BEIJING - A year ago, U.S. President Donald Trump predicted that towering trade tariffs would bring America's main economic rival to heel.
He heads to China this week with that ambition blunted by court rulings, narrowing his goals to a few deals on beans, beef and...
Dubai/Washington - President Donald Trump's swift rejection of Iran's response to a U.S. peace proposal sent oil prices surging on Monday amid concerns the 10-week-old conflict will drag on, keeping shipping through the Strait...
New Delhi: Lieutenant General NS Raja Subramani (Retd), who is known within the military circles for being both a soldier-scholar and an operational man, has been appointed the new Chief of Defence Staff and...
New Delhi: India’s Sports Minister Mansukh Mandaviya announced this week that Formula 1 is poised to return to the country by 2027, though league officials were quick to dismiss the timeline as overly optimistic.
Mandaviya told...
India has relaxed its foreign investment rules for overseas companies that have up to 10% Chinese shareholding, making it easier for such firms to invest in the country. The change is aimed at...
India's Goods and Services Tax (GST) system delivered its strongest-ever performance in April 2026, collecting a staggering ₹2.43 lakh crore in gross revenue. This marked an 8.7% year-on-year (YoY) increase from ₹2.23 lakh...
Amid the West Asia conflict and its wider global repercussions, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday appealed to the citizens to help the country navigate the crisis, urging them to revive Covid-era measures such as work from home, reduce consumption of petroleum products and cut dependence on foreign currency.
Addressing a rally in Telangana, PM Modi called on the people of India to use public transport and electric vehicles for travelling, avoid non-essential foreign travel and purchase of gold for a year.
These measures, according to the Prime Minister, will reduce consumption of petroleum products like petrol, diesel and gas and reduce dependency on foreign currency.
“Use metros wherever metros are available....
Tamil Nadu politics has always revolved around two names: DMK and the AIADMK. But when the election results came in on May 4, 2026, the entire nation was stunned. A film star, once...
The World Health Organization (WHO) reports five confirmed hantavirus cases out of eight total infections on the MV Hondius cruise ship, sparking concern during its Atlantic journey. As of May 7, 2026, the...
On the outer wall of the Airavatesvara Temple in Tamil Nadu, a 12th-century stone carving shows a woman giving birth while standing upright, supported...
On April 7, Anthropic, the AI company behind the coding and productivity-focused Large Language Model (LLM) family Claude, announced Mythos. This is its most...
Sudan's devastating civil war has reached its fourth year, prompting a dire warning from the United Nations' top aid official. Denise Brown, UN Humanitarian...
In 2024 alone, the UN verified around 4,500 cases of conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV), though the real number is likely much higher. An overwhelming...
Gaza: On 4th January 2025, Israel has ordered the evacuation of two major hospitals in northern Gaza, the Indonesian Hospital and Al-Awda Hospital, as...