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File photo: The MV Hondius cruise ship departs the port in Praia, Cape Verde (Picture credit: AP) NEW DELHI: Two Indian nationals reportedly infected with hantavirus aboard a cruise ship appear to be isolated cases and there is “no immediate public health threat” to India, director of the ICMR’s National Institute of Virology (NIV) Dr...

According to probe findings, the gunmen allegedly followed Chandranath Rath’s Scorpio SUV before launching the attack. KOLKATA: Police stations in border districts of West Bengal intensified surveillance and searches as cops suspect the involvement of professional shooters from neighbouring states in the killing of BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari’s close aide Chandranath Rath, news agency PTI...

NEW DELHI: TVK has finally achieved the numbers needed to form the government in Tamil Nadu after days of intense political uncertainty, strategic negotiations and shifting alliance equations in the aftermath of the hung assembly verdict. The breakthrough came after Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK), Communist Party of India (CPI) and Communist Party of India (Marxist)...

Michael Dell and Susan Dell are donating $750 million to University of Texas at Austin. This donation will be used to build a new AI-focused medical centre and research campus. The major philanthropic move from the Dell couple comes shortly after their $6.25 billion pledge tied to “Trump Accounts” to fund investment vehicles introduced under...

Kanimozhi (File photo) NEW DELHI: DMK MP Kanimozhi has written a letter addressed to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla to change the seating arrangements in the Parliament so that they don’t have to sit near the Congress MPs, considering the recent rift after Tamil Nadu poll results.“I write to respectfully request suitable changes in the...

A few billion-dollar bets on oil markets were placed just before major Iran-related announcements by US President Donald Trump and the timing is now raising eyebrows across global trading floors. According to traders, market experts and a Reuters analysis of exchange data, oil positions worth as much as $7 billion were placed across March and...

For more than two years, India-Canada relations have been dominated by one deeply contentious issue: Khalistan. What started in September 2023 as a diplomatic standoff over the killing of Khalistani separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Canada soon escalated into one of the most serious diplomatic crises the two countries have faced in decades.Now, the issue...

Photo’s shared by Akhilesh NEW DELHI: Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav on Friday backed the Trinamool Congress and DMK after their defeats in the recent assembly elections, while taking an apparent swipe at the Congress, saying, “we are not the ones who leave during difficult times”.Akhilesh’s remark was in the backdrop of the Congress...

NEW DELHI: Amid the continuing deadlock over government formation in Tamil Nadu, the Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK) on Friday launched a sharp attack on actor-politician Vijay’s TVK, accusing the party of seeking support through WhatsApp messages instead of holding direct political consultations with leaders.Despite emerging as the single-largest party in the high-stakes Assembly elections, TVK...

Vaibhav Sooryavanshi and Jacob Bethell (Image: X) AB de Villiers has made a massive prediction involving two of cricket’s brightest young talents, comparing Jacob Bethell to India’s teenage sensation Vaibhav Sooryavanshi and backing both players to become future superstars of the game.While Bethell is still finding his feet in IPL 2026, Sooryavanshi has already become...