- Andhra Pradesh
Purandeswari finally reacts to her appointment as Andhra BJP chief
Amaravati: After remaining silent for two days, former Union minister Daggubati Purandeswari has reacted to her appointment as BJP’s Andhra Pradesh unit president. She met BJP President J.P. Nadda in New Delhi…
- Middle East
Israel-Palestine conflict: India reiterates need for direct peace talks
New Delhi: India has reiterated the need for an early resumption of direct peace negotiations between Palestine and Israel. The absence of such negotiations and the lack of a clear political horizon…
- Middle East
Istanbul governor bans shisha smoking in public spaces
Istanbul: Authorities in Istanbul, Turkey’s most populous city, announced that smoking hookahs in public spaces will be banned until further notice. The Istanbul Governorate said in a written notice that the ban…
- Health
High BMI a poor indicator of death risk among overweight people: Study
New York: Body mass index (BMI) may not increase mortality independently of other risk factors in adults, according to a new study that stressed the need for incorporating other factors. The prevalence…
- Business
Threads using decentralised protocol clear victory for our cause: Mastodon CEO
San Francisco: Decentralised social media platform Mastodon CEO Eugen Rochko has said that Meta’s new microblogging platform Threads intends to become part of the decentralised social web by using the same standard…
- India
Ajit Pawar is ‘Kattappa’ & Sharad Pawar is ‘Bahubali’ in NCP poster war
New Delhi: Ahead of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) National Executive meeting in Delhi on Thursday, a poster war erupted as its student wing put up posters outside the party office dubbing…
- Technology
Spotify ends Apple in-app payment for premium subscribers
San Francisco: Music streaming giant Spotify has started informing its users who have subscribed to its Premium service through Apple’s in-app purchase system that it will no longer support it as a…
- Technology
Google Photos gets new video effects
San Francisco: Google has added 12 new video effects to the editing suite of the photo sharing and storage service ‘Google Photos’. The new effects include Dust Max, Black and White Film,…
- Middle East
Prominent politician assassinated in Yemen
Sanaa: A group of unidentfied assailants gunned down a prominent politician in Yemen’s southwestern province of Taiz, a local security official said. The assassination took place in the port city of Mocha…
- India
Kanhaiyalal murder case: Provide CCTV footage to accused, says NIA court
Jaipur: The NIA special court has ordered that the accused in the Kanhaiyalal murder case be provided with the CCTV footage installed at the victim’s shop. The court passed the order on…
- World
First IIT campus outside India to be set up in Tanzania’s Zanzibar
New Delhi: The first campus of an Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) outside India will be set up in Zanzibar, Tanzania. An MoU for setting up the campus of IIT Madras in…
- Technology
Zuckerberg-Musk begin online battle before cage fight
San Francisco: After Meta launched Twitter-rival ‘Threads’, Meta Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter-owner Elon Musk have started an online battle before their anticipated cage fight — dubbed as the fight…
- India
‘Caste-based survey right of govt’, says Nitish govt in Patna HC
Patna: While the hearing on the caste-based survey is undergoing in the Patna high court, the Solicitor General, P.K. Shahi and Additional Solicitor General Anjani Kumar informed the court that “it comes…
- Technology
Battery Smart raises $33 mn, targets 100K customers by 2025
New Delhi: EV battery swapping network Battery Smart on Thursday said it has raised $33 million in its Pre-Series B funding that will be utilised to add 100,000 customers to its network…
- Technology
New PharmEasy funding round ‘sudden death’ for founders: Ashneer Grover
New Delhi: Former BharatPe Co-founder Ashneer Grover on Thursday claimed that the new funding round by the beleaguered unicorn PharmEasy is not a “down round” but actually the end and will bring…
