Iran or US, who controls the Strait of Hormuz? The conflict between Iran and the United States entered its 135th day on Monday, with both sides continuing to contest control of the strategically vital Strait of Hormuz despite an interim agreement aimed at paving the way for a permanent ceasefire. The latest escalation follows a…
The accident occurred on Saturday when a speedboat carrying 32 Indian tourists and four local crew members capsized near Hon May Rut Ngoai, off Phu Quoc Island (Image credit: AP) NEW DELHI: The mortal remains of the 15 Indian tourists who died in a speedboat accident off Vietnam’s Phu Quoc Island were flown to India…
Volkswagen’s CEO, Oliver Blume, is reportedly planning drastic measures to boost competitiveness, including potentially cutting up to 100,000 jobs and closing four German factories. Volkswagen has finally said the number out loud. In an internal memo to staff, CEO Oliver Blume flagged roughly 50,000 additional job cuts on top of the 50,000 already agreed across…
Concorde flew so high that it was forced to carry a radiation meter to track dangerous cosmic storms British-French supersonic jet Concorde flew so close to the edge of space that it had to carry a special radiation meter to monitor dangerous cosmic storms. If the cockpit instrument sounded an alarm, the only way pilots…
Hello and welcome to another edition of Offside. Now, there’s a phrase on OSINT Twitter: “monitoring the situation”. It refers to the lives of those individuals who are really into bird-watching, except their birds are usually military planes and other assorted objects of mass destruction.Football fans, too, have been monitoring the situation for the last…
Housing sales and prices in Dubai plunged to Middle East war Dubai’s residential property market slowed down in the first half of 2026 as geopolitical tensions in West Asia weighed on buyer sentiment, with housing sales falling 16 per cent year-on-year, according to real estate consultancy Anarock.Residential transactions totalled AED 225.7 billion during the January-June…
A viral video showed a priest performing rituals inside a moving train coach NEW DELHI: Days after a video of a train coach decorated as a “honeymoon suite” triggered outrage and led to a ticket examiner’s suspension, another clip from Indian Railways has gone viral — this time showing a priest performing religious rituals inside…
Anupam Kher has been in the news because of his latest comments on ‘Ram Janmbhoomi’. Amidst that, an old video of Naseeruddin Shah also went viral where he called Kher a ‘clown’. The actor said in this viral clip, “Someone like Anupam Kher is very vocal. I don’t think he needs to be taken seriously….
Trump said the toll would be used to meet “any and all costs necessary to do the job of providing safety and security to this very volatile section of the World.” (AP Photo) Trump announces toll for Hormuz: US President Donald Trump said on Monday that the US is “reinstating” a blockade on Iran in…
Healthcare crisis in Pakistan: Islamabad faces shortage of 100 life-saving medicines, including cancer drugs, morphine & vaccines (Representative ANI, IANS image) Pakistan is facing a severe shortage of more than 100 essential medicines, including life-saving drugs used to treat cancer, heart disease and other serious illnesses, after delays in approving revised medicine prices disrupted production,…