Donald Trump departing from China (Image/AP) US staff and members of the travelling press accompanying President Donald Trump reportedly dumped all materials handed out by Chinese officials before boarding Air Force One on Friday.The move came as Trump concluded his high-profile two-day visit to Beijing after meetings with Chinese President Xi Jinping.According to the White…
Meningitis outbreak in Berkshire causes panic in three schools There have been reports that two Berkshire schools have been linked to an outbreak of meningitis that caused the death of one student at Henley College. The students who are undergoing treatment are attending Reading Blue Coat School and Highdown Secondary School and Sixth Form Centre,…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday strongly rejected reports claiming that the Centre was considering imposing a cess, tax or surcharge on foreign travel to offset the fiscal impact of the ongoing conflict-linked economic pressures.Responding to the report in a post on X, PM Modi said, “This is totally false. Not an iota…
US President Donald Trump said that Washington agreed to a ceasefire with Iran as a “favour” to Pakistan.Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One while returning from China, Trump said the US had accepted the truce at Pakistan’s request and had no plans, for now, to resume bombing Iran.“We did the ceasefire as a request…
NEW DELHI: Two caveat pleas were moved in the Supreme Court on Friday, hours after the Madhya Pradesh high court declared the disputed Bhojshala-Kamal Maula complex in Dhar as a temple of Goddess Vagdevi (Saraswati). The plea was filed anticipating a possible challenge to the verdict by the Muslim side.A caveat plea is generally filed…
Screenshot of video tweeted by PTI NEW DELHI: A fire broke out in an empty coach of the Hyderabad–Jaipur Special train at Hyderabad’s Nampally railway station on Friday evening, the South Central Railway said. The incident occurred while the rake was being placed on the platform ahead of its scheduled departure, it added. According to…
FBI said it’s still searching for Monica Witt who spied for Iran and fled to Iran in 2013. The FBI reinforced its search for Monica Witt who is wanted in the US for allegedly spying for Iran, using her post as a US Air Force officer, before fleeing to Iran. “The FBI has not forgotten…
Rahul Gandhi with newly elected Congress MLAs of West Bengal/Image: ANI If NOTA, or None of the Above, is meant to be a protest button, Bengal’s 2026 assembly election showed a mellowing of that protest. But the same data also flashed a sharper warning, not for TMC or the Left, but for Congress.Across the comparable…
Why Leonard Lauder gave one of the world’s greatest Cubist collections to the Met? Image credit – Wikimedia When it was announced that Leonard A. Lauder would be gifting his Cubist art collection to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2013, the news was met with immediate interest throughout the entire art world. His collection…
NEW DELHI: Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal on Friday hit out at recent remarks by RSS general secretary Dattatreya Hosabale that India’s doors for dialogue with Pakistan ‘should not be closed’, calling it an ‘obnoxious statement’.Addressing a press conference, Sibal said that if he had made similar remarks, he would have immediately been labelled ‘anti-national’…