Category: Events

Xi was visiting India for the first time in seven years. NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi briefly interrupted his opening remarks at the Brics Summit on Saturday after Chinese President Xi Jinping appeared to be uncomfortable.PM Modi turned towards Xi and asked the translator accompanying the Chinese president, “Is it okay?” He repeated the...

Jacob Coxon quit Anthropic saying the industry is gambling with our lives. Four days later, Dario Amodei called for slowing down, and Sam Altman, Elon Musk and Google DeepMind agreed. An Anthropic researcher has quit the artificial intelligence industry, saying the choices that will decide how safely superintelligent AI arrives are being made inside a...

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday warned against the weaponisation of technology and critical minerals, saying that there is a need for inclusivity in the adoption of technology.During his closing remarks on the second day of the Brics summit, PM Modi said that tightening control over technology and critical minerals could hinder shared...

A group of Israeli youth mock and jeer at a Palestinian woman displaced by settlers. For years, the international response to Israel’s settlement project in the occupied West Bank followed a familiar pattern: condemnation, UN resolutions and warnings that continued construction was killing the two-state solution. But in 2026, the pattern changed.On September 8, UK...

Grylls with wife Shara In 2001, Bear Grylls bought a remote island off the coast of north Wales for £95,000. At the time, the island had just one house, which Grylls described as a “complete wreck”. He and his friends then spent four years rebuilding the property, turning the isolated place into a family retreat.The...

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi hailed the “growing strength, appeal and unprecedented trust” in Brics during the second day of the multilateral event in New Delhi.While chairing the Brics session on “Inclusive global governance and strengthening multilateralism”, PM Modi said that cooperation and support between the Brics members has led the shared vision transform...

India is hosting the BRICS Summit on September 12-13, with leaders of the 11 member countries and 10 partner countries, attending the event Chinese President Xi Jinping skipped a gala dinner hosted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi for Brics leaders and other dignitaries on Saturday, after attending the first day of the summit and holding...

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi joined Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping and other world leaders for a family photo at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi on Sunday as the 18th Brics Summit entered its second and final day.PM Modi welcomed several visiting leaders at the summit venue, including Malaysian Prime Minister...

The Strait of Hormuz is one of the world’s most important routes for oil and gas shipments Iran and Oman have agreed on details of new entry and exit routes for the Strait of Hormuz and will brief Gulf countries on the outcome of their consultations at a regional meeting in Muscat on Monday, Iranian...

Osama bin Laden (File photo) Three years before the 9/11 attacks shocked the United States, then-President Bill Clinton was warned by the CIA that Osama bin Laden intended to carry out attacks in India, Pakistan, Uganda and possibly Nigeria.A newly declassified CIA warning dated August 28, 1998, said Bin Laden had survived US missile strikes...