Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday said that “Brics has overtaken the G7” in terms of economic size, while also praising India as a “key partner” for its leading role in the IT and software industry.Speaking at the annual St Petersburg International Economic Forum, Putin said that developing countries are playing an increasingly important role…
NEW DELHI: Another video purportedly showing a damaged stretch of the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway in Rajasthan’s Sawai Madhopur has gone viral, intensifying criticism of NHAI following the recent cave-in on the Delhi-Dehradun Expressway. Officials said the highways authority had terminated the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway contractor’s agreement in April after the builder repeatedly failed to fulfil the contractual…
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said American forces could soon attack Pickaxe Mountain in Iran amid a fresh wave of strikes in the country.In an interview on The Hugh Hewitt Show, Trump said the US is closely monitoring activities at the heavily fortified site, which hosts two deeply buried tunnel complexes. He, however, rejected…
NEW DELHI: TMC leader Koel Mallick on Thursday resigned from the Rajya Sabha amid the ongoing exodus of MPs and MLAs from the Mamata Banerjee-led party, news agency ANI reported, citing sources.“Rajya Sabha MP from TMC, Koel Mallick met Vice President and Rajya Sabha Chairman CP Radhakrishnan and has submitted her resignation,” sources told ANI.The…
“If you want to do something, achieve something, you can’t be thinking all the time of what you don’t have.” – Kapil Dev There are some quotes that sound simple when you first read them. Then you sit with them for a minute, and suddenly they hit differently.This quote from Kapil Dev is one of…
SoftBank Group founder and CEO Masayoshi Son has said that he is not planning to step down in his sixties, announcing to shareholders that he intends to remain at the helm of the technology conglomerate for another decade or more. According to a report by news agency Reuters, the 68-year-old billionaire tech investor declared that…
Virat Kohli (Image credit: BCCI/IPL) Nearly two years after stepping away from T20Is and a year after bidding farewell to Tests, Virat Kohli continues to show that the competitive spirit burns undiminished.After consecutive ducks had briefly raised questions, he responded on Wednesday night in the only way he knows — with a statement innings. And…
Paramakudi (SC) is a reserved constituency in Ramanathapuram district that has seen intense competition between the DMK and AIADMK. In the 2021 Assembly elections, DMK’s S. Murugesan won with 84,864 votes, defeating AIADMK’s N. Sadhan Prabhakar by a margin of 13,285 votes. In the 2016 Assembly elections, AIADMK’s Dr. S. Muthiah won with 79,254 votes,…
Nmplol and Zoil exchanged public remarks after the self-gifting Twitch subscription controversy. (Image via: Instagram@nmplol & YouTube/@ChudToChad) What started with just 20 Twitch subscriptions has now turned into a full-blown streamer drama between Nmplol and Zoil. The whole thing began after Zoil admitted that he anonymously gifted himself 20 subs during a livestream. Soon after,…
NEW DELHI: Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov briefly halted a press conference in New Delhi after a journalist speaking on the phone repeatedly interrupted the briefing, prompting a sharp warning from the senior diplomat.Distracted by the ongoing phone conversation, Lavrov initially asked the journalist to leave the conference room. However, when the call continued, he…