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Vance in Israel says ‘great optimism’ ce...

Vance in Israel says ‘great optimism’ ceasefire will hold

Vance in Israel says ‘great optimism’ ceasefire will hold ## Vance Expresses Cautious Optimism Regarding Gaza Ceasefire **Jerusalem** – United States Vice President JD Vance concluded a visit to Israel this week, expressing a sentiment of “great optimism” regarding the fragile... read more »

US and Belize sign ‘safe third country’ ...

US and Belize sign ‘safe third country’ agreement for asylum seekers

US and Belize sign ‘safe third country’ agreement for asylum seekers ## US Expands Migrant Deportation Strategy with Belize Agreement **Washington D.C.** – The United States government has formalized an agreement with Belize concerning the processing of asylum seekers, marking the latest... read more »

Japan Welcomes First Female Prime Minist...

Japan Welcomes First Female Prime Minister: Sanae Takaichi and Her Trailbla...

Tokyo – In a momentous shift for Japan’s political landscape, Sanae Takaichi has been sworn in as the nation’s first female Prime Minister, shattering a nearly century-old glass ceiling in one of the world’s most male-dominated democracies. At 64, Takaichi brings a blend of conservative... read more »

Nicolas Sarkozy Begins Five-Year Prison ...

Nicolas Sarkozy Begins Five-Year Prison Sentence for Campaign Finance Consp...

Paris –  In a historic and dramatic turn of events, former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has begun serving a five-year prison sentence after being convicted of criminal conspiracy related to illegal campaign financing. The 70-year-old leader, who governed France from 2007 to 2012, becomes... read more »

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9 dead in Russian cargo plane crash

9 dead in Russian cargo plane crash

Moscow – A cargo plane crashed in Russia’s southern Siberia, killing nine people onboard, authorities said Thursday. “The plane en route from Novosibirsk Yeltsovka airport (in... read more »

Bangladesh deploys troops for parliamentary poll

Bangladesh deploys troops for parliamentary poll

Dhaka – Tens of thousands of Bangladeshi troops have been deployed across the country ahead of parliamentary poll slated for Jan 5 next year... read more »

Thailand election body urges delay in polls amid clash

Thailand election body urges delay in polls amid clash

 Thailand’s election commission on Thursday urged the government to delay the upcoming polls as clashes between security forces and anti-government... read more »

Blast targets bus in Cairo, 5 injured.

Blast targets bus in Cairo, 5 injured.

Five people were injured, one in a critical condition, when a bomb was hurled at a public bus in Egypt’s capital, Cairo, two days after 14 were killed in... read more »

China flays Abe’s Yasukuni visit

US disappointed over Shinzo Abe's visit to war shrine

Beijing – China Thursday condemned Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s visit to the Yasukuni shrine, saying the gesture is “a major new... read more »

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Reliance Capital Q3 net profit rises 28% at Rs 213 crore

Financial services major, Reliance Capital today reported 28 per cent rise in its third quarter net profit at Rs 213 crore on robust growth in insurance and mutual fund businesses. The total income... read more »

Flipkart to double value of goods sold as demand r...

Flipkart aims to double the total value of goods it sells to $8 billion this year, two people with knowledge of the plans said, as India’s... read more »

Maruti Suzuki Net Jumps 18% to Rs 802 Crore in Q3

Maruti Suzuki, India’s largest car maker, reported an 18 per cent year-on-year (y-o-y) jump in its net profit to Rs 802 crore for the quarter ending... read more »

Union Bank Of India Q3 profit falls 13%

Union Bank of India, a public sector bank in India, has posted a fall of 13.33% in net profit to Rs 3,024.20 million for the quarter ended December 31, 2014 as... read more »

Swiss gold exports to India cross Rs 1.2 lakh crore

Switzerland’s gold exports to India crossed Rs 1.2 lakh crore in 2014 even as concerns persist over bullion being used to channel illicit funds into the... read more »

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Steyn, Morkel strike as India reaches 271 for 5 at tea

Steyn, Morkel strike as India reaches 271 for 5 at tea

Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel on Friday struck in the extended second session as they dismissed Murali Vijay, Cheteshwar Pujara, Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli before tea. India reached 271 for 5 at the... read more »

Bell rues `bad habit` of repeated failures of England top-order batsmen to `cash in`

Bell rues `bad habit` of repeated failures of Engl...

Sydney – England batsman Ian Bell has said that the repeated failure of England’s top order to cash in on starts has become a... read more »

Warner says has finally understood how he almost wasted...

Warner says has finally understood how he almost wasted valuable Baggy Green opportunity

Melbourne – Australian opener David Warner has admitted that his baggy green Test cap came too easy for him, adding that after two years, he has finally... read more »

J. Kallis to say good bye to Tests after Durban

J. Kallis to say good bye to Tests after Durban

Jacques Kallis, one of the greatest all-rounders of the game, on Wednesday announced his retirement from Test cricket after the Durban Test against India,... read more »

All roads lead to Kingsmead: Action shifts to Durban fo...

All roads lead to Kingsmead: Action shifts to Durban for final Test

There had been some activity here only a little earlier. But then a slight drizzle had sent the small posse of potential ticket-buyers scurrying for cover. By... read more »

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6 million for an ad for Deepika

Dimple girl Deepika Padukone Bollywood box office after the Queen has become the Queen of advertising films . In 2013, Deepika Padukone Race 2 ‘ , ‘ This is crazy youth ‘ , ‘... read more »

Sushant Singh Rajput and Ankita Lokhande will not ...

Mumbai Sushant Singh Rajput and Ankita Lokhande are in the spotlight again over their relationship these days . Reports the serial ‘ holy... read more »

Akshay Kumar and Salman Khan in Fugly’s Honey Sin...

Akshay Kumar’s next venture as a producer, Fugly, has the Khiladi Kumar doing a cameo in a song along with Salman Khan. A fresh still shows Akshay and Sallu... read more »

Rajnikanth felt awkward shooting romantic scenes with D...

Chennai –  Soundarya Rajnikanth, who has directed her father and superstar Rajinikanth in forthcoming Tamil period-drama ‘Kochadaiiyaan’,... read more »

Shaadi Ke Side Effects

Cast: Farhan Akhtar, Vidya Balan, Ram Kapoor, Vir Das,Purab Kohli, Ila Arun, Rati Agnihotri Director : Saket Chaudhary What’s the next step, after... read more »

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Health & Fitness

Drinking 3 cups of coffee a day reduces liver cancer risk by over 50pc

Drinking 3 cups of coffee a day reduces liver cancer risk by over...

Washington – A new study has revealed that coffee consumption can reduce the risk of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), which is the most common type of liver cancer, by about 40 percent. The... read more »

`Vitamin D may not offer protection against cancer, diabetes and dementia`

Daily dose of Vitamin D can help stave off diabete...

London – A daily dose of vitamin D can be used in the battle against Type 2 diabetes, experts have revealed. Researchers are carrying out a... read more »

Maternal smoking linked to poor infant immunity

Maternal smoking linked to poor infant immunity

Washington – A new study has revealed that smoking during pregnancy is associated with both respiratory and non-respiratory infections in infants,... read more »

Binge drinking linked to increased stroke risk in middl...

Binge drinking linked to increased stroke risk in middle-aged men

Washington – A new study has showed that excessive alcohol consumption increases the progression of atherosclerosis and the risk of stroke in middle-aged... read more »

Poor sleep quality may trigger Alzheimer’s disease

Poor sleep quality may trigger Alzheimer’s disease

Washington – A new study has revealed that shorter sleep duration and lower sleep quality are both associated with onset and progression of Alzheimer’s... read more »

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Eat strawberries to lower bad cholesterol

Washington –  A rich source of antioxidant and anti-inflammatory nutrients, strawberries offer a range of health benefits. Adding to the long list is a recent study published in the Journal of... read more »

Why dark chocolate is good for your heart

Washington – Researchers have suggests that consumption of dark chocolate lowers the augmentation index, a key vascular health predictor, and... read more »

Regular exercise can make you smarter

New Delhi –  If you think exercising is all about losing those extra pounds or just a way of being fit, think again! Just 30 minutes of physical... read more »

74 per cent children in Kerala use tobacco, says study

Seventy-four per cent children in Kerala use tobacco, according to a recent multi-state survey conducted by National Drug Dependence Treatment Centre and the... read more »

Indian-American Scientist Develops Diagnostic for Cance...

In a breakthrough, an Indian- American scientist at the prestigious MIT has developed a simple, cheap, paper test that could improve cancer diagnosis rates and... read more »

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You are what you wear: Modi changes clothes four times in a day

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s statecraft gets as much space in print, and on smart devices, as his image-craft. But then, you expect nothing less from the man who one-upped the FLOTUS in fashion... read more »

Successful Mars mission helps ISRO end year on high note

Isro successfully launches Astrosat, six other sat...

SRIHARIKOTA: Isro on Monday successfully launched India’s first astronomy satellite Astrosat, eleven years after the government cleared the... read more »

PM Narendra Modi to Indian Diaspora: ‘India is wa...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi told the Indian diaspora in California that it is time the brain drain became a “brain gain” for India. “India... read more »

Silicon Valley to give PM Narendra Modi ‘rock-sta...

SAN FRANCISCO: For a change, Silicon Valley is buzzing about something besides a sleek new device, mind-bending breakthrough or precocious billionaire. A rare... read more »

Najeeb Jung gets some unexpected support from Arvind Ke...

NEW DELHI: Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday described lieutenant governor Najeeb Jung as “a good man with bad political... read more »

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Politics

Rahul Gandhi’s comments on 1984 riots trigger protests at C...

New Delhi – 300 protesters carrying black flags and shouting slogans waved black flags and climbed on top of barricades outside the Congress party office in Delhi, expressing their anger... read more »

This BJP nominee set to be Rajya Sabha's richest member

This BJP nominee set to be Rajya Sabha’s ric...

Patna –  A multi-millionaire businessman from Bihar is set to be the richest member of the Rajya Sabha. Nominated by the BJP, Ravindra... read more »

NCP differs with Rahul, says ‘respect court order...

Pass Lokpal bill, Rahul appeals to parties

New Delhi – The NCP, a Congress ally, on Wednesday said any judicial pronouncement on Narendra Modi’s alleged involvement in the post-Godhra riots... read more »

Alagiri said brother Stalin would die, reveals father M...

Chennai –  It was, once again, laundry day for the first family of Tamil Nadu politics. DMK chief M Karunanidhi, elaborating on his decision to suspend... read more »

Andhra Pradesh assembly adjourned after row over Telang...

Hyderabad – Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy’s decision to move a resolution in the state assembly seeking a rejection of the... read more »

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Facebook to join Standard & Poor's 500-stock index

Facebook testing `save for later ` reading feature

Washington – Facebook is reportedly testing a feature to let users save shared links on the site for later reading, similar to apps like Instapaper and Pocket. The feature comes in the form of... read more »

Fruit flies may harbour dementia cure

Fruit flies may harbour dementia cure

Washington – Researchers have taken a significant step forward in unraveling the mechanisms of Pavlovian conditioning and understanding this... read more »

Newly discovered HIV strain leads to faster AIDS develo...

Newly discovered HIV strain leads to faster AIDS development

Washington – A new study has suggested that a recently discovered HIV strain leads to significantly faster development of AIDS than currently prevalent... read more »

Mystery behind `68-million-year-old T. Rex soft tissue ...

Mystery behind `68-million-year-old T. Rex soft tissue discovery` solved

Washington – Researchers have explained that the 68-million-year-old soft tissue which was discovered from the bones of a Tyrannosaurus rex did not decay... read more »

Bitcoin price tops $1k for first time ever!

Bitcoin operators shut shops in India amid RBI warning

Washington – The price of bitcoins reportedly topped 1,000 dollars for the first time ever. The experimental digital currency first hit 100 dollars in... read more »

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Djokovic beats Nadal in Chile exhibition match

Djokovic to skip Serbia’s Davis Cup tie against India

India’s chances of success in the Davis Cup World Group play-off tie suddenly brightened considerably when World No.1 Novak Djokovic pulled out of the contest citing fatigue. The Serbian star,... read more »

With nod to Goran Ivanisevic, Marin Cilic clinches...

NEW YORK: Marin Cilic, his first Grand Slam title in hand after a straight-sets pounding of Kei Nishikori in the US Open final on Monday, thanked... read more »

BCCI to name series after Sachin Tendulkar

Emotional Sachin leaves film, TV celebs in tears

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCC) is mulling over the idea of naming a series after cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar.  A discussion was held... read more »

Banned Saeed Ajmal says elbow ‘not usual’, ...

Pakistan off-spinner Saeed Ajmal blamed his illegal action on a “not usual” elbow and vowed to return by next year’s World Cup after he was... read more »

Australia name Aaron Finch new T20 captain

Australia have named swashbuckling batsman Aaron Finch captain of the Twenty20 cricket team, replacing George Bailey, Cricket Australia (CA) said on... read more »

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Indonesia migrant boat death toll rises to 61

Sixty-one bodies have been recovered from an overloaded wooden boat which sank off Malaysia carrying dozens of Indonesian illegal immigrants, maritime officials said on Monday. The dead were mostly... read more »

Over 13,000 Palestinian homes to be demolished by ...

The United Nations says some 13,000 Palestinian structures in the occupied West Bank are currently under Israeli demolition orders. In a Monday... read more »

Pakistan’s first indigenous drone kills 3 militan...

PESHAWAR: Pakistan for the first time on Monday used an indigenous drone to attack a terrorist compound in restive North Waziristan, killing at least three... read more »

10 dead after South Korea boat capsizes, search on

South Korean coastguard and navy vessels, backed by rescue aircraft, were still searching on Monday for eight people missing after a fishing charter boat... read more »

Migrant crisis: Germany to release funds to help region...

Germany’s coalition government has agreed to spend 6bn euros (£4.4m) to support record numbers of migrants and other measures to deal with the... read more »

Sensex Surges Nearly 700 Points as RBI Holds Rates Steady: What’s Fueling the Rally?

The Indian stock market roared to life today, with the BSE Sensex jumping nearly 700 points and the Nifty 50 climbing close to 1%, following the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) decision to... read more »

Donald Trump's Day-One Executive Orders: Implications for Birthright Citizenship, Paris Climate Agreement, and Death Penalty

Donald Trump’s Day-One Executive Orders: Implications for Birthright Citizenship, Pa...

On January 20, 2025, President Donald Trump commenced his second term by signing a series of executive orders targeting key policy areas, including immigration, environmental commitments,... read more »

Elon Musk’s Gesture at Trump Rally Sparks Controversy

During a rally celebrating President Donald Trump’s inauguration on January 20, 2025, at Washington D.C.’s Capital One Arena, tech billionaire Elon Musk made a gesture that has... read more »

Israel and Hamas Reach Gaza Ceasefire Agreement

In a significant development, Israel and Hamas have agreed to a ceasefire aimed at ending the 15-month-long conflict in Gaza. The agreement, brokered by Egyptian and Qatari mediators with... read more »

Former Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh Passes Away at 92

Dr. Manmohan Singh, India’s 14th Prime Minister and a visionary economist, passed away on December 26, 2024, at the age of 92. Widely regarded as the architect of India’s economic... read more »