There were 151 Indian police in UN peacekeeping operations, while 5,384 troops were deployed. United Nations: Calling for a reform of the UN Security Council, India has cautioned against its peacekeeping mandates as “not representative of current realities”. Intelligence Bureau Director Tapan Kumar Deka said: “We call for caution on any activity that is rooted
Google’s climate-changing emissions have increased 48 per cent in the past five years. San Francisco, United States: Google, despite its goal of achieving net-zero emissions, is pumping out more greenhouse gas than before as it powers data centers needed to support artificial intelligence, the company said. Google’s climate-changing emissions have increased 48 per cent in
Joe Biden, Donald Trump accused each other of being history’s worst. New Delhi: US President Joe Biden today blamed jet lag from his recent travels overseas for his disastrous debate performance against Republican rival Donald Trump. “It’s not an excuse, but an explanation,” he said while addressing a fundraiser. Biden said he “wasn’t very smart”
Officials have put the Hathras stampede death count at 116 Hathras (UP): Scores of bodies were lying on blocks of ice inside the government hospital here on Tuesday night in the aftermath of the deadly stampede at a religious congregation, as the wailing relatives of the victims waited outside in drizzle to take mortal remains
Beryl felled power lines and unleashed flash floods across smaller islands. KINGSTON / PORT-AU-PRINCE: Hurricane Beryl barreled toward Jamaica as a powerful Category 4 storm on Tuesday, threatening to dump rain on parts of Hispaniola after leaving at least three people dead on smaller islands in the eastern Caribbean. Tropical storm conditions were expected on
If the Labour Party wins in the UK, their leader Keir Starmer will replace Rishi Sunak as prime minister. London: The UK Labour Party is 99 per cent “certain” to secure more seats in Thursday’s general election than when it won a landslide victory in 1997, a major new poll said on Tuesday. The centre-left
The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) on Tuesday introduced 13 new courses across its various schools, including four MBA programmes in new domains. IGNOU’s new courses comprise MBA in Construction Management, MBA in Logistics and Supply Chain Management, MBA in Agribusiness Management, MBA in Healthcare and Hospital Management, PG Diploma in Rehabilitation Psychology, PG
Several pictures on social media show broken ceiling panels, with pipes and wires visible. An Air Europa flight from Madrid to Montevideo made an emergency landing in Brazil after it was hit by severe turbulence that left passengers stuck inside overhead bins and dozens of others with head, neck and chest and chest injuries. The
New Delhi: Lok Sabha member A Bimol Akoijam expressed his anguish over the absence of any reference to ethnic violence-hit Manipur in President Droupadi Murmu’s address to the joint sitting of both Houses of Parliament. In a fiery speech late Monday night, the first-time Congress member from Inner Manipur drew attention to the 60,000 people
Tirupati: Arani Srinivasulu, a prominent leader from the influential Balija community, has carved a unique political journey, having twice been elected as an MLA from two different cities. In 2019, the people of Chittoor chose him as their representative and this time, the voters of Tirupati have sent him to the Assembly. Over his more
Tirupati: The name Nara Chandrababu Naidu is synonymous with leadership and political acumen, not just in India but globally. Over his four-decade-long career, Naidu has served as chief minister for four times, amassing more than 14 years’ experience in the role. Born in a humble farmer’s family of Kharjura Naidu and Ammannamma in Naravaripalle of Chandragiri
Visakhapatnam: Andhra Pradesh Eastern Power Distribution Company Limited (APEPDCL) CMD Prudhvi Tej Immadi appealed to consumers to pay monthly electricity bills by downloading the company’s mobile app or through its official website. The appeal came into effect following the RBI’s directions that the service providers such as PhonePe, Paytm, Amazon Pay, Google Pay have stopped