PM Modi holds bilateral meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping on sidelines of BRICS summit NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping held a bilateral meeting in New Delhi on Saturday, shortly after the declaration of the Brics Summit 2026 was adopted, with the two leaders set to discuss bilateral cooperation.The…
Nigerian-origin professor at Carnegie Mellon University Uju Anya’s social media posts trigger outrage. Carnegie Mellon University has launched a review of social media posts attributed to Nigerian-born professor Uju Anya after a fresh backlash over remarks described by the university as “hostile and threatening”. The university said Anya, an associate professor of second-language acquisition in…
PM Modi greets Brics leaders against Tamil Nadu’s Ramanathaswamy temple backdrop NEW DELHI: Tamil Nadu found a prominent place in Brics summit for the second day in a row on Saturday, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi welcoming world leaders at Bharat Mandapam against the backdrop of the iconic Ramanathaswamy Temple in Rameswaram.This came a day…
Australia could be sitting on a hidden stockpile of hundreds of tonnes of silver as millions of solar panels approach the end of their working lives. More than one million tonnes of waste solar panels are expected across the country by 2050, containing an estimated 300–500 tonnes of silver. Much of that valuable metal is…
NEW DELHI: A Mumbai-based Air India pilot died during a Delhi layover on Friday. The pilot, in his 40s, had recently moved from Air India Express to AI. He was found unconscious at his room in The Gran, Vasant Kunj, and rushed to a hospital where he was declared dead.“Air India is deeply saddened at…
Chicago’s founding problem had always been plumbing. The city drew its drinking water from Lake Michigan and emptied sewers into the Chicago River, which flowed straight into Lake Michigan. But every rainstorm flushed the stockyards and slaughterhouses and a million people’s waste out toward the water intakes. This is why the nineteenth-century city was periodically…
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian met and held talks with UAE Crown Prince Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan New Delhi: Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian met UAE crown prince Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan on Saturday on the sidelines of the Brics Summit in New Delhi.The two leaders held talks during the meeting, but…
Amritpal Singh extradited from Moldova to face multiple criminal cases in Punjab NEW DELHI: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), in coordination with the ministry of external affairs (MEA), ministry of home affairs (MHA) and Punjab Police, has secured the extradition of Red Notice subject Amritpal Singh alias Gurpal Singh from Moldova to India, the…
PM Modi, Brics leaders participate in tree plantation NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and leaders of Brics member countries on Saturday participated in a joint tree plantation at the lawns outside Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi, where the 18th Brics Summit is being held.The leaders also posed together for a family photograph as part…
Saudi Arabia shut down its major East-West oil pipeline after drone attacks struck pumping stations in the Riyadh and Madinah regions. US President Donald Trump on Saturday said Iran was probably responsible for an aerial attack on Saudi Arabia that forced the shutdown of the kingdom’s East-West oil pipeline, a key route for exporting crude…