New Delhi’July 07 2023:Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be on a two-day visit to Uttar Pradesh from today. He will visit Gorakhpur and Varanasi and inaugurate and lay the foundation stone of multiple development projects. PM Modi will also flag off two Vande Bharat Express Trains from Gorakhpur Railway Station. …

07-07-2023 By Syed Najaf Ali Skoukat NEW DELHI: Eid-e-Ghadir is a religious, Islamic holiday celebrated by Shia Muslims to commemorate the appointment of Ali ibn e Abi Talib (AS) as the leader and religious authority after the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). The event can be traced back to the time in …

07-07-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ ISLAMABAD: The love story of a Pakistani woman and an Indian man who met through popular online game PUBG has been making headlines in India after the couple landed up in jail. Seema Ghulam Haider, 27, met Sachin Meena, 22, through the virtual …

07-07-2023 MOSCOW: Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, who last month brokered a deal to end Wagner’s armed mutiny in Russia, says the mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin is no longer in Belarus, as was widely believed, but rather in St Petersburg. Four people were killed in a Russian missile attack on an …

07-07-2023 NEW YORK: Instagram owner Meta has launched its new social media network Threads, aiming to capitalize on the turmoil at Twitter under billionaire owner Elon Musk. “Let’s do this,” Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg wrote on Wednesday in a post welcoming users to the site. “Welcome to Threads.” “I think …

07-07-2023 HILTON HEAD ISLAND, CAROLINA: Authorities said Tuesday that a woman who was attacked by an alligator and was killed while she was walking with her dog in South Carolina in the Spanish Wells community on Hilton Head Island, reported CBS News. It was the second fatal attack by an …

07-07-2023 WASHINGTON: Former President Donald Trump launched a baseless attack on Wednesday, suggesting that a baggie of cocaine discovered at the White House over the weekend belonged to President Joe Biden and his son Hunter. The allegations came after US Secret Service agents found the powder cocaine during a routine …

07-07-2023 PARIS: President Emmanuel Macron’s government faced a backlash Wednesday after the centrist leader called for powers to “cut off” social media in case of widespread violence like riots over the past week. “We have to think about the social networks, about the bans we’ll have to put in place. …

07-07-2023 WASHINGTON: The US citizenship test is getting updated, and this has caused worries for immigrants with lower English proficiency. The new version, expected to be released next year, proposes adding a speaking section to assess English skills, according to media. This has raised concerns as it may make the …

06-07-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ JHARKHAND: A court in India has given 10-year jail terms to 10 men for beating a Muslim man to death four years ago. Tabrez Ansari, 24, died days after being attacked by people who accused him of stealing a motorcycle in the eastern …