Dubai/Washington - President Donald Trump's swift rejection of Iran's response to a U.S. peace proposal sent oil prices surging on Monday amid concerns the 10-week-old conflict will drag on, keeping shipping through the Strait of Hormuz paralysed.
Days after the U.S. floated an offer in the...
New Delhi: Lieutenant General NS Raja Subramani (Retd), who is known within the military circles for being both a soldier-scholar and an operational man, has been appointed the new Chief of Defence Staff and...
A fragile Iran–Israel ceasefire is under severe strain after the United Arab Emirates reported fresh Iranian‑linked drone and missile attacks on its territory in early May 2026. The strikes, which targeted the UAE’s...
New Delhi: India’s Sports Minister Mansukh Mandaviya announced this week that Formula 1 is poised to return to the country by 2027, though league officials were quick to dismiss the timeline as overly optimistic.
Mandaviya told...
India has relaxed its foreign investment rules for overseas companies that have up to 10% Chinese shareholding, making it easier for such firms to invest in the country. The change is aimed at...
India's Goods and Services Tax (GST) system delivered its strongest-ever performance in April 2026, collecting a staggering ₹2.43 lakh crore in gross revenue. This marked an 8.7% year-on-year (YoY) increase from ₹2.23 lakh...
Amid the West Asia conflict and its wider global repercussions, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday appealed to the citizens to help the country navigate the crisis, urging them to revive Covid-era measures such as work from home, reduce consumption of petroleum products and cut dependence on foreign currency.
Addressing a rally in Telangana, PM Modi called on the people of India to use public transport and electric vehicles for travelling, avoid non-essential foreign travel and purchase of gold for a year.
These measures, according to the Prime Minister, will reduce consumption of petroleum products like petrol, diesel and gas and reduce dependency on foreign currency.
“Use metros wherever metros are available....
Tamil Nadu politics has always revolved around two names: DMK and the AIADMK. But when the election results came in on May 4, 2026, the entire nation was stunned. A film star, once...
Dubai/Washington - President Donald Trump's swift rejection of Iran's response to a U.S. peace proposal sent oil prices surging on Monday amid concerns the 10-week-old conflict will drag on, keeping shipping through the Strait...
On the outer wall of the Airavatesvara Temple in Tamil Nadu, a 12th-century stone carving shows a woman giving birth while standing upright, supported...
On April 7, Anthropic, the AI company behind the coding and productivity-focused Large Language Model (LLM) family Claude, announced Mythos. This is its most...
Sudan's devastating civil war has reached its fourth year, prompting a dire warning from the United Nations' top aid official. Denise Brown, UN Humanitarian...
In 2024 alone, the UN verified around 4,500 cases of conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV), though the real number is likely much higher. An overwhelming...
Gaza: On 4th January 2025, Israel has ordered the evacuation of two major hospitals in northern Gaza, the Indonesian Hospital and Al-Awda Hospital, as...