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Air Force One (AP photo) US President Donald Trump’s designated aircraft, Air Force One, made a sharp U-turn and returned to Joint Base Andrews on Tuesday after the crew reported a “minor electrical issue” during his trip to Davos for the World Economic Forum.A US government motorcade was seen heading toward the Maryland base on...

Rupee hit a new low on Wednesday, falling 31 paise to reach 91.28 against the US dollar in early trade, extending its downward streak. Earlier on Tuesday, the currency had closed at a record low of 90.97, down 7 paise amid strong demand for dollars from metal importers and continued foreign fund outflows that weighed...

India pole vaulters Kuldeep Yadav, Dev Meena, and TTE at the railway station. (Video Grab) NEW DELHI: India’s leading pole vaulter and current national record holder, Dev Meena, and his teammates, including interuniversity champion Kuldeep Yadav, were left stranded for hours at Maharashtra’s Panvel station and missed their connection to Bhopal after railways officials told...

Canadian prime minister Mark Carney Canadian prime minister Mark Carney on Tuesday said the rules-based order, a concept that took shape after World War II, has been “partially false” and a “fiction” as the strongest country would “exempt themselves when convenient”.Stripping off the charade of the rules-based order, Carney said: “International law (was) applied with...

Warnings of a return to colonial-era power politics – and unusually blunt language – dominated discussions at the World Economic Forum on Tuesday as global leaders reacted to US President Donald Trump’s renewed push to seize Greenland and impose related trade tariffs, according to the AP. The annual gathering comes amid heightened tensions over global...

DELHI: A dense layer of smog covered Delhi-NCR on Wednesday morning, with the overall Air Quality Index (AQI) at 341 at 7 am, in the ‘very poor’ category. The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) reported that air quality in several areas fell in the ‘very poor’ to ‘severe’ categories. AQI readings included 312 at India...

File photo: Nasa astronaut Sunita Williams (Picture credit: PTI) Nasa astronaut Sunita Williams has retired after a distinguished 27-year career with the US space agency, with her retirement taking effect at the end of December 2025, Nasa announced on Wednesday (Tuesday in the US).Williams, who is now 60 years old, completed three missions aboard the...

CHENNAI: What was first believed to be a tragic fire accident inside a Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) office in Madurai has now been exposed as a meticulously planned murder. A month after senior branch manager A Kalyani Nambi, 54, was found charred to death inside her office cabin, investigators have arrested her colleague, assistant administrative...

UDAIPUR: Four teenagers were killed and six others injured when two cars collided on the old Ahmedabad bypass near Nela Talab in Udaipur district early on Saturday, police said. The impact of the crash was so severe that both vehicles were completely destroyed, leaving several occupants trapped inside. Emergency responders had to cut open the...

A commuter passenger train derailed near the Spanish city of Barcelona on Tuesday night (local time) after a retaining wall collapsed onto the tracks following heavy rain, killing the train driver and injuring 37 people, regional authorities said.The accident occurred near the town of Gelida, around 35 minutes outside Barcelona, involving a commuter service on...