- Sports
Messi, Mbappe and Benzema nominated for 2022 FIFA Best Men’s Player
Geneva: Lionel Messi, Kylian Mbappe and Karim Benzema have been named as the finalists for The FIFA Best Men’s Football Player Award in 2022, soccer’s world governing body FIFA announced on Friday.…
- World
Sweden beefs up security following Quran-burning
Stockholm: Swedish police has said that they had launched an operation to bolster security in the capital Stockholm after the Security Service reported an increased number of threats against the country. Security…
- Kolkata
Bengal-Centre tussle erupts over expenses for bearing cost of central armed forces
Kolkata: A fresh tussle has erupted between the Central and West Bengal governments over the expenses towards deployment of central armed forces personnel in the state on various occasions. On Friday, Union…
- Middle East
Syrians’ resilience to cope with earthquake aftermath ‘diminished drastically’: ICRC chief
Damascus: International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) President Mirjana Spoljaric has said that Syrians’ resilience to cope with the aftermath of the massive earthquakes is “diminished drastically” after more than 10…
- India
Over 370 Indian passports seized for breaching Yemen travel ban
New Delhi: Union Minister of State for External Affairs, V. Muraleedharan, told the Lok Sabha on Friday that the government has seized a total of 372 passports of those who have travelled…
- India
GoDaddy CEO Aman Bhutani lays off 8% of workforce
New Delhi: Aman Bhutani, CEO of global web hosting platform GoDaddy, has announced to lay off 8 per cent of the workforce amid increasingly challenging macroeconomic conditions. In an email to employees,…
- Technology
Tesla Autopilot gets clean chit in fatal US crash
San Francisco: Elon Musk-run Tesla has received a clean chit from the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) in a fatal crash involving a Tesla Model S Autopilot system in 2021. The…
- Middle East
Syria says US claims to waive sanctions for earthquake relief ‘misleading’
Damascus: The US’ latest move to ease the sanctions imposed on Syria to support earthquake relief efforts is “misleading and aims to give a false humanitarian impression,” the Syrian Foreign Ministry said…
- India
Arrest warrant against ex-Indian women’s football coach in POCSO case
New Delhi: A Delhi court has issued an arrest warrant against former Indian U-17 women’s football coach Alex Mario Ambrose accused of sexually abusing a woman athlete in June 2022 when the…
- World
Court order against five Indians for ‘exploiting’ students in UK
London: A UK government investigative agency for labour exploitation has said that it has succeeded in getting a court order against five people from Kerala for suspected labour abuse of more than…
- World
Omicron subvariant XBB.1.5 prevalence jumps to 75 pc in US
Los Angeles: The highly transmissible Omicron subvariant XBB.1.5 now accounts for about three-fourths of all Covid-19 cases reported in the US this week, according to the estimates released by the US Centers…
- India
CBI arrests official of principal controller defence accounts
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested a senior Auditor working in the office of Principal Controller of Defence Accounts, Pensions, Prayagraj (Uttar Pradesh), for allegedly demanding a bribe…
- India
Centre to offload 30 lakh MT wheat to cool down prices
New Delhi: With a view to cool down the rising prices of wheat and atta, the government has decided to offload 30 lakh metric tons of wheat under Open Market Disposal Scheme…
- India
HDFC Bank officials sentenced to three-year RI in bribery case
New Delhi: A special CBI court in Pune on Friday awarded three-year rigorous imprisonment to two HDFC Bank officials for demanding bribe of Rs two lakh for sanction and disbursement of a…
- India
Darjeeling politics: Bengal govt to grant land deeds to tea garden workers
Kolkata: As the fresh political equation in the hills of Darjeeling involving the trio of Bimal Gurung, Ajay Edwards and Binoy Tamang is becoming a major threat to the Bharatiya Gorkha Prajatantrik…
