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NEW DELHI: Six of the seven emerging cyber threats predicted for banks and financial institutions barely a year ago have already reached full-scale realisation, with artificial intelligence, stolen identities and manipulated payment workflows enabling attacks that increasingly resemble legitimate activity, India’s second Digital Threat Report for the BFSI sector has warned.The Digital Threat Report 2025-26, … Read more

NEW DELHI: A Delhi court on Monday convicted former Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) councillor Tahir Hussain and several others in the 2020 murder of Intelligence Bureau (IB) officer Ankit Sharma during the North East Delhi riots.The Karkardooma court convicted Hussain of murder and other offences related to rioting. However, it dropped the charge of criminal … Read more

Omar Abdullah calls BJP’s defamation notice ‘great honour’ NEW DELHI: Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah on Monday reacted to the Bharatiya Janata Party’s defamation notice against him over his claim that the safforn party was trying to poach National Conference MLAs from the Jammu region.Calling the notice a “love letter”, Abdullah said that … Read more

IED blast in Nagaland: 1 Assam Rifles personnel killed, four injureD (Representative image) One Assam Rifles personnel was killed and four others were injured in a suspected improvised explosive device (IED) blast near Sukhovi in Nagaland on Monday, officials said.According to the Defence Public Relations Officer (PRO), Kohima, the blast targeted Assam Rifles vehicles.“A suspected … Read more

Mamata Banerjee cries foul over EC’s ‘stoic silence’, opposes more time for rebel camp NEW DELHI: Trinamool Congress (TMC) chairperson Mamata Banerjee has written to the Election Commission (EC), urging it not to grant any further time to the rival faction led by Ritabrata Banerjee in the dispute over the “real” TMC.In her letter, Mamata … Read more

Atishi joins CJP protest on day 24 NEW DELHI: The Cockroach Janta Party’s (CJP) protest at Jantar Mantar over examination irregularities entered its 24th day on Monday, drawing support from Aam Aadmi Party leaders, including Leader of Opposition in the Delhi Assembly Atishi, MLA Kuldeep Kumar and former Delhi Mayor Shelly Oberoi.“Met @Wangchuk66 at Jantar … Read more

NEW DELHI: Amid the alleged Ram Temple donation embezzlement row, Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust has invited applications from eligible candidates for the post of chief executive officer (CEO) of the temple. The successful applicant will head the Ram temple’s administrative management and oversee its day-to-day operations.According to the Trust’s notification, applications must be … Read more

NEW DELHI: BJP on Monday stepped up its attack on Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, demanding that he explain his recent foreign trip while also accusing him and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra of neglecting the constituency after a landslide in Kerala’s Wayanad claimed eight lives.The landslide occurred on July 7 at the site of the Anakkampoyil-Meppadi twin-tube … Read more

The Madras high court in May imposed a blanket ban on the slaughter of cows and calves during Bakrid. NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court Monday stayed Madras high court order that directed Tamil Nadu government to ensure no cow or calf is is slaughtered on the eve of Bakrid or on any other day. A … Read more

A litigant was removed from the Supreme Court after disrupting proceedings The Supreme Court on Monday set aside Gauhati high court’s judgments that upheld declarations of 27 appellants as foreigners, noting that citizenship and foreigner status must be decided through a “fair, lawful and reasonable” process.The ruling came from a Bench of Justices Vikram Nath … Read more