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Washington: The United States has suspended 26 passenger flights operated by Chinese carriers after Beijing’s aviation agency took similar action to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, the US Department of Transportation (USDOT) said on Thursday. Announcing the decision, the USDOT cited the cancellation of 26 flights of American Airlines, Delta Air Lines and United Airlines […]

Madrid: People in Spain will have to explicitly voice their consent to sexual acts in the future to ensure that they are not criminal, under a legislation passed by Parliament. The conservative People’s Party (PP) and right-wing populist Vox party voted against the so-called “Yes Means Yes” law, arguing that it goes against the spirit of […]

Berlin: The German government is eyeing a Unesco heritage status for the pretzel, a traditional type of baked bread that is commonly shaped into a knot. Agriculture Minister Cem Ozdemir is getting behind an application by the baker’s guild of Baden-Wurttemberg for pretzel-baking to be recognised by Unesco for intangible cultural heritage status, dpa news […]

Washington: Four Indian-American women have been racially abused and smacked by a Mexican-American woman in the US state of Texas who hurled racist slurs at them that they are “ruining” America and should “go back to India”. This is so scary. She actually had a gun and wanted to shoot because these Indian American women […]

Buenos Aires: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has called on Argentine President Alberto Fernandez and discussed measures for making trade ties more sustainable and ambitious as well as the potential for bilateral cooperation in defence and nuclear energy. Jaishankar, who arrived here on Thursday the final leg of his maiden official visit to three Latin […]

Trains across the world are operated using diesel, coal, electricity, and magnetic levitation as a source of power. But Germany unveiled a new hydrogen-powered train named Coradia iLint. French multinational Alstom supplied the trains to the Lower Saxony Transport Authority (LNVG ) in Germany. These trains produce zero-emission as they emit only steam and condensed water. The hydrogen […]

Los Angeles: Kobe Bryant’s widow was awarded USD 16 million as part of a USD 31 million jury verdict Wednesday against Los Angeles County for deputies and firefighters sharing grisly photos of the NBA star, his 13-year-old daughter and other victims killed in a 2020 helicopter crash. The nine jurors unanimously agreed with Vanessa Bryant […]

Sofia: Mack Rutherford, 17, landed here after he broke the current world record for the youngest pilot to fly solo around the world.   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by MackSolo (@macksolo2022) His achievement was duly recognised by the Guinness World Records, which handed him two certificates immediately after landing: for the […]

Hyderabad: Hyderabad headquartered vaccine developer Bharat Biotech International Limited (BBIL) announced that its rotavirus oral vaccine Rotavac has been introduced by Nigeria to immunise its children from the life-threatening diarrhoeal disease. Nigeria currently accounts for 14% of all childhood rotavirus deaths globally, making it the country with the second-highest number of rotavirus deaths in the […]

The Russian offensive has largely bogged down as Ukrainian forces increasingly target key facilities far behind the front lines, including in Russia-occupied Crimea.

San Francisco: Snap, the parent company of photo-sharing platform Snapchat, has reached a $35 million settlement with the state of Illinois in the US in a class-action lawsuit over illegal user data collection. The lawsuit alleged that Snapchat’s filters and lenses violated the state’s Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA). The company stored “biometric data without […]

Islamabad: A minor girl was kidnapped, raped, and burnt to death in Islamabad’s Kohsar town. Her body was recovered from a water tank from one of the houses in the town, at Old Kirpa Road falling under the jurisdiction of Kirpa Police Station, The News reported. The father of the victim, hailing from Mardan, lodged […]

New York: A 29-year-old Indian-American female hiker, who got swept away in a flash flood last week at the Zion National Park in the US state of Utah, has been found dead, according to a senior official from the park. Jetal Agnihotri of Tucson, Arizona, went missing on August 19 when flash floods swept multiple […]

Colombians celebrated ‘World Laziness Day,’ a celebration of idleness held every year in the north-western city of Itagüí. Scenes of people laughing, singing, playing music, and simply lying on the bed, have surfaced online. In the video posted by AFP News, people were seen marching on the streets along with their beds. Some were seen […]

Hyderabad: A few thousand years ago, humans were trying to make wheels and spark a fire from stones without any knowledge about what lies beyond a few miles. Today, forget about miles, we are aware of what lies beyond this planet. Recent declarations by NASA suggest that they have picked up sound waves from space. […]

London: Britain’s prime ministerial candidate Rishi Sunak said he wants to change the UK-India relationship to make it a more two-way exchange that opens up easy access to UK students and companies in India. During a campaign hustings event hosted by the Conservative Friends of India (CFIN) diaspora organisation in north London on Monday evening, […]

United Nations: In an apparent jibe at China, India has cautioned against any “double standards” on the issue of combating terrorism and emphasised that any “coercive or unilateral” action that seeks to change the status quo by force is an affront to the principle of common security. India’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Ruchira Kamboj, […]

Jeddah: In one of the rare cases, an NRI worker’s body was exhumed from a graveyard in Saudi Arabia where it was buried mistakenly two months ago. The Indian officials are working to repatriate it back home to India for last rites according to Hindu family tradition. The 42-year-old Andithamy Palanisamy, a native of Madurai […]

Hyderabad: Pakistani police rangers rescued Ashok Kumar, a Hindu sanitary worker in Pakistan after he was allegedly attacked by a crowd over false allegations of blasphemy. In a video that surfaced online, the police force was seen protecting the Hindu man from an angry mob baying for his blood. The police resorted to lathi-charge to […]

New York: Russian President Vladimir Putin is fighting cancer and receiving aggressive treatment as he periodically stops making public appearances and has also possibly survived an assassination attempt, US intelligence experts have opined. But the Kremlin has stoutly denied such reports. The US intelligence community believes that Putin is suffering and he’s being treated for […]

Canberra: Australia’s flag carrier Qantas has issued a formal apology and refunds to millions of customers as it seeks to regain public confidence following months of delays and operational blunders. “On behalf of the national carrier, I want to apologise and assure you that we’re working hard to get back to our best,” Qantas CEO […]

Mumbai: The Miss Universe beauty pageant is expanding eligibility for its competition by allowing mothers and married women to enter, clearly a historic decision! According to Fox News, Marital status and parental status will no longer be criteria for eligibility for pageant contestants starting in 2023. The Miss Universe pageant’s regulations have always required that […]

New York: As part of Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav celebrations in the US state of New York, the Federation of Indian Associations (FIA) set two Guinness World Records respectively for the most number of different flags flown simultaneously and the largest ensemble of musical instruments Damru. People of the Indian diaspora attempted the records to […]

New York: Billed as the world’s biggest Indian event outside the nation, the annual India Day Parade was held in New York City celebrating India’s 75th anniversary of Independence. Allu arjun 💓🇮🇳🙏#AlluArjun𓃵 #NewYork @imsarathchandra pic.twitter.com/rLhTvLoUOw — Allu Nithish AADhf 💥🔥 (@Nithishreddy_AA) August 22, 2022 Telugu megastar Allu Arjun was the grand marshal at the parade […]