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NEW DELHI: BJP leader Nitin Nabin has been elected unopposed as the national president of the Bharatiya Janata Party and will formally take charge on January 20. The transition ceremony, scheduled for 11.30 am at the party headquarters, will be attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, home minister Amit Shah, and defence minister Rajnath Singh,...

Nvidia NVDA stock Nvidia’s return to the Chinese market has hit a major roadblock due to its latest problems with sales of high-end H200 AI chips in the country. Days after Chinese customs officials moved to block the newly-approved processors from entering the mainland, suppliers of key components for the AI chip have reportedly halted...

Anduril founder Palmer Luckey (left) with Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg Palmer Luckey, the Oculus founder whom Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg fired after acquiring his company for $2 billion, has now shared his opinion on the latest round of layoffs at Meta. Luckey expressed sympathy for those affected and has also argued that the job cuts...

When results from Maharashtra’s long-delayed civic polls came on January 16, it became clear that the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) has made it to the top once again. The BJP swept 1,425 of 2,869 seats across 29 municipal corporations, a strike rate of nearly 50%. In Mumbai’s Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), a Shiv Sena citadel...

Several people were killed and many injured after a blast in Kabul’s Shahr-e-Naw area, Taliban’s interior ministry said on Monday.“An explosion occurred in a hotel on Gulfaroshi Street in Shahr-e-Naw, the fourth district of Kabul city, causing casualties,” Kabul police spokesman Khalid Zadran said. As per local reports, the blast occurred infront of a Chinese...

Bangladeshi nationals approved for a B1/B2 (business and tourist) United States visa will be required to post a bond of up to $15,000 from January 21, 2026, the US Embassy in Dhaka announced on it’s social media page. This new rule will apply only to visas issued on or after that date. Nationals holding a...

BCB denies January 21 ICC deadline NEW DELHI: The Bangladesh Cricket Board has denied reports that the ICC set a January 21 deadline for a decision on the T20 World Cup. The board says no such date was communicated. It has again asked for its matches to be moved to another venue.BCB director Amzad Hossain...

(AI image generated using ChatGPT) In the months before the Iraq war, intelligence about Saddam Hussein’s weapons programmes moved through Western capitals with unusual urgency and little margin for doubt. Claims that Iraq was seeking uranium in Africa, a key ingredient for nuclear weapons, were treated as warning signs of an imminent threat. The implication...

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday personally received UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan at the airport in New Delhi, a special gesture asserting the close ties between the two countries, as the visiting leader arrived for a brief but high-level official visit.MBZ’s visit, undertaken at the invitation of Prime Minister...