The US State Department on Thursday announced the closure of the US Embassy in Kuwait following retaliatory Iranian strikes, as the widening conflict in the Middle East began directly affecting Gulf capitals.Iran has fired waves of missiles and drones at the American-allied Gulf country since the start of the war, escalating tensions across the region….
File photo: BJP’s Amit Malviya NEW DELHI: Blaming India for the US strike on Iranian naval vessel IRIS Dena was both illogical and misleading, the BJP said on Thursday as Congress took a swipe at govt over the attack on the warship that was returning after participating in a naval exercise in India.BJP noted that…
File photo: Jammu & Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah and National Conference chief Farooq Abdullah JAMMU/SRINAGAR: Jammu & Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah and National Conference chief Farooq Abdullah on Thursday said the UT government is in touch with the Centre to evacuate Kashmiri students, mostly medical students, stranded in Iran.Both urged Muslims livid over…
India’s Sanju Samson (PTI Photo/Kunal Patil) NEW DELHI: India sealed a thrilling seven-run win over England in the T20 World Cup semi-final on Thursday at Wankhede Stadium to book a place in the final against New Zealand. It was a high-scoring contest with 499 runs and 34 sixes in total, as both teams entertained the…
The United States will not extend to India the kind of sweeping economic concessions it once granted China, said Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau on Thursday, claiming that those incentives allowed China to emerge as a rival.Speaking at the Raisina Dialogue, India’s flagship conference on geopolitics and geoeconomics, Landau made it clear that while…
IAF Su-30 MKI (File photo) NEW DELHI: A Sukhoi Su-30 MKI fighter aircraft of the Indian Air Force (IAF) has lost radar contact in Assam, officials said on Thursday, adding that an IAF team has been dispatched to determine the circumstances.“An IAF Su-30 MKI is reported overdue. The aircraft had taken off from Jorhat, Assam…
NEW DELHI: West Bengal governor C V Ananda Bose on Thursday resigned from his post ahead of the state assembly elections, PTI reported quoting a Lok Bhavan official.According to the official, Bose submitted his resignation in Delhi. Speaking to PTI, Bose said, “I have spent enough time at Governor’s office.”Bose had been serving as the…
In a surprising turn of events, Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar filed his nomination for the Rajya Sabha on Thursday in Patna. The sudden move has pushed Bihar into a major political shift while ending the tenure of the state’s longest chief minister.Nitish Kumar, who has served as Bihar’s longest-tenured chief minister for more than…
Lab-grown diamonds feel like a modern miracle! Stones that look just like the real thing, but without the astronomical price tag. And the story behind them is surprisingly long. Humans have been fascinated with replicating diamonds for centuries, ever since Antoine Lavoisier identified them as pure carbon in the 18th century. From early experiments in…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is reportedly seeking to reopen talks with the US Department of War after negotiations over access to the company’s AI models broke down last week. The development comes days after Amodei criticised OpenAI’s defence deal and called CEO Sam Altman’s messaging “straight up lies” in an internal memo to employees.A report…