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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Judge Tony Graf Jr. pushed accused Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson’s preliminary hearing into July and rejected a bid to ban cameras from the courtroom, marking significant pretrial developments in the high-profile case.Graf moved the preliminary hearing to July 6 through July 10, and denied Robinson’s motion to ban cameras and electronic media from the courtroom, allowing continued media coverage as the case moves forward.The delay comes as both sides continue to receive and process a large and growing volume of evidence. Prosecutors told the court discovery is ongoing, including materials from…

The Indian Embassy in Spain on Sunday said the two Indian crew members onboard the hantavirus-hit Dutch cruise vessel MV Hondius are “healthy and asymptomatic” and have been evacuated to the Netherlands for quarantine under health safety protocols. In a statement, the embassy said the Dutch-flagged vessel carrying around 150 people, including two Indian nationals, had arrived in Spain after anchoring off the Canary Islands following the hantavirus outbreak onboard. “The 02 Indian nationals are healthy and asymptomatic. As informed by the Spanish National Center for Emergency Monitoring and Coordination (CENEM), the 02 Indian nationals who were travelling as crew…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A student was killed, and four others were wounded after gunfire broke out Friday night at a Tennessee park where teens had gathered for a pre-prom photo session, authorities said.Officers responded to the 900 block of Key Corner Street — Webb Banks Passive Park in Brownsville, about 60 miles northeast of Memphis — and found five people suffering from gunshot wounds. All five victims were taken to a local hospital, where one was later pronounced dead, a spokesperson for the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) told Fox News Digital.”TBI special agents are…

NEW DELHI: India’s school education system has solved much of the “getting children into school” challenge, but is struggling with a tougher problem – keeping them there long enough to complete secondary and higher secondary education.The stress points are now visible higher up the schooling ladder – gross enrolment ratio (GER) drops from 90.9% at primary level to 58.4% at higher secondary, while secondary-stage dropout rate rises sharply to 11.5% from 0.3% at primary, according to a new Niti Aayog report.The report – School Education System in India: Temporal Analysis and Policy Roadmap for Quality Enhancement – paints a picture…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Kentucky authorities arrested a woman accused of giving her 22-month-old child a tattoo.The suspect, identified as 27-year-old Brook McDaniel, was taken into custody last Monday by Kentucky State Police (KSP), according to the Adair County Regional Jail.During a home visit, investigators said they discovered the family living in “deplorable” conditions and found the toddler with a black dot tattoo on his arm, along with visible redness surrounding the area, local outlet LEX 18 reported, citing a uniform citation.Witnesses told investigators that McDaniel allegedly tattooed the child while she was tattooing herself, the…

BENGALURU: India’s space PSU NewSpace India Limited (NSIL) may soon be headed by a private sector honcho with the selection process for the chairman and managing director (CMD) post having entered the final leg. Sources confirmed to TOI that the next CMD of the Space PSU is expected to be from the private sector with a senior person from US aerospace major Boeing as the front-runner. This will be the first time a non-DoS (Department of Space) person would head Isro’s commercial arm. Since its incorporation in March 2019, NSIL has been headed by Isro insiders — Suma Devaki Ram,…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Investigators in California have concluded a search at a home tied to convicted killer Paul Flores in the decades-old disappearance of Kristin Smart, saying they did not recover her remains but will continue analyzing evidence collected at the property.The San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office said Saturday that detectives wrapped up their search at a home on East Branch Street in Arroyo Grande, which is linked to the 1996 disappearance of Smart.”We did not recover Kristin Smart,” the sheriff’s office said in a statement. “Detectives will be evaluating any evidence we have…

NEW DELHI: Government has now allowed venture capital, private equity, infrastructure and pension funds to bid for highway projects under Public-Private Partnership (PPP) model, marking a paradigm shift since the sector was opened to private players in the early 2000s. So far, only highway developers and construction companies were eligible to bid for such projects.The road transport ministry has modified the bidding conditions for Build-Operate-Transfer (Toll) projects, as part of its efforts to attract greater private investment into the sector. Officials said Alternative Investment Funds (AIFs) and Foreign Investment Funds (FIFs), with their deep pockets, are expected to bring in…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Savannah Guthrie issued a heartbreaking Mother’s Day plea Sunday as the search for her mother, Nancy Guthrie, continues.In an emotional Instagram post, the “Today” co-host shared a video filled with memories of her mom, alongside a message urging the public to help.”Mother, daughter, sister, Nonie — we miss you with every breath. We will never stop looking for you. We will never be at peace until we find you,” Savannah Guthrie wrote. “We need help. Someone knows something that can make the difference.”She added, “Call 1800CALLFBI. You can be anonymous and the…

NEW DELHI: Indian Railways is staring at higher electricity costs after the Supreme Court last week ruled that the national transporter qualifies as a “consumer” under the Electricity Act. As a result, it will remain liable to pay cross-subsidy surcharge (CSS) and additional surcharge while buying electricity through open access for its own consumption, impacting railways’ operating ratio.This is likely to increase railways’ power procurement expenses. It had argued that railways should not be treated as a conventional consumer because it distributes electricity across its vast operational network. However, SC rejected this contention and clarified that railways purchases electricity through…