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Tyler Robinson, who is accused of fatally shooting Charlie Kirk. File | Photo Credit: AP Prosecutors in Charlie Kirk‘s killing pointed Tuesday (August 18, 2026) to an engraved bullet, arguing that the inscription “Hey Facist! CATCH!” demonstrates that Kirk was targeted for how the defendant perceived his politics.Also read | Prosecutors to lay out their case against the man accused of killing Charlie KirkWhether defendant Tyler Robinson acted out of political animus could be key for prosecutors seeking the death penalty — or for his attorneys in taking that punishment off the table.The prosecution and defence have filed dueling documents…

Swati Maliwal targets Kejriwal over DJB, liquor scams NEW DELHI: Rajya Sabha member Swati Maliwal on Wednesday accused former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal of presiding over a decade of corruption in the national capital, alleging irregularities in projects including classroom construction and the liquor policy.”In last 10 years in Delhi, Arvind Kejriwal was running a shop of corruption, be it construction of classrooms, liquor scam, they did many of such scams,” BJP leader Maliwal said.Maliwal alleged that Kejriwal deliberately kept himself away from ministerial portfolios and allowed corruption to be carried out through ministers, whom he later blamed when…

Mumbai: People at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport’s Terminal 2 faced inconvenience on Tuesday morning after a section of aggregator cab drivers attached to platforms such as Ola, Uber and Rapido staged a brief protest. While services were restored later and cab operations largely returned to normal, passengers continued to experience some shortage of vehicles during peak hours, sources in cab unions said.Adding to the list of grievances, a section of the aggregator drivers’ union on Tuesday criticised the Maharashtra government’s move to enforce a mandatory working knowledge of Marathi for commercial passenger vehicle drivers.The protesting drivers at the airport…

Delhi government launched Atal Canteens to combat hunger across the capital. Delhi is a city of many colours and contradictions. It is at once imperial and intimate, monumental and modest. This cosmopolitan city functions through the labour of millions whose names may never make headlines, but whose hands build the capital every single day. For them, food is not an abstraction or a policy slogan, it is survival, dignity and tomorrow’s hope served on a plate.It is in this spirit that Delhi govt has launched Atal Canteens across the capital, a simple idea with a profound moral core that no…

Spurious drugs valued at over Rs 5 crore were seized in Bengaluru (Photo credit: X) BENGALURU: Spurious drugs worth more than Rs 5 crore were seized in Bengaluru on Tuesday during a major drive conducted by the drug wing of the food safety and drug administration (FDA).The operation was carried out near Bidadi toll gate, news agency PTI reported.According to department officials, the drive uncovered a racket involving the repacking and relabelling of spurious drugs to make them appear as products of multinational companies.The premises were operating without any valid licence, officials added.The seizure comes at a time when the…

Hyderabad: A trainee IPS officer accused in a rape case registered at Attapur police station was taken into two days of additional police remand on Tuesday. Investigators will interrogate the accused until Wednesday evening to recover an iPhone allegedly containing evidence related to the case. On Thursday, he will be taken to a govt hospital for a potency test.A team of Attapur police, along with personnel from the Women Safety Wing, took the trainee IPS officer into custody from Chanchalguda prison at around 10.30 am on Tuesday. The interrogation continued until 5 pm at the Attapur police station.“The aim is…

CHENNAI: DMK MLA D Gautham from Vanur constituency said the TVK govt is stopping DMK’s infra projects such as the Oragadam-Cheyyar four lane corridor in city suburbs besides cancelling at least 2,993 tenders.He asked the reason why the tenders were cancelled. He further said the Anna Salai flyover, Port Maduravoyal corridor was happening in a sluggish manner.He said the DMK govt did not stop any of AIADMK’s flyover work like Koyambedu flyover and Medavakkam flyover.Two other MLAs, Sampath Kumar and Ganesh Kumar too blamed the govt for stopping key highways projects in Harur and Chenji. A few other MLAs said…

Ahmedabad: With AI-enabled tools now widely used to enhance photographs, experts at IIT Gandhinagar have highlighted limitations in supervised learning-based training methods commonly used for image restoration. Ahead of World Photography Day on Aug 19, they said a new image restoration method has yielded better results.A joint team of researchers from IIT-Gn and IIT-BHU has developed Generative Latent Inversion for Blind Face Restoration, or GenR, an AI-powered face restoration framework that does not require paired training data.“It uses a powerful face-generation model to imagine possible clean versions of a damaged image and gradually refines them until the generated face matches…

When the owner discovered the excavator missing, he immediately alerted police. BERHAMPUR: Police have intensified efforts to trace an excavator driver who allegedly drove away the machine from a village in Ganjam district and led police on a dramatic 70-80-km chase before abandoning the vehicle and fleeing through paddy fields.“The accused was the excavator’s driver. We have identified him and are searching for him,” said Ramesh Chandra Pradhan, inspector-in-charge of Khallikote police station, on Tuesday. Police suspect the vehicle was taken with the intention of theft.According to police, the excavator, equipped with a digging attachment, was parked near a crusher…

Gurgaon: The department of town and country planning (DTCP) has rejected a plea in a matter pertaining to a 14-acre project, saying approvals remain legally intact.The plea had challenged the licence and change-of-developer approval for the project in Sector 58.The order was passed on Aug 13 following Punjab and Haryana high court directions of July 7. The court had directed DTCP to decide Advance India Projects’s (AIPL) representation after hearing stakeholders.It had ordered that no further allotments or creation of third-party rights be made until the representation was decided.DTCP heard AIPL, Commander Realtors Pvt Ltd, IREO-related entities and Oberoi Realty…