ASEAN top diplomats highlight their concerns during closed-door meeting Southeast Asian foreign ministers have expressed “serious concern” over renewed US-Iran hostilities, calling for an immediate cessation of attacks across all fronts in the Middle East and warning that the escalating conflict threatens global energy supplies, trade, and food security.“We are deeply concerned that these developments…
AI generated image used for representational purpose NEW DELHI: The Madhya Pradesh high court has issued notice to the state government on a plea alleging that nearly 1,900 government schools in the state are running without a single teacher.A division bench of Acting Chief Justice Vivek Rusia and Justice Pradeep Mittal took up the case…
Russia on Tuesday said it is “in touch” with its partners in New Delhi after four Indians were killed on board a merchant vessel off the coast of Ukraine.This comes after Kyiv claimed that Russia hit the Golden Leo—a Guinea-Bissau-flagged ship manned by a crew from India and Syria—with three cruise missiles on Sunday, killing…
Image Credit: Instagram/ @robbreport A sprawling mountain estate owned by billionaire businessman and collector Bill Koch is on track to sell for a fraction of its original asking price after spending nearly two years on the market. According to an exclusive report by The Wall Street Journal, Koch’s 52-acre Aspen property is under contract following…
File photo: A Chinese warship (Picture credit: AP) China conducted a rare live-fire naval exercise inside what Japan claims as its Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) near the remote Pacific island of Okinotorishima, prompting Tokyo to lodge a diplomatic protest with Beijing.According to Japan’s defence ministry, it was the first time a foreign navy had carried…
Narendra Modi; Mamata Banerjee NEW DELHI: Taking a swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, former West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday claimed that the prime minister “turned his car around and drove away” as a section of CJP protesters neared the Parliament complex during their march a day earlier.“You saw what happened in…
Woodhouse’s toad (Anaxyrus woodhousii) (Representational photo, Instagram/Tom Mathies) A rare Woodhouse’s toad has returned to the Springs Preserve in Las Vegas for the first time in nearly 65 years, giving conservationists fresh hope that wildlife is returning to a restored habitat where the species once lived naturally.The male toad was captured on a trail camera…
NEW DELHI: Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday urged opposition parties in West Bengal to bury their differences and unite against the Bharatiya Janata Party.Addressing the annual July 21 Martyrs’ Day rally organised near Birla Planetarium, Mamata also termed the leaders who defected from the TMC as “traitors”, saying they would never be allowed…
The march witnessed repeated clashes with police after protesters tried to breach barricades despite prohibitory orders under Section 163 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS). NEW DELHI: A young woman injured during the police action at the Cockroach Janta Party’s (CJP) ‘Sansad Chalo’ protest is on ventilator support at Delhi’s Ram Manohar Lohia (RML)…
Educationist and activist Sonam Wangchuk NEW DELHI: Scientist and activist Sonam Wangchuk on Tuesday received permission from the Delhi high court to be shifted from Safdarjung Hospital to a private hospital, amid his prolonged hunger strike over the alleged NEET paper leak.The court’s decision came after Wangchuk’s wife, Gitanjali Angmo, challenged a Single Judge’s order…
