The Chennai district election workers checking EVMs and VVPATs at the ware house in Chinthadripet on Thursday. | Photo Credit: R. RAGU The first-level checking of the electronic voting machines (EVMs) and the Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPATs) commenced in all districts of Tamil Nadu on Thursday for the upcoming general elections to the…
Video gaming platform Roblox is facing more lawsuits from parents who allege the San Mateo, Calif., company isn’t doing enough to safeguard children from sexual predators. A Los Angeles County mother, whose identity wasn’t revealed in a November lawsuit, alleges that her daughter met a predator on Roblox who persuaded her child to send sexually…
A group of youngsters show their identification cards while waiting in a queue to cast their votes for the local body elections at GHSS Vennakara in Palakkad on Thursday. | Photo Credit: K.K. Mustafah More than 18.55 lakh voters (76.23%) turned out to cast their votes in the local body elections held in Palakkad district…
WASHINGTON — Justice Department leadership has directed the FBI to “compile a list of groups or entities engaged in acts that may constitute domestic terrorism” by the start of next year, and to establish a “cash reward system” that incentivizes individuals to report on their fellow Americans, according to a memo reviewed by The Times. Law enforcement…
Kurnool Range DIG Koya Praveen and Superintendent of Police Vikrant Patil inaugurating the Rakshak fuel station at Adoni, on Thursday. | Photo Credit: BY ARRANGEMENT Kurnool Range Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Koya Praveen and District Superintendent of Police (SP) Vikrant Patil on Thursday inaugurated Rakshak fuel station at Adoni. Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Praveen…
To say the U.S. Senate has grown dysfunctional is like suggesting water is wet or the nighttime sky is dark. The institution that fancies itself “the world’s greatest deliberative body” is supposed to serve as a cooling saucer that tempers the more hotheaded House, applying weight and wisdom as it addresses the Great Issues of…
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. File | Photo Credit: PTI Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday (December 11, 2025) called Union Home Minister Amit Shah “dangerous” and warned that she would sit on a dharna if even a single eligible voter’s name were struck off the electoral rolls during the ongoing Special Intensive Revision…
WASHINGTON — Sophia Nyazi’s husband, Milad, shook her awake at 8 a.m. “ICE is here,” he told her. Three uniformed Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were downstairs at the family’s home on Long Island, N.Y., on Tuesday, according to a video reviewed by The Times that she captured from atop the staircase. Nyazi said the agents asked…
TVK leaders at a meeting of State and district-level office-bearers of the party, at the party headquarters in Panaiyur | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Actor-politician Vijay-led Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) on Thursday (December 11, 2025) formed two special committees to negotiate seat-sharing arrangements with its potential alliance partners and to draft the party election manifesto…
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court’s conservatives sounded ready on Monday to overrule Congress and give President Trump more power to fire officials at independent agencies and commissions. The justices heard arguments on whether Trump could fire Rebecca Slaughter, one of two Democratic appointees on the five-member Federal Trade Commission. The case poses a clash between Congress’ power…