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Flight AI101’s Mayday Call Ends in Tragedy Near Meghani Nagar; DGCA and Boeing Launch Joint Investigation

The visit is part of a three-nation European tour to reaffirm India’s global partnerships and its zero-tolerance stance on terrorism

The findings come as UNHRC released its Global Trends Report, which said the number of people driven abroad or displaced in their home countries by war, violence and persecution as of April rose to 122.1 million, up from 120 million a year earlier

With a parity score of just 64.1 per cent, India is among the lowest-ranked countries in South Asia, according to the report released on Thursday. India ranked 129 last year

The Palestinian death toll in Gaza has exceeded 55,000, with over 127,000 injured, amid ongoing Israeli military operations in the 20-month-long Israel-Hamas war

Pranav Patel, 33, of New Jersey, served as a "money mule” in the fraud scheme between October and December 2023 and laundered USD 1.7 million as part of it

The program, which Trump promotes as a fast-track immigration option, aims to attract high-net-worth individuals seeking to live and eventually become citizens of the United States

The arrested and detained include 330 undocumented migrants and 157 people arrested for assault and obstruction

Protests, National Guard deployment, and escalating tensions have spread to cities like New York, Chicago, Dallas, and Austin

Concurrently, US State Department preparing to order departure of all nonessential personnel from US Embassy in Baghdad due to potential for regional unrest, say officials

Convicted on one charge in his New York sex crimes retrial, acquitted on another, while the jury remains undecided on a third. The split verdict follows the overturning of his 2020 conviction in a landmark #MeToo case

Since AI lacks intuition and common sense, it can benefit greatly from philosophical insights that delve into meaning, reasoning, and lived experience

It’s not clear how many employees are affected, but voluntary exit offers were made to staff in Google’s search, advertising, research and engineering units, according to The Wall Street Journal

Despite being a celebrated author, Frederick Forsyth, who died at 86, always considered himself a journalist first and often joked that he turned to fiction only when he found himself broke and jobless

Rights groups report alleges the Chinese government runs coercive labour practices targeting predominantly Muslim Uyghurs and other Turkic minorities

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet forms a high-level documenting committee to build a case for the ICJ, while Thai leadership favors resolving the issue through direct dialogue

Muhammad Shahzeb Khan, a 20-year-old Pakistani citizen living in Canada, has been extradited to the US to face terrorism charges for plotting an ISIS-inspired mass shooting at a Jewish centre in New York City

Following the 2024 ousting of Bashar al-Assad, countries are renewing ties with Syria. The IMF is planning reforms and capacity-building, but reconstruction could cost up to $400 billion

Israeli researchers found that a Covid protein can cause the immune system to attack healthy cells, possibly explaining severe and long Covid symptoms. The study also identified enoxaparin as a potential blocker. Meanwhile, a new Omicron subvariant is spreading globally.

The Senegalese-Italian influencer was detained on Friday for allegedly overstaying his visa at Harry Reid International Airport but was allowed to leave the country without a deportation order

Nuclear threats cannot pay off. This is a mutual concern. We see different actors in the world using it, says EAM Jaishankar

With Trump 2.0 mostly embroiled in the Russia-Ukraine and the volatile wars in West Asia, watchers of Indo-Pacific affairs are questioning Washington’s priorities in the region

Though India is endowed with the fifth largest reserves of Rare Earth Elements, its output remains minimal, making a strong case for liberalising mining restrictions and attracting private investments to reduce imports

President Donald Trump's media company just announced a plan to raise USD 2.5 billion to buy bitcoin, joining a growing number of so-called “bitcoin treasury companies” as the world's most popular cryptocurrency hits all-time highs