Author: Rahul M

Can properties bought in Bengaluru be registered with the office of a sub-registrar in Delhi? Can the properties registered in Delhi then be registered in Bengaluru without an official communication from the Delhi registrar? Was the office of the Delhi sub-registrar open on a public holiday, such as May 1 in 1982, to register properties?Several such questions have surfaced in a dispute over 92 properties spread over nearly 100 acres of land at Varthur Narsipura in the Tavarekere region of south Bengaluru, claimed to have been purchased and registered in Delhi on May 1, 1982, by the realty firm DLF…

New Delhi: With the capital cloaked in toxic haze a day after Diwali, Delhi environment minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa hit back at AAP criticism and accused former chief minister Arvind Kejriwal of urging farmers to burn stubble in Punjab for worsening pollution in the region.Addressing a press conference on Tuesday, Sirsa claimed the BJP govt in Delhi has started  “cleaning up” the “mess wrought by the Kejriwal government”. “They can’t digest this, so they are causing trouble across the state border in Punjab,” he said, displaying videos on a screen of purported stubble burning. Show Full Article Sirsa made the…

PARIS (AP) — The Paris prosecutor said Tuesday that crown jewels stolen in a dramatic weekend Louvre heist were worth an estimated 88 million euros ($102 million), but that the monetary estimate doesn’t include their historical value to France.Prosecutor Laure Beccuau, whose office is leading the investigation, said about 100 investigators are now involved in the police hunt for the suspects and gems after Sunday’s theft from the world’s most-visited museum.“The wrongdoers who took these gems won’t earn 88 million euros if they had the very bad idea of disassembling these jewels,″ she said in an interview with broadcaster RTL.…

Congress general secretary (organisation) K C Venugopal spoke with RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav on Tuesday, and the Congress is rushing over senior leader Ashok Gehlot and Bihar in-charge Krishna Allavaru to Patna, as the Mahagathbandhan scrambles to bring the alliance on track.Leaders expressed confidence that all things would be settled soon and that the Mahagathbandhan will hold a joint press conference on Wednesday to underline its unity. Thursday is the last date for withdrawal of nominations, and the alliance leaders are hopeful they will get candidates to drop out to avoid ‘friendly fights’. As of Tuesday, the Mahagathbandhan is staring…

PARIS — The four thieves arrived on the south side of the Louvre on Sunday morning at 9:30 and pulled a truck up on the sidewalk, right next to the museum walls. They posed as workers, wearing yellow vests and setting out traffic cones. To anyone strolling along the banks of the Seine, just across the road, it might not have been immediately apparent that the setup was a ruse and that a daring robbery was underway. Workers are a common sight around the Louvre, an ancient, sprawling former palace, whose basic upkeep and renovations make it a constantly transforming…

Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister and Bengaluru Development Minister D K Shivakumar said Tuesday that a Detailed Project Report (DPR) is being prepared to white-top 500 km of city roads at an estimated cost of Rs 4,000 crore. Speaking at an event in Bengaluru’s Gandhinagar constituency, he said that white-topping would increase the lifespan of roads by 25-30 years. “Already, white-topping works are being carried out along 148 km. For the development of 83 roads, Rs 1,800 crore is being spent,” he said. Apart from this, black-topping works are being taken up along 182 roads spanning around 350 km at a…

With just two weeks to go before Bihar heads to the polls, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav has once again targeted Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, this time questioning his health after a video of the Janata Dal (United) chief garlanding a woman at a public meeting went viral on social media. The clip, reportedly from an NDA rally, shows the 74-year-old Chief Minister greeting a woman on stage. As she folds her hands in respect, Kumar attempts to place a garland around her neck. JDU’s Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Jha intervenes, appearing to ask him to instead hand…

AstraZeneca and Daiichi Sankyo are challenging Gilead Sciences for dominance in one of the toughest-to-treat breast cancers, with new data from Europe’s biggest oncology meeting signaling a high-stakes race for patients — and profits.Late-stage results presented Sunday showed that both drugs — Astra and Daiichi’s Datroway and Gilead’s Trodelvy — improved outcomes in patients receiving first-line treatment for metastatic triple-negative breast cancer ineligible for immunotherapy. Datroway extended overall survival by about five months compared with chemotherapy, reducing the risk of disease progression or death by 43%. Trodelvy cut that risk by 38%, though data on overall survival isn’t yet complete.Both sets…

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has filed a prosecution complaint (chargesheet) in a special court in Bengaluru against Karnataka Congress MLA K C Veerendra on money laundering charges through illegal online betting apps. The prosecution complaint was filed on October 18, just a few days short of the completion of 60 days since the arrest of the Congress MLA in Gangtok, Sikkim, on August 23.The ED’s case against Veerendra stems from a case registered by the Harohalli police in the Bengaluru South district by a marketing executive at a private firm who filed a cheating complaint against online betting app Betin…

Paramount One of the most popular characters in “Star Trek” is the Klingon commander Worf, who first appeared in “Star Trek: The Next Generation.” Played by Michael Dorn (who looks very different in real life), Worf has appeared in more episodes and movies than any other “Trek” character. But Dorn was the last regular cast member hired for the series, and creator Gene Roddenberry didn’t even want the character in the show because of his aversion to including “classic” aliens from the original “Star Trek.” Nevertheless, when Dorn took the part,…