Wellington: Auckland has become the first major city to welcome 2025, with thousands of revellers counting down to the new year and cheering at colourful fireworks launched from New Zealand's tallest structure, Sky Tower, and a spectacular downtown light show. Thousands also thronged to downtown...
Washington: Chinese hackers remotely accessed several US Treasury Department workstations and unclassified documents after compromising a third-party software service provider, the agency said on Monday. The department did not provide details on how many workstations had been accessed or what sort of documents the hackers...
Washington: After vowing to ‘go to war’ to defend the H-1B visa programme, tech billionaire Elon Musk has reignited debates surrounding the programme used to bring skilled foreign workers to the US by labelling it ‘broken’ and in urgent need of ‘major reform.’ Musk, along...
Washington: A US federal appeals court has upheld a jury's decision ordering President-elect Donald Trump to pay $5 million for sexually abusing and defaming writer E Jean Carroll. The verdict, reached after a nine-day civil trial in New York last year, found Trump guilty of...
New Delhi: India and other Quad member nations Tuesday renewed their firm commitment to work towards a free and open Indo-Pacific that is peaceful, stable and prosperous. The foreign ministers of the member nations of the grouping made the pledge in a joint statement commemorating...
Seoul: A South Korean court issued warrants Tuesday to detain impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol and search his office and residence over his short-lived declaration of martial law. The country's anti-corruption agency said it is investigating whether his declaration amounted to rebellion. But experts still...
United Nations: Pakistan joins the UN Security Council Wednesday subtly changing the balance in the world organisation's highest decision-making body and getting a virtual veto power over sanctioning terrorists it harbours. Elected in June as a non-permanent member, it will replace Japan for a two-year...
New Delhi: India Tuesday announced that it is providing ‘all possible help’ to Kerala nurse Nimisha Priya, who has been sentenced to death in Yemen for the murder of a Yemeni national. In a statement, Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said, "We...
Berlin: The German government Monday sought to downplay efforts by tech entrepreneur Elon Musk to get involved in the country's general election campaign by again endorsing the far-right Alternative for Germany, or AfD, party. Musk caused uproar over the weekend after backing the AfD in...
Lahore: Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif's decision of not offering condolences on the passing of former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was severely criticised on social media. Singh, who was born in Gah village in Chakwal district of Pakistan's Punjab and served as Prime Minister...
By Aakar Patel Attacks on Bengali Christians and their churches have begun following the BJP's victory in the state. Last...
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By Dilip Cherian The Centre appears keen to give young IPS officers early exposure to the workings and priorities of...
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The demonstration by scores of policemen and officers outside the Delhi Police headquarters on 2 November to protest against some...
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More than three years after ethnic violence erupted in Manipur, there is no let-up in the spiral of killings, displacement,...
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