Washington: President Joe Biden has warned Americans that his predecessor Donald Trump and his die-hard followers are trying to “undermine” democracy and asked them to confront the “extremists” who fan the flames of political violence in pursuit of power. Delivering his sharpest rebuke yet of Republicans in a prime-time speech from the iconic Independence Hall […]
WASHINGTON/ISLAMABAD: Rising inflation in Pakistan, accelerating to 27.3 per cent in August — a 47-year high — can trigger “social protest and instability” in the cash-strapped country, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned. Pakistan’s inflation measured by the consumer price index (CPI) accelerated to 27.3 per cent in August this year — the level […]
Beijing: China on Friday brushed aside calls, including from UN chief Antonio Guterres, to implement the UN report accusing Beijing of “serious human rights violations” against Uygur Muslims in Xinjiang province, terming it a “patchwork of disinformation” that serves as a political tool for the US and some western forces. The much-awaited report by outgoing […]
NEW YORK: Seventeen Indian citizens were among a group of 100 migrants apprehended while illegally climbing over a fence into the US at a border post in California, authorities said. The San Diego Sector Border Patrol agents from the Imperial Beach Station apprehended around 2 am on Tuesday morning the group of 100 migrants, consisting […]
DUBAI.: Iran sent a written response early on Friday in negotiations over a final draft of a roadmap for parties to return to its tattered nuclear deal with world powers, though the US cast doubt on Tehran’s offer. Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani said in a statement that “the sent text has a constructive […]
New Delhi: Union Minister Jitendra Singh on Friday said the new National Education Policy (NEP) will reorient India’s education system to global benchmarks. Addressing the PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry Education Summit 2022, Singh said NEP is the biggest path-breaking reform in India since independence as it is not only progressive and visionary but […]
Ranchi: Suspended BJP leader Seema Patra was planning to take her tribal help Sunita Khakha, who was allegedly kept captive and tortured for many years, to an ashram in Varanasi and dump her there, despite not being able to walk or go to toilet on her own , according to the original complaint with the […]
Amaravati: Andhra Pradesh government will again raise the State bifurcation-related issue at the 30th Southern Zonal Council (SZC) meeting in Thiruvananthapuram on Saturday, according to Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy. With the issue demanding that the Centre put in place a system to find a solution to the matter that has remained unresolved […]
New Delhi: The overall enrolment in schools will have declined by more than 14 per cent by 2025, beginning from 2011, with the enrolment of girls expected to decline by over 2 per cent more than that of boys, an NCERT study has projected. The enrolment of scheduled caste students would remain unchanged for the […]
NEW DELHI: The All India Football Federation (AIFF) on Friday got a former player as its first president in its 85-year history with Kalyan Chaubey beating the legendary Bhaichung Bhutia in the election for the top post here. The 45-year-old Chaubey, a former goalkeeper with Mohun Bagan and East Bengal, won 33-1, a result that […]