15-02-2025 BERLIN: An Afghan man with suspected jihadist motives went on trial in Germany on Thursday over a knife attack that killed a policeman and wounded five others at an anti-Islam rally in the western city of Mannheim last year. The opening of the trial comes at a time of …

15-02-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: The Indian federal government took over direct control of the restive northeastern state of Manipur on Thursday after the region’s chief minister resigned amid ethnic violence that has killed at least 250 people over two years and displaced thousands. One of India’s smallest states, Manipur …

15-02-2025 LOS ANGELES: California’s levy of $1 billion on private insurers to help pay out wildfire claims in its state-created safety net program has renewed focus on the challenges the industry faces in a market already losing appeal rapidly, analysts said. Stringent regulations and recurring wildfires have driven some insurers …

15-02-2025 LONDON: Britain’s economy unexpectedly grew by 0.1% in the final quarter of last year, official figures showed on Thursday, offering some respite from the downbeat economic picture facing finance minister Rachel Reeves, though longer-term challenges remain. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast that British gross domestic product would shrink …

15-02-2025 WASHINGTON: Billionaire Elon Musk said on Thursday many federal government agencies must be eliminated as part of President Donald Trump’s push to radically overhaul the US government. “We do need to delete entire agencies, as opposed to leave part of them behind. Just leave part of them behind. It’s …

15-02-2025 BRUSSELS/ KYIV: Kyiv and its European allies demanded on Thursday that they be included in any peace negotiations, after US President Donald Trump spoke by phone with Russia’s Vladimir Putin and said Ukraine could neither have all of its land back nor join NATO. Russia’s financial markets soared and …

15-02-2025 CAIRO/ GAZA: Hamas has said it is committed to implementing the Gaza ceasefire deal with Israel and will continue releasing hostages as scheduled, raising hopes that a resumption of the war can be averted. Following talks in Cairo, the Palestinian armed group said mediators from Egypt and Qatar had …

15-02-2025 NAYPYIDAW: More than 250 people from 20 nationalities who had been working in telecom fraud centres in Myanmar’s Karen State have been released by an ethnic armed group and brought to Thailand. The workers, more than half of whom were from African or Asian nations, were received by the …

Hyderabad, February 15: BJP leader N Ramchander Rao on Saturday condemned Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy’s recent remarks about Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s caste, calling them “cheap” and politically tasteless. Rao alleged that Reddy’s comments were an attempt to divert attention from the Congress government’s caste census controversy in the …

New Delhi’ 15 Feb:: President Droupadi Murmu on Saturday expressed her condolences over the tragic deaths of Mahakumbh devotees in a road accident on the Mirzapur Highway in Uttar Pradesh’s Prayagraj. Taking to social media platform X, the President wrote, “The news of the death of many people in a …