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Image credits: IANS The Indian-flagged LPG tanker Pine Gas had to wait nearly three weeks before it could safely pass through the Strait of Hormuz, after Iran began allowing ships through the narrow waterway only selectively.The vessel had loaded cargo at the United Arab Emirates’ Ruwais port on February 28, a day before attacks on...

NEW DELHI: Bhabanipur, long seen as Mamata Banerjee’s safest political ground, is beginning to stir uneasy comparisons with Nandigram. In the 2021 assembly elections, her decision to contest from Nandigram ended in a dramatic setback, with Suvendu Adhikari defeating her in a high-stakes battle that reshaped the narrative of the polls and marked a symbolic...

In a span of just a month, BSE Sensex is down over 9,300 points or 11.48%! (AI image) Blood bath on Dalal Street, foreign investors’ exodus, mass selloff, several lakh crore of investors’ wealth wiped out – these are the headlines that have dominated financial news this month. The US-Israel-Iran war has dealt a massive...

Tensions in the Middle East have reached a critical level. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has threatened major American technology and aerospace companies, including Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp-parent company Meta, Google and Apple, with an attack and urged the staff to evacuate their office in the region. The Iran’s multi-service primary force has said...

NEW DELHI: An encounter broke out in Jammu and Kashmir’s Ganderbal district after terrorists opened fire on security forces during a search operation, officials said on Tuesday. According to the Army’s Chinar Corps, Operation Arahama was launched jointly by the Indian Army and Jammu and Kashmir Police in the Arahama area based on specific intelligence...

Iran’s newly appointed Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is in the country but has been avoiding public appearances “for understandable reasons,” Russia’s ambassador to Tehran told the RTVI news outlet on Tuesday. Mojtaba’s absence has raised questions about Iran’s leadership and command structure since the start of the conflict with the United States and Israel.Mojtaba was...

‘Cause shade never made anybody less gay’ – Taylor Swift, You Need to Calm DownLast week, two contrasting developments related to the LGBTQ+ community made global headlines. One, in the German city of Munich, Dominik Krause was elected mayor, the first openly gay man to hold a constitutional office in a European country.Second, at the...

<img src="https://static.toiimg.com/thumb/msid-129929732,imgsize-50940,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4/article-66.jpg" alt="Trump taunts world saying go get oil from inflamed Iran — or buy from America" title=" File photo ” decoding=”async” fetchpriority=”high”> File photo TOI Correspondent from Washington: In a pair of incendiary social media posts on Tuesday, MAGA supremo Donald Trump told US allies and partners to “go get your own oil” from...

Chinese state media has launched a sharp swipe against Washington’s military campaign in Iran, using stark imagery and satire to frame the conflict as both destructive and hypocritical.In one of the posts, China’s official news agency Xinhua News Agency shared a split image of a children’s playground. On one side, swings and slides stood intact...

Image credits: AP Thousands of women and girls sought treatment for sexual violence in war-ravaged Sudan over nearly two years, with Doctors Without Borders saying Tuesday that rape is being used as a weapon in the country’s brutal conflict.The aid group, known by its French acronym MSF, said at least 3,396 survivors of sexual violence...