On Monday, India defended its energy trade with Russia following accusations from U.S. President Donald Trump, who claimed that New Delhi was benefiting from discounted Russian oil and threatened to impose higher tariffs. The Ministry of External Affairs issued a strong statement asserting that India’s imports are essential for providing affordable energy to its citizens,...
Brazil former president Jair Bolsonaro Brazil’s Supreme Court placed former president Jair Bolsonaro under house arrest as he stands trial for allegedly orchestrating a failed attempt to cling to power after losing the 2022 presidential election, on Monday. The high-profile case unfolds as tensions rise between Brazil and the United States, which is currently imposing...
Updated: Aug 5th, 2025 Two people were killed and six others wounded in a mass shooting in downtown Los Angeles, the US state of California, local authorities said. The incident occurred around 1 am (0800 GMT) on Monday, near 14th Place and Griffith Avenue, where several parties were underway, according to the Los Angeles Police...
Updated: Aug 4th, 2025 US accuses India of financing Russia’s war In a sharp escalation of rhetoric, a senior aide in US President Donald Trump’s administration has accused India of imposing ‘massive’ tariffs on American goods and ‘cheating’ the US immigration system, in addition to purchasing the Russian oil that’s ‘financing’ Russia’s war in Ukraine....
Updated: Aug 4th, 2025 Trump’s golf club A civilian aircraft was intercepted in a restricted airspace over Trump’s golf club on Sunday. A statement of North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) read, “Fighter aircraft intercepted a second general aviation aircraft that violated Temporary Flight Restriction (TFR) airspace over Bedminster, New Jersey, at approximately 12.50 pm...
Significantly advancing India’s future human space exploration, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has launched the country’s first analogue mission in Ladakh. The analogue station — the Human Outer Planet Exploration (HOPE) station — formally inaugurated by Dr V Narayanan, Chairman, ISRO, has isolated aerospace engineer Rahul Mogalapalli and astrobiologist Yaman Akot. “This analogue mission...
Updated: Aug 3rd, 2025 A powerful earthquake of magnitude 6.7 struck Russia’s Kuril Islands on Sunday, according to the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ). The agency initially estimated the quake at 6.35 magnitude with a shallow depth of 10 kilometres (6.2 miles), but later revised its findings. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center measured the...
Source: IANS WhatsApp banned more than 98 lakh accounts in India during June, as part of its efforts to curb abuse and harmful activity on the platform, according to WhatsApp’s latest India Monthly Report. Of these, nearly 19.79 lakh accounts were banned proactively, before any user complaints were received, the report stated. In addition...
Updated: Aug 1st, 2025 Crews writes her name, with ‘telepathy’, image: X (@NeuraNova9) Audrey Crews, the first female patient to have received Elon Musk’s Neuralink brain chip, announced that after 20 years of paralysis, she was able to write her name. Unable to move her limbs for the last 20 years, Crews was able to...
Updated: Jul 31st, 2025 In a remarkable scientific discovery, researchers from James Cook University (JCU) identified a new species of giant stick insect — Acrophylla alta — believed to be Australia’s heaviest insect, weighing around 44 grams. The identification was led by Professor Angus Emmott of JCU, who said that there are longer stick insects...