Vienna: The head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog urged Iran on Monday to cooperate with his inspectors amid a standoff over its atomic program and a threat by Western nations to censure Tehran over its noncooperation. “We have to recognize that we have not been able to get the results we were expecting,” Rafael […]
WASHINGTON: The US Supreme Court on Monday asked President Joe Biden’s administration to weigh in on whether the justices should hear a case on whether Meta Platforms Inc’s WhatsApp can pursue a lawsuit accusing Israel’s NSO Group of exploiting a bug in the messaging app to install spy software. The justices are considering NSO’s appeal […]
Moscow: The Russian foreign minister has warned the West that if it provides Ukraine with long-range rockets, Moscow will respond by taking over larger areas of Ukraine. Speaking during an online news conference Monday, Sergey Lavrov said that the longer the range of weapons you supply, the farther away the line from where neo-Nazis could […]
Kathmandu: Nearly 34 tonnes of waste have been collected from four mountains, including the world’s highest peak Mount Everest, in Nepal as part of a cleaning campaign that concluded on World Environment Day, the Nepal Army said on Monday. A team led by the Nepal Army collected 33.8 tonnes of garbage during the Safa Himal […]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s main opposition party led by ousted premier Imran Khan on Monday rejected Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s offer of holding a “grand dialogue” among all stakeholders to fix the cash-starved country’s economic woes, saying the government was making “hilarious claims” to hide its failures. Prime Minister Sharif on Sunday emphasised the need for initiating […]
Lucknow: President Ram Nath Kovind on Monday said there can be differences of ideology between the ruling party and the opposition but there should not be any animosity between both the sides. Addressing a joint sitting of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council and the Assembly, Kovind said the UP Legislature has a glorious history of […]
New Delhi: Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Monday lashed out at the BJP government over the state of the economy, saying the per capita income of Indians is dropping but the government is suffering from “policy bankruptcy” and has no answers. He feared that the economic situation will only get worse in the coming […]
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday launched a special series of coins that are also ‘visually impaired friendly’. The coins of Re 1, Rs 2, 5, 10 and 20 denominations will have the Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav (AKAM) design are not commemorative coins and will be part of circulation. “These new series of […]
New Delhi: Maruti Suzuki India (MSI) on Monday said it has set up a 20 MWp solar power plant at its Manesar-based manufacturing facility. The initiative will contribute 28,000 MW per annum, which is equivalent to the energy required for the production of over 67,000 cars annually. “Harnessing renewable energy is the need of the […]
NEW DEHLI: Chandigarh The Punjab government will set up a number of small commercial dairy farms in the state and focus on involving women in the business. Animal husbandry and dairy development minister Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal on Monday held a review meeting with the officials of the dairy development department and directed them to carry […]