- Middle East
Three killed in flash floods in Iran
Tehran: At least three people were killed in flash floods in western Iran over the past 24 hours, Iranian Students’ News Agency (ISNA) reported. The victims were from the provinces of West…
- Telangana
Video: Sharmila offers to gift Constitution copy to Telangana CM
Hyderabad: YSR Telangana Party (YSRTP) president YS Sharmila on Friday offered to gift a copy of the Constitution to Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao to advise him to read it and govern…
- Telangana
Hyderabad: 125 feet Ambedkar statue saw light due to BJP, says Bandi
Hyderabad: Telangana BJP president Bandi Sanjay Kumar on Friday demanded that Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao apologise to Dalits for what he called betraying the community. Sanjay said Chief Minister KCR “failed”…
- Middle East
Saudi Crown Prince launches four ‘special economic’ zones
Riyadh: Saudi Arabian Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud have launched four new special economic zones in the kingdom. The zones, located in Riyadh, Jazan, Ras al-Khair and…
- India
Man poses as rich bachelor to cheat people on matrimonial site, held
New Delhi: A man was arrested for cheating innocent people by projecting himself as a rich bachelor on a matrimonial site, and used expensive cars to impress his victims, a Delhi Police…
- World
Highest sovereign defaults in 2022, two in 2023: Moody’s
Chennai: Global credit rating agency Moody’s Investors Service on Friday said that 2022 saw a spike in the annual sovereign bond defaults with seven countries defaulting on repayments. In 2023, there were…
- India
Iftar culture of UP political parties ends
Lucknow: The Iftar politics, that was once an important part of Uttar Pradesh politics, has gone missing. A large part of the month of Ramzan is over and not a single political…
- Pakistan
Pakistan’s parliament, SC on collision course
Islamabad: Pakistan’s parliament and judiciary have arrived at a standoff as the ruling alliance rejected the eight-member bench constituted to hear the petitions challenging the Supreme Court (Practice and Procedure) Bill 2023,…
- Technology
Twitter introduces 10K character long tweets amid fight with Substack
New Delhi: Before deleting all legacy Blue tick marks on April 20, Twitter on Friday introduced a feature that allows posts with 10,000 characters for paid Blue subscribers. Twitter now supports tweets…
- Technology
This AI-based smartphone app may help you quit smoking
London: Finding it hard to quit smoking? British researchers have developed a stop-smoking mobile app that senses where and when you might be triggered to light up and could help you quit.…
- Technology
Twitter’s Super Follows now called Subscriptions
New Delhi: Twitter CEO Elon Musk has renamed its “Super Follows” feature, which lets you subscribe to individual users to access some exclusive content, to simply “Subscriptions”. Users can find the feature…
- Technology
New malware in Discord can steal users’ info, warn researchers
New Delhi: Cyber-security researchers have discovered a new malware that is distributed over the popular chatting platform Discord which has more than 300 million active users. The team from CyberArk Labs spotted…
- Business
Just 11.3% women use payment apps on smartphones in India: Report
New Delhi: Despite a 50 per cent rise in the Indian users’ time spent over smartphones in the last year and the participation of women in the workforce rising consistently, only 11.3…
- India
Ramzan’s last Friday prayers disallowed in Kashmir’s Jamia Masjid
Srinagar: The management of Jamia Masjid in the Nowhatta area of Jammu and Kashmir’s Srinagar city said on Friday that the authorities had asked them not to hold ‘Jummat-ul-Vida’ (last Friday of…
- Technology
China’s chip imports drop 23% as US, India ramp up semiconductor manufacturing
Beijing: As the US and India bolster local semiconductor manufacturing, China’s chip imports nosedived 23 per cent in the first quarter of 2023, the media reported on Friday. China imported 108.2 billion…
