Workers advertise their skills looking for work outside a hardware store in a Johannesburg suburb (Image: AP) JOHANNESBURG: South Africa’s second biggest political party launched a legal challenge Tuesday against a new labour law aimed at boosting the hiring of Black people and other groups in some industries, arguing it is unconstitutional, discriminatory and dampens […]
Israel bombs Yemen’s Hodeidah Port (Image credits: X @RT_com) Israel on Monday carried out airstrikes on Yemen’s key Hodeidah port and nearby facilities injuring nearly 21 people, according to Houthi health ministry spokesperson Anees al-Asbahi.The attack was launched in retaliation for a missile fired by Iran-aligned Houthi rebels that landed near Ben Gurion International Airport […]
Russia launches nearly 150 drones on Ukraine as Trump questions Putin’s commitment to peace Russia launched a massive wave of drone attacks and airstrikes across Ukraine overnight into Sunday, killing at least four people and wounding several others, Ukrainian officials said.Three people were killed and four injured in airstrikes on Kostyantynivka in the Donetsk region, […]
Deepika Padukone has steadily established herself as a global figure, known not just for her work in film but also for her meaningful initiatives. The Deepika Padukone Closet, she uses her personal sense of style to raise funds and awareness for mental health. Proceeds from the closet go to the Live Love Laugh Foundation, an […]
Elon Musk’s SpaceX launches Bandwagon-3 mission, rocket returns safely (Picture credit: X/@SpaceX) The second sonic boom of the day echoed across Florida’s Space Coast on April 21 as a Falcon 9 booster safely returned to Cape Canaveral after lifting off with the Bandwagon-3 rideshare mission, SpaceX’s third such launch offering small satellite deployment services.The evening […]
A Soyuz spacecraft, adorned to commemorate the 80th anniversary of World War II’s conclusion, departed from Kazakhstan’s Baikonur Cosmodrome on Tuesday, transporting an American and two Russians to the International Space Station.The MS-27 vessel lifted off at 10.47 am local time (0547 GMT), with Russian Roscosmos space agency broadcasting the launch. The spacecraft achieved orbit […]
SpaceX launched the “Fram2 mission” on Tuesday (local time), marking the first human spaceflight over Earth’s polar regions.The privately funded mission will carry four astronauts on a days-long orbital journey. Fram2 is named after the famous 19th-century Norwegian ship used for Arctic and Antarctic expeditions.The mission launched from SpaceX’s facilities aboard a Falcon 9 rocket […]
South Korea has initiated a full-scale nationwide response to combat lethal wildfires in the southeastern region, said the acting president on Wednesday.“This is a full-scale national response,” the acting president Han Duck-soo said announcing the elevation of the national wildfire crisis to its highest level. Multiple fires erupted over the weekend, with casualties increasing to […]
Israel launched airstrikes on multiple locations in Lebanon on Saturday, retaliating against a rocket attack by Lebanon. At least 6 are reported to be dead in the most intense cross-border exchange since its ceasefire with Hezbollah, which began nearly four months ago. The strike on the southern village of Touline killed five people, including a […]
