Chaura, opened fire at Badal while he was performing the duty of sewadar but missed the target as he was overpowered. SAD leader Bikram Singh Majithia said the murderous attack was aimed at finishin

NEW DELHI: Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha proceedings were adjourned for the day on Monday amid continuous protests by opposition members over the Adani indictment row, recent violence in Uttar Pradesh's Sambhal and other issues. As soon as the lower House met after the weekend break, many opposition members, including those from the Congress, were on their feet, raising the indictment of industrialist Gautam Adani in a US court on bribery charges, among other issues. Some members were in the Well of

NEW DELHI: The opposition on Sunday asked the Centre to allow discussions in the Parliament on the US prosecutors' bribery charges against the Adani Group even as Union minister Kiren Rijiju made it clear that the matters to be taken up in the two Houses will be decided by their authorised committees with the consent of the respective Chair. Following the customary all-party meeting on the eve of the Parliament's Winter Session commencing Monday, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Rijiju told report