28-04-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ BENGALURU/ MATHURA: India held the second phase of the world’s biggest election on Friday, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his rivals hurling accusations of religious discrimination and threats to democracy amid flagging voter turnout. Almost one billion people are eligible to vote …

28-04-2024 VICTORIA: A Canadian province will recriminalize the use of hard drugs in public, partly rolling back a landmark policy meant to help tackle a deadly opioid crisis. British Columbia’s (BC) decriminalization project began in January 2023 as a three-year pilot program but it has faced pushback over concerns around …

28-04-2024 RIYADH: The first grand opera to be produced in Saudi Arabia has had its opening performance in Riyadh, part of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s massively ambitious plans to shift the kingdom into a new era, economically and socially. Zarqa Al Yamama is the story of a blue-eyed tribal …

28-04-2024 DAMASCUS/ DUBAI: A crude oil tanker has been damaged in a missile attack off the coast of Yemen, the latest strike to be carried out by the Houthis. The incident happened roughly 15 nautical miles south-west of the Yemeni city of Mocha. British maritime security agency UKMTO reported that …

28-04-2024 WASHINGTON: The Pentagon has said it will “rush” Patriot air defence missiles and artillery ammunition to Ukraine as part of a $6bn (£4.8bn) military aid. It’s the second package from Washington this week, following $1bn in more immediate aid announced on Wednesday. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said earlier on …

The BJP is fighting the parliament elections in Telangana without any alliance. Hyderabad’27 April 2024: BJP Rajya Sabha member K Laxman on Saturday asked why the Congress did not think of conducting a caste census when it was in power for over five decades Replying to a query as to …

There is no mention of cow slaughter or beef in the Congress’ manifesto for the Lok Sabha elections. UP 27 April 2024:Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has ‘warned’ that if the Congress came to power in the Lok Sabha elections, the party would give people “the right to eat …

27-04-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: When Varsha Sahu accidentally inhaled the screw of her nose pin two months ago, she wasn’t too concerned. She thought the pin had gone into her stomach and would naturally pass through her digestive system but the metal object got lodged in her …

27-04-2024 TOKYO: A satellite operated by Japanese company Astroscale has chased down a 15 year-old piece of space junk and taken an up-close image of it. The object is a discarded rocket segment that’s about 11m by 4m (36ft by 15ft), with a mass of three tones. It’s the first …

27-04-2024 BEIJING: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has cautioned his US counterpart Antony Blinken against stepping on China’s “red lines”, as the two country’s top diplomats met in Beijing on Friday. Wang opened the meeting acknowledging the China-US relationship is beginning to stabilize, but it is still being tested by …