WASHINGTON: US Vice President Kamala Harris has said she was honoured to have President Joe Biden’s endorsement as the nominee of the Democratic party for the presidential election and asserted that her aim was to unite the nation in “defeating Donald Trump and his extreme Project 2025 agenda”. Her remarks came after Biden (81), […]
WASHINGTON: In a stunning decision, embattled US President Joe Biden on Sunday announced that he was withdrawing from the race to be the next president in 2024 and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic Party’s new nominee. Biden’s decision to nominate Harris, who is of both Indian and African origin, follows weeks […]
PUNE: NCP (SP) president Sharad Pawar on Saturday asserted that the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) will work unitedly for the upcoming assembly elections and provide an alternative to the people of Maharashtra. Talking to reporters here, Pawar said there was no one-upmanship in the alliance, comprising the Shiv Sena (UBT), NCP (SP) and Congress. […]
NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has arrested Haryana Congress MLA Surender Panwar in an “illegal” mining-linked money-laundering case, official sources said on Saturday. The 55-year-old legislator was taken into custody in the early hours in Gurugram. He will be produced before a special Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) court in Ambala where the […]
LAHORE: Pakistan’s Punjab police on Friday shifted former foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi to Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat Jail from Adiala jail in Rawalpindi following a permission granted by an anti-terrorism court (ATC) here. “ATC-I Lahore Judge Khalid Arshad allowed Qureshi’s transfer on an application filed by DIG operations,” a court official told PTI on […]
WELLINGTON: A widespread Microsoft outage was disrupting flights, banks, media outlets and companies around the world on Friday. Escalating disruptions continued hours after the technology company said it was gradually fixing an issue affecting access to Microsoft 365 apps and services. The website DownDectector, which tracks user-reported internet outages, recorded growing outages in […]
NEW DELHI: The Congress on Friday said any move to bring down the Union government’s stake in 12 public sector banks to less than 51 per cent would continue to be resisted forcefully both in Parliament and outside. The party asserted that the mergers in the public sector banking industry in the last seven […]
MILWAUKEE: In his first major public address since surviving an assassination attempt, Donald Trump gave a clarion call for unity as he accepted his Republican party’s presidential nomination with a pledged to deliver a government that will begin four greatest years in American history if he is elected in November. The 78-year-old former US […]
MILWAUKEE: Expressing his gratitude to the American people for their outpouring of love and support following the assassination attempt on him, Donald Trump has said that his resolve is unbroken, and he is committed to delivering a government that serves the American people. The former US president said this after he formally accepted the […]
NEW DELHI: Union Home Minister Amit Shah Thursday said India is working on a system that will not allow “even a gram” of drugs to come into the country or trafficked abroad, as he exhorted anti-narcotics agencies to adopt a “ruthless” approach to dismantle supply chains. He was addressing senior officials of the central […]