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AGC explains why rape charge was reduced to assault in high-profile case

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 16 -- The Attorney General's Chambers (AGC) said evidential issues, including testimonial inconsistencies and a non-supportive medical report, were the reasons for downgrading the r... Read More


Invisible employer

India, Jan. 16 -- How strange-and alarming-to think that an invisible employer is vanishing beneath our feet. Groundwater, long treat-ed as a private convenience, has quietly underpinned millions of d... Read More


In contempt of its own order

India, Jan. 16 -- The SUpreme Court passed orders on the definition of the Aravallis on November 20, 2025, stating that landforms above 100 m in the range will be considered as Aravalli hills. This wa... Read More


Silkworms spin new income stream for Kanpur farmers

KANPUR, Jan. 16 -- In a quiet transformation across rural Kanpur, hundreds of farmers are adding an unlikely crop to their fields: silkworms. Villages in Ghatampur, Patara and Bhitargaon, where sericu... Read More


Mumbai's power shift: Mahayuti topples Thackerays, BJP emerges kingmaker in BMC polls

Mumbai/IBNS, Jan. 16 -- The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Mahayuti alliance has scripted a historic victory in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) elections, bringing an end to the Thacker... Read More


TSMC advances Arizona Fab 2 mass production to second half of 2027

New Delhi, Jan. 16 -- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) moved forward the mass production schedule for its second wafer fab in Arizona to the second half of 2027. According to a report by ... Read More


Soul survivors: Sanjoy Narayan on the magic of a retro music movement

India, Jan. 16 -- There is something delectably anachronistic about watching a young band in 2026 commit themselves to the sound of 1968. Yet that's precisely what Thee Sacred Souls have been doing si... Read More


Parasakthi Box Office Collection Day 7: Sivakarthikeyan film holds steady, aided by Pongal holiday

New Delhi, Jan. 16 -- Parasakthi Box Office Collection Day 7: The historical political drama Sivakarthikeyan-led Parasakthi, which hit theatres on 10 January, has managed to hold steady at the box off... Read More


Revamping Nepali Congress

Nepal, Jan. 16 -- The Nepali Congress formally fractured on Wednesday, an inevitable consequence of the grand old party being treated as no more than a vehicle to fulfil one man's political ambition. ... Read More


Himachal: Rohit Thakur backs Vikramaditya in IAS-IPS row, seeks CM's intervention

Shimla, Jan. 16 -- The internal rift within the Himachal Pradesh cabinet over PWD minister Vikramaditya Singh's remarks against non-Himachali officers widened on Tuesday as education minister Rohit Th... Read More