New Zealand announces new visa rules which will come into effect from June 1. New Zealand has announced new visa rules making it difficult for non-English speakers to get work visa in the country, even for low-level jobs. The new rules will be implemented from June 1. English language requirements under the Accredited Employer Work…
NEW DELHI: Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) captain Rajat Patidar said opener Phil Salt is fit ahead of their IPL 2026 Qualifier 1 clash against Gujarat Titans in Dharamshala on Tuesday, but added that the team management is yet to decide whether he will be part of the playing XI.Salt had missed the latter part of…
NEW DELHI: Kolkata Police on Monday visited ‘Shantiniketan’, the official residence of Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee, with officials later calling the move as part of a “routine official exercise.”A team of police personnel reached the south Kolkata residence located at 188A Harish Mukherjee Road in the afternoon. While some officers were in uniform, others…
A newborn baby who had been missing since Friday was found dead in a wooded area near Halifax, Canada on Sunday.Police charged two relatives of the infant’s mother with concealing the child’s body and obstructing investigators.Halifax Regional Police said the infant’s remains were discovered at about 3:20 pm in woods off Old Coach Road in…
Saudi Arabia is leveraging the Iran war to accelerate its ambitions of becoming a regional energy and logistics hub, even as the conflict disrupts global trade and weighs on economic growth across the Gulf.Since fighting began on February 28, shipping through the Strait of Hormuz has been heavily restricted, forcing Gulf states to rely on…
NEW DELHI: Madhya Pradesh athletes Dev Kumar Meena and Kuldeep Kumar both cleared 5.45m to break the national pole vault record during the National Senior Athletics Federation Competition in Ranchi on Sunday, but Dev won the gold medal on countback after a close contest on the third and penultimate day of the event.Hours after becoming…
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Sitharaman warned the US-Iran conflict is pressuring India’s fuel prices, fertiliser subsidies and forex reserves. West Bengal opened its first holding centre for suspected illegal Bangladeshi nationals under the BJP’s deportation policy. Congress may decide on Karnataka’s leadership issue within days amid fresh buzz around Siddaramaiah and DK Shivakumar. Iran demanded the release of $12…
Ex-SNP chief Peter Murrell Peter Murrell, the former chief executive of the Scottish National Party (SNP), has pleaded guilty to embezzling more than £400,000 from the party over a 12-year period, in one of Scotland’s biggest political finance scandals in recent years.Murrell appeared before the High Court in Edinburgh on Monday, where prosecutors said he…
US President Donald Trump called on several Muslim-majority countries including Pakistan to sign the Abraham Accords as part of what he described as a historic reshaping of the Middle East.In a post on Truth Social, Trump said discussions with leaders from Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Pakistan, Türkiye, Egypt, Jordan and Bahrain had convinced him…