The White House hailed a new trade agreement with India, saying Prime Minister Narendra Modi has committed to ending purchases of Russian oil, buying energy from the United States, and investing $500 billion across key American sectors. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said the agreement announced by President Donald Trump a day earlier would...
Updated: Feb 4th, 2026 A magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck Myanmar on Tuesday night, with tremors felt across parts of eastern India and Bangladesh, including Kolkata and Dhaka. Seismic monitoring agencies reported that the quake occurred at around 9.04 pm, with the epicentre located approximately 30 kilometres from Sidoktaya in Myanmar. Data from the European-Mediterranean Seismological...
Updated: Feb 4th, 2026 Thousands of people rallied in the Venezuelan capital of Caracas to demand the release of the country’s President Nicolas Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores, one month after they were seized by force during a US military operation in Venezuela. Miranda state Governor Elio Serrano said that the mobilisation showed people’s...
Updated: Feb 3rd, 2026 Representative Image Russia has resumed large-scale attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, leaving thousands of residents without heating and electricity during some of the coldest days of winter, Ukrainian officials were reported to have said on Tuesday. The strikes come after a brief pause in attacks on energy facilities and just ahead...
Updated: Feb 3rd, 2026 Marius Borg Hoiby, the 29-year-old son of Norway’s Crown Princess Mette-Marit, has begun a high-profile criminal trial in Oslo, facing a sweeping set of accusations that have rocked the Norwegian monarchy. Hoiby, who is not a titled member of the royal family and holds no official duties, has been charged with...
Updated: Feb 3rd, 2026 Former US president Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have agreed to testify in a congressional investigation linked to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who died in jail in 2019, as per reports. The decision came days before US lawmakers were set to vote on whether to hold...
Updated: Feb 2nd, 2026 Image: NASA NASA’s Perseverance rover made history by completing its first drives on Mars planned entirely by artificial intelligence, as reported by the space agency on January 30. The two test drives, on December 8 and 10, 2025, show how AI can help rovers explore other planets more efficiently. Instead of...
Updated: Feb 2nd, 2026 Veeraswamy, UK’s oldest surviving Indian restaurant, is facing an uncertain future as a lease dispute threatens to shut down the iconic establishment just months before it completes a century of operations, as per reports. Founded in 1926 and located on Regent Street in central London, the restaurant has become the centre...
A Bangladesh court on Monday sentenced former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to 10 years’ imprisonment in connection with a corruption case linked to the Purbachal plot scam, while her niece and British Member of Parliament, Tulip Siddiq was given a four-year jail term, according to local media reports. According to the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), public...
The Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) released a video of a woman ‘fidayeen’ (suicide bomber) on Monday. In the video, involved in a large-scale assault across Pakistan’s Balochistan province over the weekend, in the phase two of the ‘Operation Herof Phase II’ at the Gwadar Front in Pakistan. During the operation, more than 33 people were...