Xi Jinping and Shehbaz Sharif NEW DELHI: China has for the first time publicly acknowledged providing on-ground technical assistance to Pakistan during India’s Operation Sindoor last year.Beijing’s South China Morning Post on Friday reported that state broadcaster CCTV aired interviews with engineers from the Aviation Industry Corporation of China’s (AVIC) Chengdu Aircraft Design and Research…
File photo: US President Donald Trump TOI correspondent from Washington: For almost a decade during the Trump era, one of the enduring mysteries of American politics has been whether Republican lawmakers still possessed a functioning spine.Some rare sightings have been reported this week on Capitol Hill, where in a series of small but unmistakable acts…
Sunrisers Hyderabad’s Sakib Hussain and teammates celebrate (ANI Photo) NEW DELHI: Sakib Hussain had to wait a long time for his IPL moment. And when it arrived, he grabbed it with both hands. After being part of Kolkata Knight Riders in 2024 without getting a game and going unsold in the 2025 auction, the 21-year-old…
US President Donald Trump on Sunday lashed out at NBC’s Meet the Press moderator Kristen Welker before abruptly ending a television interview, accusing her and major American news networks of being ‘crooked’ while defending his claims that US elections are rigged.The confrontation escalated when Welker pressed Trump to provide evidence for his repeated allegations of…
In the summer of 2022, Sri Lanka became a symbol of economic collapse.Fuel stations ran dry. Long queues stretched for kilometres. Power cuts lasted for hours. Inflation surged, foreign exchange reserves evaporated and the country defaulted on its external debt for the first time in its history.The crisis triggered political upheaval, culminating in the resignation…
Iran has said that the country will treat all of Elon Musk’s business holdings in the Middle East, including SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet service and social media platform X, as legitimate military targets, a report has said. According to the state media outlet Fars (via CNBC), Tehran is expanding its military target list to include…
MUMBAI: Net outflow by foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) from the stock market for the current year crossed the Rs 2-lakh-crore mark for the first time ever. This also showed up in aggregate foreign holding in Indian stocks falling to a 14-year low at 14.7%, a level much below the comparative data for domestic institutions, which…
GUWAHATI: Himanta Biswa Sarma was unanimously re-elected as the BJP legislature party leader for a second consecutive term during a meeting held in Guwahati on Sunday.The BJP legislature party meeting took place in the presence of central observers JP Nadda and Nayab Singh Saini.The oath-taking ceremony will be held on Tuesday and will be attended…
The Pakistan-Australia ODI series comes down to one final showdown at the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore, with both teams entering the third match level at 1-1. After exchanging wins in the first two games, neither side has managed to establish complete dominance, setting up an exciting contest. Australia won the toss and elected to bat…
Few political thinkers have left behind a quote as unsettling as this one. At first glance, it appears simple. On closer inspection, it challenges one of the most common assumptions about evil: That terrible acts are mainly committed by obviously wicked people.For Hannah Arendt, one of the twentieth century’s most influential political theorists, the greater…