- India
Watch: IT employee switches to Hindi during Zoom meet, colleagues object
Bengaluru: A clip of IT employees, attending a Zoom meeting with the HR Manager, calling out a colleague who starts speaking in Hindi despite requests to stick to the common language, went…
- World
Canadian student visa: New IRCC measures to verify letters of acceptance
Toronto: In one of its first measures to bolster international student programme and prevent abuse, Canadian immigration has launched an online portal to verify letters of acceptance (LOAs) that students submit in…
- Middle East
Assassination of Hamas leader by Israel an act of cowardice: Iran FM
Tel Aviv: Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian on Wednesday condemned the death of Saleh al-Arouri, the Hamas deputy chief who was killed in an Israeli strike in Lebanon, and termed it as…
- India
ED raids premises of Jharkhand IAS officer in Rajasthan for mining scam
Jaipur: Enforcement Directorate (ED) raids are going on in Rajasthan regarding Jharkhand mining scam. An ED team raided the premises of Ramniwas Yadav, Deputy Collector of Sahibganj, Jharkhand, and other locations in…
- India
Allahabad HC directs to pay Rs 2L to home guard as compensation
Lucknow: The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court has set aside the charge sheet and summoning order passed against a home guard in an alleged case of extortion from truck drivers…
- World
Australian PM launches probe into missing Iraq War documents
Canberra: Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Wednesday launched an inquiry into missing documents relating to the former government’s decision to join the Iraq War. Addressing his first press conference of 2024,…
- Bangalore
Woman sexually assaulted over land dispute in Karnataka; 20 booked
Belagavi: In a shocking incident, a woman was allegedly confined and sexually assaulted over a land dispute in Karnataka’s Belagavi district, and 20 people have been booked in this connection. In a…
- Hyderabad
Telangana govt plans Musi Riverfront development in Hyderabad
Hyderabad: Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy has directed officials to develop the Musi Riverfront in Hyderabad in three years. In the first phase, the Musi Riverfront will be developed on a…
- Bangalore
Karnataka childcare centre worker’s nose chopped off by angry garden owner
Belagavi: In a shocking incident, a childcare centre worker’s nose was chopped off by an angry owner of a garden in Karnataka’s Belagavi district after children plucked flowers without permission, police said…
- India
Adani-Hindenburg row: Supreme Court declines to order SIT, CBI probe
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday, January 3, refused to form any SIT or group of experts to investigate the Adani-Hindenburg controversy saying that the media and third party reports were…
- Middle East
UN humanitarians warn against increasing famine risk in Gaza
Tel Aviv: The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has warned against an increasing risk of famine in the Gaza Strip “amid intense conflict and restricted access”. In its…
- Bollywood
Kiran Rao attends Aamir Khan’s daughter Ira’s Haldi ceremony
Mumbai: Filmmaker Kiran Rao, who is awaiting the release of her upcoming film ‘Laapataa Ladies’, attended the Haldi ceremony of her ex-husband Aamir Khan’s daughter, Ira Khan in Mumbai on Tuesday. Kiran…
- Middle East
Turkey to block passage of Ukraine-bound minehunter ships
Ankara: Turkey has said that it will not let two minehunter ships donated by the UK to Ukraine pass through the Turkish Straits to the Black Sea in line with the 1936…
- World
Japan earthquake toll climbs to 64 as aftershocks continue
Tokyo: Amid continued aftershocks and reports of additional damages, the death toll due to a series of powerful earthquakes that struck the central Japanese prefecture of Ishikawa earlier this week, increased to…
- India
Cold wave tightens grip, Delhi shivers at min 7.3 degrees
New Delhi: As the cold wave has tightened its grip on Delhi, residents of the national capital woke up to a freezing morning on Wednesday with the minimum temperature recorded at 7.3…
