According to a report by Al Jazeera, at least 40 people were killed and around 1,000 others were injured in a major blast on Saturday at Shahid Raji port near Bandar Abbas in Southern Iran’s hormogen province on Saturday. After the explosion, Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called for a thorough investigation, urged security … Read more
Santos’ president told Brazilian superstar Neymar it was “time to return to (his) people” in a video published on social media on Tuesday. Club president Marcelo Teixeira took to Instagram to deliver the message to Neymar but did not officially confirm the 32-year-old’s return to the club where he first broke through in … Read more
Virat Kohli, former Indian cricket team captain, trained at the Arun Jaitely Stadium in New Delhi on Tuesday ahead of Delhi’s Ranji Trophy game against Railways starting Friday. The match marks Kohli’s return to Ranji Trophy for the first time since 2012, after BCCI’s diktat made it mandatory for all India stars to … Read more
Washington: India needs to buy more arms and ammunition from the US, stressed President Donald Trump during his phone call with Prime Minister Narendra Modi last night. The Republican leader who took office just a week ago also spoke about moving towards a “fair bilateral trade”. “The President emphasized the importance of India increasing its … Read more
Washington, United States: The Trump administration urged US Agency for International Development (USAID) workers to join the effort to transform how Washington allocates aid around the world in line with Trump’s “America First” policy. It threatened “disciplinary action” for any staff ignoring the administration’s orders. A sharply-worded memo sent on Saturday to more than 10,000 … Read more
The US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has instructed the department staff to freeze all applications for passports with “X” sex markers, following a new executive order signed by President Donald Trump on his first day of office. According to The Guardian, Mr Rubio, in an internal cable sent Thursday, informed the staff of the … Read more
Davos, Switzerland: US President Donald Trump issued a blunt warning to global elites in a video message to the World Economic Forum on Thursday: Make your product in the United States or pay tariffs.Beamed on a giant screen in the Swiss Alpine village of Davos, Trump received a loud round of applause from political and … Read more
OpenAI has told an Indian court that any order to remove training data powering its ChatGPT service would be inconsistent with its legal obligations in the United States, according to a recent filing seen by Reuters. The Microsoft-backed AI firm also said that it was not within the jurisdiction of Indian courts to hear a … Read more
US President Donald Trump told his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Wednesday to make a deal to end the grinding Ukraine war “now” or face tariff hikes and more sanctions. “If we don’t make a ‘deal,’ and soon, I have no other choice but to put high levels of Taxes, Tariffs, and Sanctions on anything … Read more
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar (file photo)Image source: PTI As relations between New Delhi and Ottawa soured over last year’s killing of Sikh separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Canada, Foreign Minister S Jaishankar on Monday accused Canada of double standards. Jaishankar mentioned how Canada treated other diplomats and their attempts to use diplomatic privileges while … Read more