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Washington: US President Donald Trump will meet the leaders of the Quad countries in Manila during his upcoming visit to the Philippines, the White House said, placing the Indo-Pacific partnership on an itinerary that will also take him to China. The meeting will bring the...

New Delhi: Visa matters are "sovereign functions" of any government, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said Friday, responding to reports that multiple foreign speakers, including Norwegian journalist Helle Lyng, had their visas revoked or denied ahead of the Bharat Summit in Hyderabad. Lyng, who...

Kataka: Justice Bibhu Prasad Routray has been appointed Acting Chief Justice of the Orissa High Court following the retirement of Chief Justice Harish Tandon. Justice Routray is the senior-most judge of the Orissa High Court and will assume charge November 16. The Union Ministry of...

New Delhi: US-based technology giant Microsoft Friday admitted that its fixes are not "working as expected" as a mega outage hit millions of users across Microsoft 365 services globally. In a statement on X, the company said it had monitored the status of the changes...

New Delhi: Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has asserted that the risk of being arrested, imprisoned or killed would not deter her from returning to Dhaka, saying she would rather die in her homeland than remain away from her people. In a rare audio...

Hong Kong: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang resigned Thursday after his extramarital affair raised national security concerns. The company named Colette Kress as interim CEO. She is the current executive vice president and chief financial officer. Huang faced growing calls to resign after his affair with...

New York: Engulfed by scandals, Jensen Huang, the CEO of Nvidia, whose chips are a driving force in the AI revolution, is facing ouster by the company's board, a development with far-reaching consequences for the US economy and its technological leadership. The board was meeting...

Kolkata: A hijack threat note found in the washroom of a Mumbai-bound Air India flight before take-off Wednesday morning prompted security officials to park the aircraft in an isolation bay of the airport here, an official said. The flight was scheduled to depart at 10.20...

New Delhi: Union Minister of Ports, Shipping and Waterways Sarbananda Sonowal Wednesday said that a Liberia-flagged very large crude carrier (VLCC) MT FUJAIRAH ENERGY was struck by a projectile while transiting the Persian Gulf, leaving four crew members injured, including one Indian national. In a...

Guwahati: Several passengers were injured after at least six coaches of the Kolkata–Sairang Express derailed near Digaru railway station on the outskirts of Guwahati early Wednesday, officials said. The incident occurred at around 6.54 a.m. when the train, travelling from Sairang in Mizoram towards Kolkata,...