- Middle East
Egyptian Prez, Omani Sultan meet on bilateral, regional issues
Cairo: Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi and visiting Sultan of Oman Haitham bin Tariq Al Said have met in Egypt’s capital Cairo on bilateral and regional issues. The two leaders agreed on continued…
- India
BBC summoned in defamation case over Modi documentary
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Monday issued summons to the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) on a defamation suit filed by an NGO claiming that its documentary cast a slur on…
- Technology
India consumer storage market declines 4% as smartphones’ memory go up
New Delhi: The consumer storage market (micro-SD, flash drive, and SD card) market in India witnessed a 4 percent (year-on-year) decline in shipments in the first quarter, a report showed on Monday.…
- Middle East
Iran-backed Hezbollah stages military drill in Lebanon
Beirut: Hezbollah, an Iran-backed Lebanese group, has staged a military drill in southern Lebanon. The event was held in Aramta, a village in the Jezzine district of southern Lebanon, ahead of the…
- World
Epstein threatened Bill Gates over his affair with Russian bridge player: Report
San Francisco: Late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein once threatened Bill Gates via an email over the Microsoft cofounder’s affair with a Russian bridge player, the media reported. According to The Wall…
- India
Congress workers ‘purify’ Karnataka Vidhana Soudha with cow urine
Bengaluru: Congress workers in Karnataka on Monday performed ‘purification’ rituals at Vidhana Soudha, the state legislature. A group of ruling party workers were seen along with a priest doing cleansing rituals with…
- India
Prez office reduced to tokenism: Kharge on PM inaugurating new Parliament House
New Delhi: Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge on Monday slammed the BJP government at the Centre over the inauguration of the new Parliament House by Prime Minister Narendra Modi scheduled on May 28…
- Politics
MP BJP continues to face jolts within old-timers’ families
Bhopal: In the run-up to the Madhya Pradesh Assembly elections, the state’s ruling BJP is witnessing several jolts as disgruntled leaders continued to shift to the Congress. More worryingly, cracks are surfacing…
- India
‘Rs 2,000 note only helped keepers of black money’, says Chidambaram
New Delhi: Hitting out at the Centre’s move to withdraw the Rs 2,000 banknotes from circulation, senior Congress leader P. Chidambaram on Monday said that the Rs 2,000 denomination note “only helped…
- Tollywood News
Ram Charan hails NTR for recognising the power of Telugu cinema
Hyderabad: ‘RRR’ star Ram Charan has said it was Tollywood hero-turned-Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister, N.T. Rama Rao, who put Telugu on the world map and that he will live for as long…
- India
Odisha CM inducts 3 new Cabinet Ministers
Bhubaneswar: Effecting a minor reshuffle, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Monday inducted three new Ministers in his Cabinet. Senior BJD MLAs Bikram Keshari Arukha, Sudam Marndi and Sarada Prasad Nayak took…
- Bollywood
Aahana Kumra loses her cool when fan touched her during photocall
Mumbai: Actress Aahana Kumra, who is known for films like ‘Lipstick Under My Burkha’, ‘Inside Edge’ and ‘Rangbaaz’, recently lost her cool at a fan breached her personal space and touched her…
- India
Two ex-UP legislators convicted after 20 yrs
Basti: An MP/MLA court has convicted two former legislators and five others for attacking administrative officials and looting ballot papers in Uttar Pradesh’s Basti district, following a dispute over recounting of votes…
- Technology
Instagram up after a brief outage, company says ‘technical issue’
New Delhi: Meta-owned Instagram came back to life after being down for over an hour early on Monday as users witnessed errors saying the app couldn’t refresh, and the website went blank…
- World
5.6-magnitude quake jolts Northern California
Los Angeles: An earthquake measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale struck off the Northern California coast, according to the US Geological Survey (USGS). In its report, the USGS said the quake on…
