File photo: Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut NEW DELHI: Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut on Sunday dismissed concerns that the INDIA bloc’s rally at Delhi’s Ramlila Maidan would disrupt business in the national capital, taking a swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union home minister Amit Shah by calling them the country’s…
Photo credit: NASA Earth Observatory/Lauren Dauphin From high above the Weddell Sea, Vega Island appears to be staring back at Earth. NASA’s latest satellite images show a section of the ice-covered Antarctic island shaped like a grinning skull in profile, complete with a rocky eye socket, a dark glacial mouth and a jawbone formed by…
Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein A federal judge in the United States on Saturday dismissed president Donald Trump’s $10 billion defamation lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal for the second time this year. The court ruled that Trump had failed to establish that the newspaper acted with “actual malice” in its reporting on an…
Representative Image (AI-generated) A real-estate business can face financial difficulties, but concealing those problems from investors can turn a struggling company into a fraud case. A California property developer who continued seeking investments while his company was heavily in debt and facing serious cash-flow problems has now been sentenced to federal prison. More than 20…
Representative Image (AI-generated) Losing access to a social media account can mean losing years of work, an established audience and an important source of business. That was the situation faced by a Canadian online publisher whose Facebook pages once attracted around 25 million followers. The company had submitted more than 500,000 advertisements to Meta over…
PM said the next major priority is fully securing India’s borders EKTA NAGAR, KEVADIA: PM Narendra Modi Saturday attacked opposition for abandoning its constitutional duty and instead resorting to politics of ‘obstruction’, driven by “despair and disappointment”. Addressing the Rashtriya Ekta Diwas parade – organised annually on the birth anniversary of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel –…
Water entered INS Kesari while it was berthed at Visakhapatnam’s Naval Dockyard, with the Navy reporting no casualties and dewatering efforts underway NEW DELHI: The Indian Navy on Saturday confirmed an incident of “water ingress” (flooding) on one of its ships while the vessel was berthed at the Naval Dockyard in Visakhapatnam. The incident was…
Nationwide protests in France attracted an estimated 320,000 participants voicing concerns over rising living costs and government policies The French government on Saturday estimated that 320,000 people participated in nationwide protests against rising living costs and government policies, as demonstrations entered their third consecutive weekend.Fresh clashes broke out between police and protesters in Paris, where…
NEW DELHI: The opposition on Saturday unanimously passed a “resolution” to remove Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar over allegations of irregularities in the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls during a “mock Parliament” organised at Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge’s residence.Former Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar presided over the proceedings, with several MPs and activists supporting…
A painting by French Impressionist Camille Pissarro, sold by Sotheby’s for £1.2 million in 2024, has become the centre of a legal battle involving the heirs of a Jewish banker whose art collection was seized by the Nazis during World War II. Seven descendants of Salomon Flavian have approached a Paris court seeking to overturn…
