TEL AVIV: Israel was mere moments away from an air strike on April 1 that killed several senior Iranian commanders at Iran‘s embassy complex in Syria before it told the US what was about to happen. Israel’s closest ally had just been caught off guard. Publicly, US officials voiced support for Israel, but privately, they…
LONDON: Two Indian students were Wednesday found dead in the water at a popular sightseeing spot in Scotland. The bodies of the two men were recovered on Wednesday night by emergency services from the water at the Linn of Tummel, picturesque roaring waterfalls surrounded by rocks situated northwest of Pitlochry in Perthshire, where the rivers…
NEW DELHI: The United States, on Thursday used its veto power to block a UN resolution that had widespread support. This resolution aimed to facilitate full United Nations membership for the state of Palestine. Among the 15 members of the Security Council, 12 voted in favor, while the United States opposed, and two abstained. The…
It was a brazen theft: thousands of gold bars and millions of dollars in bank notes stolen a year ago from Toronto’s international airport.Canadian and US authorities said on Wednesday six people, including two Indian-origin men, have been arrested and three more are being sought in connection with what they called the largest gold heist…
NEW DELHI/ROORKEE: A fossil found in 2005 from Gujarat’s Kutch and believed till now to be that of a giant crocodile has turned out to be of one of the largest snakes that ever existed on Earth .The discovery of ‘Vasuki Indicus’ by scientists of IIT, Roorkee could prove to be a “jackpot” of information…
NEW DELHI: Tata Motors will manufacture Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) luxury cars at a $1 billion plant that it is planning to build in Tamil Nadu, two sources with direct knowledge of the matter said.The plan would mark the first time that JLR-branded cars would be manufactured from scratch in India. The cars would be…
NEW DELHI: Ruling out any possibility of returning to ballot paper, Supreme Court on Thursday said there was a huge drawback with that system and use of EVMs had stood the test of time with rising voting percentage reflecting voters’ faith in them.As questions were raised on functioning of EVMs and the possibility of them…
NEW DELHI: Take a guess. Which is the product among the top 30 items in India’s import basket that saw the sharpest increase? It is pulses, that is part of your daily diet.Facing a shortage in all segments, other than gram or chana, govt has been importing pulses – tur, urad, masur (red lentils) and…
NEW DELHI/PATNA: RJD may have succeeded in doing what BJP couldn’t. After a video of an RJD worker making derogatory remarks against Reena Paswan, wife of late Ram Vilas Paswan and mother of Chirag, at a meeting attended by party chief Tejashwi Yadav went viral, Chirag’s uncle Pashupati Paras lashed out at RJD for insulting…
NEW DELHI/PATNA: RJD may have succeeded in doing what BJP couldn’t. After a video of an RJD worker making derogatory remarks against Reena Paswan, wife of late Ram Vilas Paswan and mother of Chirag, at a meeting attended by party chief Tejashwi Yadav went viral, Chirag’s uncle Pashupati Paras lashed out at RJD for insulting…
