India

Chandigarh, November 17 Quite naturally, the ongoing elections are also a test of popularity of incumbent chief ministers as well as their challengers in the five states. Political stakes are high for all of them, and for some the 2023 Assembly elections may well be their last hurrah in electoral politics. However, apart from them, there is one more individual …

Hyderabad, November 17 Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday said Telangana is going to witness a ‘toofan’ (storm) of support for his party in the legislative assembly polls and that the ruling BRS would lose badly. Addressing a rally at Pinapaka in Khammam district, he alleged that the corruption of BRS can be seen all over the state. He said …

Mumbai, November 17 Actor Harsh Varrdhan Kapoor, who recently met former football player David Beckham, has given a befitting reply to a troll who commented on his picture with the legend. David is on a three-day visit to India as UNICEF’s Goodwill Ambassador, as he attended the thrilling India vs New Zealand World Cup 2023 semi-final at Wankhede Stadium. After …

Chandigarh, November 17 Amid the Israel-Hamas war, a decade-old letter written by former Al Qaida head Osama bin Laden has gone viral on social media. The Bin Laden’s 2002 ‘Letter to America’, which was recently posted on X by a user, has ignited a debate regarding the US backing for Israel in its current conflict with Hamas. The White House …

Male, November 16 Maldives President-elect Mohamed Muizzu will take oath of office on Friday at a ceremony in the capital Male, where India would be represented by Union Minister Kiren Rijiju. Muizzu, a close associate of former Maldives President Abdulla Yameen who forged close ties with China during his Presidency from 2013 to 2018, defeated India-friendly incumbent Ibrahim Mohamed Solih …

Gaza/Jerusalem, November 16 Palestinian medics said on Thursday they were increasingly afraid for the lives of hundreds of patients and medical staff at Gaza’s biggest hospital, cut off from all links to the outside world for more than a day after Israeli forces entered. Gaza’s health ministry said Israeli soldiers had removed bodies from the grounds of the Al Shifa …

Woodside/Beijing, November 16 US President Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping have agreed to resume high-level military-to-military communication and counter-narcotics cooperation as they met for four hours in a bid to establish a working relationship amidst Beijing’s aggressive actions in the Indo-Pacific region. The two leaders also affirmed the need to address the risks of advanced artificial intelligence …

London, November 16 TikTok and Facebook owner Meta are filing legal challenges against new European Union rules designed to counter the dominance of digital giants and make online competition fairer by giving consumers more choice. TikTok said in a blog post Thursday that it’s appealing being classified as an online “gatekeeper” by the Digital Markets Act, arguing that it’s playing …

Deir Al-Balah (Gaza Strip), November 17 The wreckage goes on for block after devastated block. The smell is sickening. Every day, hundreds of people claw through tons of rubble with shovels and iron bars and their bare hands. They are looking for the bodies of their children. Their parents. Their neighbours. All of them killed in Israeli missile strikes. The …

Yangon, November 16 Myanmar’s military rulers have ordered all government staff and those with military experience to prepare to serve in case of emergency, an official said on Thursday, after the junta reported “heavy assaults” from insurgents in several places. Myanmar’s military has battled ethnic minority and other insurgencies for decades but a 2021 coup has brought unprecedented coordination between …