MREIJEH, Lebanon, June 7, 2026 (AP) — Israel struck Beirut’s southern suburbs without warning on Sunday, days after a ceasefire agreement in Washington went into effect and despite a U.S. request not to attack Lebanon ‘s capital. Lebanon’s state-run national
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New Delhi, Jun 7 (PTI) As many as 23 political parties of the opposition INDIA bloc will meet on Monday to redraw their strategy to take on the BJP and iron out differences amid changed power dynamics after the defeat
Bengaluru, Jun 6 (PTI) AICC chief Mallikarjun Kharge has declared total assets worth Rs 38.76
BENGALURU, June 6 (Reuters) – India has ordered cooking oil makers and importers to sell
New Delhi, Jun 5 (PTI) Gold prices declined by Rs 400 to Rs 1.59 lakh per 10 grams in the national capital on Friday
Mumbai, Jun 5 (PTI) The rupee appreciated 81 paise to close at 94.93 (provisional) against the US dollar on Friday after the Reserve Bank
Mumbai, Jun 5 (PTI) Benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty quoted higher on Friday afternoon after the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) kept its benchmark
NEW DELHI, June 5 (Reuters) – India said on Friday it would exempt foreign institutional investors and the Bank for International Settlements from capital
MUMBAI, June 5 (Reuters) – The RBI (Reserve Bank of India) on Friday kept its policy repo rate unchanged at 5.25%, opting to look
Solna (Sweden), Jun 5 (The Conversation) Exercise is important for your heart and cardiovascular health. But for years, research has suggested that very fit
London, Jun 4 (The Conversation) In 2006, Carl Koch sued his employer for damages after burn injuries during a workplace accident that left him
Jun 1 (The Conversation) India and Pakistan are no strangers to heat. This time of year is the worst, as heat peaks before the
New Delhi, May 28 (PTI) More than 92 per cent of Indian women want sanitary pads to be made available as an essential item
New Delhi, May 27 (PTI) A one-time gene therapy for treating hypercholesterolaemia could lower up to 62 per cent ‘bad’ cholesterol in the blood,
Bengaluru, May 28 (PTI) Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah informed his cabinet colleagues of his decision to step down, during a breakfast hosted at his residence, official sources said on Thursday. His current deputy and possible successor, D K Shivakumar and other cabinet colleagues attended the breakfast meeting. In a picture shared by the Chief Minister’s Office, Siddaramaiah is seen hugging
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WASHINGTON, April 23, 2026 (AP) — US Navy Secretary John Phelan is
WASHINGTON, April 21, 2026 (AP) — Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer is out
NEW DELHI, April 7 (Reuters) – Air India CEO Campbell Wilson has
WASHINGTON, March 17 (Reuters) – The head of the National Counterterrorism Center
Bengaluru, Jun 6 (PTI) Congress general secretary and Karnataka in-charge Randeep Singh Surjewala on Saturday claimed that senior leader Ramalinga Reddy had withdrawn his resignation from the ministerial position after discussions with the party leadership. He attributed the episode to a misunderstanding and asserted that the veteran leader would continue to serve as a minister in the Congress government. Surjewala
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NEW DELHI, June 6, 2026 (AP) — Hundreds of supporters of the
Chennai, Jun 5 (PTI) Backed by the ruling TVK, Congress leader Praveen
DUBAI, June 5 (Reuters) – Iran has reaffirmed support for its Lebanese
NEW YORK, May 15, 2026 (AP) — The U.S. government has agreed to settle a lawsuit filed against one of the world’s richest people who is accused of duping investors by concealing that his company’s huge solar energy project in India was being facilitated by an alleged bribery scheme, according to court filings published Thursday. In the lawsuit filed in
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May 15 (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department is close to dropping
NEW DELHI, April 24 (Reuters) – A bribery investigation by India’s federal
Bharat Mathur, a Senior Vice President at a large corporate conglomerate, as
JERUSALEM, April 10 (Reuters) – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has asked to
New Delhi, Jun 7 (PTI) The National Testing Agency (NTA) on Sunday released the exam city intimation slip for the NEET-UG 2026 re-examination, scheduled to be held on June 21. Candidates can now check their allotted examination city for NEET-UG 2026. Log in with your application number and password to view and download your slip, the NTA said in a post on X. According to a public notice issued by the agency, the re-examination will be conducted in pen-and-paper mode from 2 pm to 5:15 pm across 551 cities in India and 14 cities abroad. The NTA clarified that the
Cities around the world are planting more trees to cope with rising urban heat. But our research shows trees alone are often not enough. In some cases, the wrong kind of greening can even make streets feel less comfortable on a hot day. We compared field measurements from Melbourne, Munich and Hong Kong to test how different kinds of urban planting changed the heat people experience outdoors. The results showed layered vegetation – where trees are combined with shrubs and ground cover – often cooled cities more effectively than trees alone. We also found local climate and street design strongly
GALPATHA, Sri Lanka, June 5, 2026 (AP) — The site of the deadly fire at an unregistered nursing home for people with mental illnesses in Western Sri Lanka lay abandoned Friday as the death toll rose from 12 to 13 after one of the injured succumbed to injuries at the hospital, an official said. Glasses cases, medicines and reclining chairs lay strewn around the burned-out shell of the home in Anguruwatota, a small town about 55 kilometers (34 miles) southeast of the capital, Colombo. The surviving residents have been shifted to a nearby nursing home. According to police, 71 people
Chennai, Jun 5 (PTI) Former Tamil Nadu BJP chief K Annamalai, who quit the party on Friday, said he was beginning a new political journey aiming to usher in “common man politics,” distancing itself from traditional personality-driven politics and rejecting sycophancy and hereditary power. Emphasising the need for such a new political movement, he said it would not be about a name, but about an idea. “Let’s change ourselves, and change will happen naturally… the movement’s core principle is let’s change, let’s bring change (maruvom, maatruvom),” the former IPS officer said in his social media address, outlining his political approach.
Srinagar, Jun 5 (PTI) National Conference president Farooq Abdullah on Friday said his party will attend the meeting of the INDIA bloc in Delhi on June 8. “The meeting is going to taking place. Omar (Abdullah) or I, one of us will go. Obviously, we are part of that. We will be there,” Abdullah told reporters in Hazratbal here. To a question on LoP Sunil Shamra’s remark about Article 370 having been “burried”, he said the party will keep the issue of the special status alive “till eternity”. “The day all of us get buried in Kashmir, it (Article 370)
June 5 (Reuters) – Indian companies are willing to deepen their presence in Venezuela, Oil Minister Hardeep Singh Puri told Venezuela’s interim President Delcy Rodriguez when they met in New Delhi on Thursday. Rodriguez has invited an Indian energy delegation to visit and explore opportunities in the South American country’s energy sector, India’s oil ministry said in a statement on Friday.
MREIJEH, Lebanon, June 7, 2026 (AP) — Israel struck Beirut’s southern suburbs without warning on Sunday, days after a ceasefire agreement in Washington went into effect and despite a U.S. request not to attack Lebanon ‘s capital. Lebanon’s state-run national news agency said two people were killed and 11 wounded in a preliminary count. Iran had warned that an attack on Beirut would renew full-scale war across the Mideast, even as Pakistan tries to restart talks between Tehran and Washington. Iran wants a deal to include ending the war in Lebanon. There was no immediate White House comment. Israeli Prime
New Delhi, Jun 7 (PTI) As many as 23 political parties of the opposition INDIA bloc will meet on Monday to redraw their strategy to take on the BJP and iron out differences amid changed power dynamics after the defeat of regional anchors TMC and DMK in the recent assembly polls. Top leaders of opposition parties including Congress’ Rahul Gandhi and Mallikarjun Kharge, TMC’s Mamata Banerjee and Abhishek Banerjee, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, Tejashwi Yadav of RJD and Uddhav Thackeray of Shiv Sena (UBT), besides Left leaders and those from smaller parties, are likely to attend the meeting at
Bengaluru, Jun 6 (PTI) AICC chief Mallikarjun Kharge has declared total assets worth Rs 38.76 crore in his Rajya Sabha nomination affidavit filed here. In his affidavit, Kharge has declared movable assets worth Rs 11.37 crore, comprising Rs 6.60 crore in his own name, Rs 4.41 crore in his wife Radha Bai’s name, and Rs 36.09 lakh held under a Hindu Undivided Family (HUF). The affidavit shows that Kharge has immovable assets worth Rs 8.31 crore, his wife has immovable assets worth Rs 9.86 crore, and the HUF holds immovable assets worth Rs 9.22 crore, taking the total immovable assets
BENGALURU, June 6 (Reuters) – India has ordered cooking oil makers and importers to sell their products only in a fixed set of pack sizes, a move the government said on Saturday would help shoppers compare prices across brands more easily. The order targets a common pricing tactic in the world’s most populous nation, where oils sold in odd, non-standard sizes leave buyers unable to tell which brand offers the best value for a kitchen staple. Here are the details:
