08-08-2025 NEW DELHI/ BENGALURU/NEW DELHI: In January, an old post on Elon Musk’s social media platform, X, became a concern for police in the Indian city of Satara. Written in 2023, the short message from an account with a few hundred followers described a senior ruling-party politician as “useless”. “This …

08-08-2025 JERUSALEM: Israel’s military chief has pushed back against Benjamin Netanyahu’s plans to seize areas of Gaza it doesn’t already control, three Israeli officials said, as the prime minister faces increasing pressure over the war both at home and abroad. During a tense, three-hour meeting on Tuesday, Eyal Zamir, the …

08-08-2025 Bureau Report + Agencies WASHINGTON/ NEW DELHI: United States President Donald Trump has issued an executive order imposing an additional 25 percent tariff on goods from India, as penalty for importing Russian oil. Wednesday’s hike comes in addition to the 25 percent tariff India already faces, making it subject …

07-08-2025 GAZA STRIP: At least 135 Palestinians, including 87 aid seekers, have been killed and 771 injured in Israeli attacks across Gaza in the past 24 hours, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry. The number of people who starved to death in the enclave during Israel’s war has risen to …

07-08-2025 SAN FRANCISCO: The production process that Intel, opens new tab hoped would pave the way to winning manufacturing deals and restore its edge in churning out high-end, high-margin chips is facing a big hurdle on quality as it puts newer technologies to the test, two people briefed on the …

07-08-2025 OTTAWA/ TOKYO: Australia and Japan have reached the largest defence-industry agreement ever between both countries for the production of advanced warships for the Australian Navy, the country’s Minister for Defence Richard Marles said. Australia will upgrade its naval force with 11 Mogami-class frigates, built by Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, …

07-08-2025 TOKYO: When the first atomic bomb detonated 80 years ago on August 6, thousands of the dead and dying were brought to the small, rural island of Ninoshima, just south of Hiroshima, by military boats with crews that had trained for suicide attack missions. Owing to inadequate medical care, …

07-08-2025 By SJA Jafri LAHORE: Thousands of supporters of former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan are rallying across the country to demand his release on the second anniversary of his imprisonment. Security officials on Tuesday said dozens of activists belonging to Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party have been arrested, with …

07-08-2025 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ DHANALI, UTTARAKHAND: Dozens of people are feared trapped after a cloudburst triggered flash floods in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand. Videos from the site of the accident show a giant stream of water gushing through the area and engulfing Dhanali, a small …

07-08-2025 DHAKA: Sinthia Mehrin Sokal remembers the blow to her head on July 15 last year when she, along with thousands of fellow students, marched during a protest against a controversial quota system in government jobs in Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka. The attack by an activist belonging to the student wing …