Representative Photo (Photo: AP) JERUSALEM: The Israeli military said Saturday it intercepted a missile launched from Yemen, whose Huthi rebels meanwhile reported several US strikes against their positions.The Iran-backed Huthis, who control large parts of Yemen, have launched missiles and drones targeting Israel and Red Sea shipping throughout the Gaza war, claiming to act in […]
HOUSTON: Tech billionaire Elon Musk‘s dream of gaining city status for his SpaceX spaceport in the southern US state of Texas could become a reality on Saturday, with voters set to green light Starbase as a new municipality.There’s little doubt over the outcome of the ballot that will likely name a senior SpaceX representative as […]
Top-ranking officials in US President Donald Trump‘s administration were quick to criticize Germany’s domestic intelligence agency BfV on Friday for designating the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party as a “right-wing extremist” entity.The agency said the party’s positions on ethnicity were incompatible with democracy, noting that the AfD “aims to exclude certain population groups from […]
The small town of Baruth is just over an hour’s train ride out of Berlin. Some 4,500 people live here and in the 12 surrounding villages that make up the municipality. Forests and a few fields dominate the landscape.Two years ago, energy drinks maker Red Bull and its partner Rauch took over operations from a […]
President Donald Trump (Photo: AP) WASHIBGTON: President Donald Trump spent his first 100 days issuing a blitz of executive orders to deliver rapidly on campaign pledges, drastically downsize the government and reshape America’s role on the global stage.But the job gets trickier now for the self-styled dealmaker-in-chief, who must corral fractious Republicans on Capitol Hill […]
Nirmal Kapoor, the beloved matriarch of the renowned Kapoor family, passed away today, May 2nd, 2025, around 5:45 pm at the Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital in Mumbai. She was in her nineties and had been battling health issues for the past few months, having been in and out of the hospital on several occasions. Nirmal […]
Frederick Forsyth’s Avenger never enjoyed the cult reverence of The Day of the Jackal. But buried in its pages is a sprawling geopolitical thriller that predicted the unthinkable: the convergence of terror networks, state complicity, and cold American pragmatism. It ends on September 10, 2001 — the day before the world changed forever.But to understand […]
At a White House event marking the National Day of Prayer, President Donald Trump stood flanked by religious leaders of every stripe—Christian pastors, Jewish rabbis, Hindu swamis, Buddhist monks, and Muslim imams. But in typical Trump fashion, what began as a carefully choreographed moment of spiritual unity soon veered into campaign trail chaos, as he […]
At the recently held FICCI Frames event in Delhi, veteran lyricist and screenwriter Javed Akhtar addressed the chilling aftermath of the Pahalgam terror attack in Kashmir. Speaking candidly during a panel, Akhtar did not hold back in his criticism of Pakistan’s actions and also called out growing hostility faced by Kashmiris within India in the […]
After the historic success of Stree 2, Shraddha Kapoor is the most sought-after actress of Indian Cinema. She has been flooded with offers from all top banners from the Hindi Film Industry as well as the South Indian Industry, but she has made a brave choice by signing on for a standalone female lead film […]
