Month: January 2025

South Goa SP Sunita Sawant was removed from her position following her order to collect information on Bajrang Dal members, leading to pressure from the outfit’s functionaries. Anti-narcotics cell SP Tikam Singh Verma replaced her. Bajrang Dal has become increasingly active in Goa, protesting against various issues and political leaders since mid-2023.

UP CM Yogi Adityanath challenged the minority community to accept Lord Ram as their ancestor, citing Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto’s pride in Indian DNA. At an event in Lucknow, Yogi supported Uttarakhand’s uniform civil code and highlighted measures against ‘land jihad’ and ‘love jihad’ in UP. He also criticized the Delhi government and questioned the…

Scientists have discovered portions of the Earth’s crust sinking into the mantle beneath California’s Sierra Nevada mountains. This phenomenon, occurring over millions of years, helps explain continental formation through the process of differentiation, where denser crust layers are absorbed into the mantle, leaving lighter layers behind.

Gukesh Dommaraju has taken the lead in the Tata Steel Chess Masters standings after defeating compatriot Leon Luke Mendonca. In other matches, Nodirbek Abdusattorov drew against Fabiano Caruana, while Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu was defeated by Anish Giri. Arjun Erigaisi drew with defending champion Wei Yi, and Pentala Harikrishna lost to Vladimir Fedoseev.

President Trump is facing pushback from conservatives on social media, as well as an education activist who spoke to Fox News Digital, over his nomination of Dr. Penny Schwinn for deputy secretary at the Department of Education.  “Being from Tennessee and being under Schwinn and her Berkeley-educated, radical views, I was actually shocked when I…

As the world marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp on Monday, the world’s oldest hatred is again on the rise. Israeli President Isaac Herzog addressed the United Nations in honor of the solemn anniversary on Monday, saying the “moral beacon” of the U.N. had “been…

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, D-Mich., said Tuesday that she agreed with “The View” co-host Sunny Hostin’s assessment that President Donald Trump’s deportations were targeting “Brown people.” “I also want to make the point that an undocumented immigrant is not a criminal because he or she is undocumented. That is a civil offense. So to call people…

Conservatives on social media praised newly minted White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt’s performance in her first press conference on Tuesday and made the case that her tenure would be a welcome change from the previous administration’s. Leavitt stepped to the White House pressroom podium on Tuesday and answered questions from more than a dozen…

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Tuesday defended the legality of President Donald Trump’s abrupt firing of at least 17 inspectors general, telling reporters that the administration is confident that the oustings, ordered across nearly every major federal agency, would survive any potential challenges in court. Speaking to reporters for the first time from…