Category: News

NEW DELHI: A man walked into Laxmi Nagar Police Station in east Delhi on Monday and allegedly confessed to killing 3 members of his family, police said. No PCR call was received prior to his arrival.According to police, the accused, identified as Yashbir Singh, a resident of the Subhash Chowk area of Laxmi Nagar, went...

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has once again cautioned that artificial intelligence is presently an ‘industrial bubble’, even he insisted that the technology itself is real and will ultimately deliver huge amounts of benefits to the society. Recently, speaking at the Italian Tech Week alongside Exor CEO John Elkann, Bezos said that the excitement around AI...

Europe faces a “huge security problem” due to its deep reliance on American tech giants for digital infrastructure, warns Belgium’s cybersecurity chief. He states Europe has “lost the internet” and cannot guarantee data stays within the EU. This dependence hinders innovation and leaves the continent vulnerable to cyber threats, necessitating a push for European digital...

Deposed Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro on Monday arrived in Manhattan ahead of his first court appearance in the United States, days after his dramatic seizure in Caracas. Maduro, 63, was flown by helicopter to a Manhattan heliport near the federal courthouse before being transferred into an armoured vehicle.Wearing a tan prison jumpsuit and bright orange...

NEW DELHI: The Congress move to appoint Priyanka Gandhi Vadra as chairperson of the candidate screening committee for the upcoming Assam elections has added to the murmurs of leadership debate within the grand old party, with the BJP-led NDA claiming internal conflict between the Gandhi siblings. Soon after Priyanka’s elevation, which was announced on Sunday,...

Iran’s head of judiciary said on Monday that it will show “no leniency towards rioters,” even as he acknowledged the public’s right to protest, after demonstrations over economic grievances entered their second week, according to AFP.“I instruct the attorney general and prosecutors across the country to act in accordance with the law and with resolve...

William Shakespeare needs no introduction. It is impossible to imagine English literature without this literary giant. Without even realising we use so many sentences and phrases that owe their origin to Shakespeare. Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets, and each of them are an invaluable nugget of pure wisdom. William Shakespeare was born in 1564, in Stratford-upon-Avon,...

Virat Kohli NEW DELHI: In what seems to be a last-moment decision, star batter Virat Kohli will not play Delhi’s Vijay Hazare Trophy match against Railways on Tuesday, January 6, in Bengaluru.As per BCCI guidelines, Kohli had played two matches for Delhi earlier in the tournament, against Andhra and Gujarat. He scored 131 and 77...

NEW DELHI: Amid a tightening security environment shaped by a militarily assertive China and a volatile Pakistan, the defence ministry has cleared military modernisation projects worth nearly Rs 79,000 crore, marking one of the most consequential procurement approvals in recent years. The clearances were accorded by the Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) chaired by defence minister...