- India
Nitish distributes portfolios, retains Home; Samrat Choudhary gets Finance
Patna: Six days after the formation of the NDA government in Bihar, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Saturday distributed portfolios among the cabinet ministers. Nitish Kumar held Home and General Administration,…
- Bangalore
Karnataka: Pavagada to reclaim world’s largest solar park title
Bengaluru: The Karnataka government is all set to expand the production capacity of the country’s second-largest Pavagada solar park in Tumakuru district from 2,050 MW (2.05 gigawatt, or GW) to 2,350 MW…
- Middle East
US strikes will bring disastrous consequences for the region: Iraq
Baghdad: Iraq has said that the US retaliatory strikes will bring disastrous consequences for the region, a media report said. According to the Iraqi government, at least 16 people, including civilians, have…
- Bangalore
Karnataka CM to lead protest in Delhi on Feb 7 over funds from Centre
Bengaluru: Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar on Saturday said that the Congress government will stage a protest in New Delhi on Feb 7 over non-allocation of funds to address the drought…
- Bangalore
Denied entry into Karnataka’s Chennakeshava temple’s due to caste: Hindu seer
Chitradurga: Kaginele Kanaka mutt pontiff Eshwaranandapuri Swami, who belongs Kuruba (shepherd) community, has claimed that he was not allowed to enter the sanctum sanctorum of historical Chennakeshava temple in Baguru village of…
- Andhra Pradesh
Tahsildar murdered in Visakhapatnam
Visakhapatnam: A government official was murdered by an unidentified man in Kommadi, a suburb of Visakhapatnam, police said on Saturday. Ramanaiah, a tahsildar, was attacked by the assailant with iron rods on…
- Middle East
Houthis say they strike Israel with ballistic missiles
Sanaa: Yemen’s armed Houthi group has said that they have struck the Israeli city of Eilat with several ballistic missiles. Houthi military spokesman Yahya Sarea in a statement aired by the group’s…
- Bollywood
‘Fake news’, insists Poonam Pandey’s ‘Lock Upp’ co-star Vinit Kakar
Mumbai: Vinit Kakar, who was a co-contestant with Poonam Pandey in the first season of the Kangana Ranaut-hosted reality show ‘Lock Upp’, has dismissed the news about the death of the reality…
- Business
Zuckerberg fifth richest person in the world following surge in Meta share price
New York: Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg is now the fifth richest person in the world following a surge in Meta’s share price that has seen his net worth increase more than…
- Business
Apple not to license Masimo’s patents despite Watch import ban
San Francisco: Apple has no intention to license healthcare company Masimo’s blood oxygen detection to end the Apple Watch import ban. Apple CEO Tim Cook told CNBC that the company is focused…
- News
Zoom lays off 150 employees, Okta slashes 400 jobs
New Delhi: Video communication platform Zoom is laying off nearly 150 employees, or less than 2 per cent of the company’s workforce. Zoom said the layoffs are not company-wide and it will…
- Business
Some customers had tears in their eyes at Vision Pro launch: Tim Cook
San Francisco: As Apple CEO Tim Cook greeted first customers of the $3,499 mixed reality (MR) headset Vision Pro, he realised some of them even had tears in their eyes as they…
- Business
Jeff Bezos to sell 50 mn Amazon shares in next 12 months
San Francisco: Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is planning to sell at least 50 million company shares in the next year, the media reported. According to a filing with the US Securities and…
- Business
Time to transform cybersecurity as good vs bad GenAI debate rages
Bangkok: As industries, governments and law enforcement agencies all over the world struggle to keep up with the vast and ever-evolving cybercrime ecosystem, specialist cyber defenders building and upgrading firewalls, say that…
- Bollywood
Akshay Kumar becomes target of deepfake video; actor plans legal action
Mumbai: In a concerning turn of events, actor Akshay Kumar finds himself in the crosshairs of a deepfake scandal, as a fabricated video has surfaced online, featuring the superstar promoting a game…
