Politics

File photo: PM Modi with Russian President Vladimir Putin NEW DELHI: External affairs minister S Jaishankar has said Prime Minister Narendra Modi discussed the Ukraine conflict with Russian President Vladimir Putin in New Delhi and earlier in Bishkek, as India continues diplomatic engagement with Moscow, Kyiv and Washington on measures to protect civilian shipping, restore…

Photo credit: NASA Earth Observatory/Lauren Dauphin From high above the Weddell Sea, Vega Island appears to be staring back at Earth. NASA’s latest satellite images show a section of the ice-covered Antarctic island shaped like a grinning skull in profile, complete with a rocky eye socket, a dark glacial mouth and a jawbone formed by…

Gunfire at US stadium after Alabama football game leaves 1 dead One person was killed and several others were injured in a shooting in Alabama’s Birmingham on Saturday night, shortly after the Magic City Classic football game ended.Gunfire broke out around 7:50 pm (local time) at Legion Field stadium, AL.com reported.The Jefferson County Coroner’s Office…

Heavy snowfall in Nepal: Six Indian tourists go missing during trek Six Indian tourists, including two women and four men, have gone missing during a trek to Nepal’s Shey-Phoksundo Lake, the deepest lake in the country, following heavy snowfall in the Himalayan region, officials confirmed to news agency ANI.The tourists were travelling from Ward Nos….

Vaibhav Sooryavanshi (AP Photo) Former India batter Mohammad Kaif has questioned India’s decision to leave Vaibhav Sooryavanshi out of the fourth T20I against New Zealand. He believes the young batter should have been given another opportunity, especially after India had already secured the series.Sooryavanshi played the second and third T20Is after Ishan Kishan was ruled…

While supporting Bolsonaro, Trump however added that he had “no plans to meet” him US President Donald Trump on Saturday said he had no plans to meet Brazilian Senator Flavio Bolsonaro but the defeated presidential candidate who fled Brazil following his election loss could remain in the United States “as long as he wants”.“No plans…

Representative Image (AI-generated) A real-estate business can face financial difficulties, but concealing those problems from investors can turn a struggling company into a fraud case. A California property developer who continued seeking investments while his company was heavily in debt and facing serious cash-flow problems has now been sentenced to federal prison. More than 20…

Honorata Jamrozik and husband win lottery. Image Credit: Good News Network A woman who won £1 million in a UK lottery draw decided to share her good fortune by giving £5,000 to her neighbours of 14 years so their family could take its first holiday abroad. Honorata Jamrozik, a mother of two from Dartford, Kent,…

Representative Image (AI-generated) Losing access to a social media account can mean losing years of work, an established audience and an important source of business. That was the situation faced by a Canadian online publisher whose Facebook pages once attracted around 25 million followers. The company had submitted more than 500,000 advertisements to Meta over…

PM said the next major priority is fully securing India’s borders EKTA NAGAR, KEVADIA: PM Narendra Modi Saturday attacked opposition for abandoning its constitutional duty and instead resorting to politics of ‘obstruction’, driven by “despair and disappointment”. Addressing the Rashtriya Ekta Diwas parade – organised annually on the birth anniversary of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel –…