Washington: President Joe Biden delivered a Christmas address from the White House on Thursday, wishing an increasingly divided America a “fresh start” including a purge of “the poison that has infected our politics and set us against one another.” The Democrat leader has recently taken a more aggressive stance against opposition Republicans, but with Christmas … Read more
Mirzapur: Sania Mirza, daughter of a TV mechanic from Mirzapur, has been selected to become a fighter pilot in the Indian Air Force and would be the country’s first Muslim girl and the state’s first IAF pilot. Sania Mirza is a resident of Jasovar village under the Mirzapur Dehat Kotwali police station area. She secured … Read more
Hong Kong/Shanghai: At the public hospital in Shanghai where Nora, a 30-year-old doctor, works, tension has spiraled since China relaxed its stringent zero-COVID policy on Dec. 7. Patients quarrel with doctors to access drugs that are in short supply, like cough medicines and painkillers. Medics are overloaded; infected staff continue to work because of a … Read more
The cryptocurrency entrepreneur Sam Bankman-Fried can post $250 million (nearly Rs. 2, 070 crore) bond and live in his parents’ home in California while he awaits trial on charges that he swindled investors and looted customer deposits on his FTX trading platform, a judge said Thursday. Assistant US Attorney Nicolas Roos said in the US … Read more
NASA has formally retired its Mars InSight lander, the first robotic probe specially designed to study the deep interior of a distant world, four years after it arrived on the surface of the red planet, the US space agency announced on Wednesday. Mission controllers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) near Los Angeles determined the … Read more
Kochi (Kerala): India’s biggest sporting gala is not too far from the horizon but the buzz for the Indian Premier League begins this December with the player auctions. The IPL auctions are a tense and exciting affair as teams try to outbid each other for some of the hottest properties in T20 cricket. The 16th … Read more
Three cases of Omicron BF.7 strain, that is driving the current wave of Covid infections in China, have been detected in India so far. The first case of the highly infectious strain with greater transmissibility was detected in Gujarat earlier in October. With 2 in Gujarat and 1 in Odisha, the number of Omicron BF.7 … Read more
Mumbai: Bharatiya Janata Party MLA Nitesh Rane on Thursday sought a “narco test” on Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Aaditya Thackeray in connection with the deaths of actor Sushant Singh Rajput and Disha Salian based on the allegations levelled by Lok Sabha MP Rahul Shewale of the Eknath Shinde faction. READ | How did Vicky Kaushal’s … Read more
Mumbai: Bollywood actor Taapsee Pannu is gleaming with pride at her recent awards achievement. At the Filmfare OTT Awards 2022 recently, the ‘Thappad’ actor secured a win in the ‘Best Actor, Web Original Film (Female)’ category for her role in the film ‘Looop Lapeta’. Taking to Instagram, the 35-year-old announced her win in an elaborately … Read more
Moscow: The Kremlin said Thursday that Washington and Kyiv were turning a deaf ear to Russia’s concerns following a historic visit by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to the United States. READ | Ukraine’s President Zelensky to meet Joe Biden, address Congress in Washington President Zelensky enjoyed a hero’s welcome on a lightning trip to Washington … Read more
New York: India, China and Russia abstained in the United Nations Security Council on a draft resolution that demanded an immediate end to violence and the release of all arbitrarily detained prisoners, including Aung San Suu Kyi and ex-president Win Myint. The 15-member Council has been split on Myanmar for decades and was previously only … Read more
The Delhi High Court on Thursday dismissed a plea opposing the permission given to Sikhs to carry kirpans while travelling on civilian flights in India. The plea, filed in a form of public interest litigation (PIL) by lawyer Harsh Vibhore Singhal, challenged the Centre’s notification issued on March 4 allowing Sikh passengers to carry kirpans … Read more
For fans of Tata companies, 2023 is going to be an interesting year as at least two Tata group IPOs are lined up in the next year. From the information available in the public domain, Tata Technologies and Tata Play are the two companies from the house of Tatas that are likely to go public … Read more
New Delhi: Amid demand by Opposition parties to immediately stop all international flights from China, government sources said that there is no order issued by the central government to curb incoming flights from the country where a wave of Covid cases has been reported. ‘We don’t have any direct flights from China to India or … Read more
Mumbai: The Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena faction today slammed the Centre over its letter sent to Rahul Gandhi and Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot urging them to consider suspending or postponing the Bharat Jodo Yatra if Covid protocols could not be followed. READ | ‘This fight is thousands of years old…’: Rahul Gandhi during Bharat … Read more