They were received by Union minister Piyush Goyal and TN BJP president Nainar Nagenthran at Chennai airport. Photo by R Ramesh Shankar CHENNAI: A total of 348 Indian citizens from different parts of Tamil Nadu and its neighbouring states, stranded in Iran for more than a month since a war broke out in West Asia,…
“Hide your strength and bide your time” – China’s transformational Premier Deng Xiaoping once advised. He was referring to keeping external factors at bay, while rather focusing on internal development, urging patience, strategic restraint and the quiet accumulation of national power. And in Xi Jinping‘s China, the accumulation of power and control over institutions is…
NEW DELHI: Ahead of the Tamil Nadu assembly elections, actor Vijay Thalapathy has positioned himself as an alternative for the people in a state where politics, for a very long time, has revolved around the DMK and the AIADMK.With its ideological differences with the NDA and political tussle with the DMK, TVK has emerged as…
In Singapore, an unconventional fitness trend is reshaping how older adults stay active. According to reports by Agence France-Presse, groups of retirees, some in their 50s through their 80s, are taking part in adapted “geriatric parkour” sessions designed to improve strength, balance and confidence. Rather than extreme stunts, these classes focus on controlled, functional movements…
As thousands of Oracle employees awoke earlier this week to an email informing them they had lost their jobs, many were unaware that the technology company had been filing large numbers of applications to hire foreign workers. According to federal data from the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), Oracle submitted about 3,126 petitions to…
NEW DELHI: Days after the Aam Aadmi Party removed its Rajya Sabha deputy leader Raghav Chadha, accusing him of shying away from speaking out against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and engaging in “soft PR”, the sidelined MP once again hit back on Saturday, saying, “ghayal hoon isiliye ghatak hoon,” quoting a popular dialogue from the…
US President Donald Trump’s forceful claim that the United States had “beaten and completely decimated Iran” is now facing a harsh test, after a US warplane was lost, undercutting his confident public messaging on the conflict.In his first live address to Americans on the war on Wednesday, Trump declared, “We’ve beaten and completely decimated Iran.”…
NEW DLEHI: Amid the ongoing conflict, Iran’s ambassador to India, Dr Mohammad Fathali, spoke to TOI on war narratives, the situation at the Strait of Hormuz, and clarified Iran’s maritime approach during wartime. He emphasised that the conflict is an “illegal war” imposed on Iran. Reflecting on his diplomatic tenure, he highlighted public solidarity and…
JAKARTA: Indonesia received the bodies of three peacekeeprs Saturday that were killed on deployment in Lebanon as it branded an explosion that injured three other of its blue helmets as “unacceptable”.The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) said three peacekeepers were wounded in a blast that occurred inside a UN facility near El Adeisse…
During a recent Newsmax appearance, Rep. Tim Burchett said classified UFO secrets could keep Americans ‘up at night’ and ‘the country unglued’/ Image: Youtube NewsMax A sitting member of Congress has claimed that classified briefings on unidentified aerial phenomena contain information so unsettling that, if released, it would fundamentally shake public confidence. The remarks, made…