Spread the love NEW DELHI: Describing the ongoing conflict in West Asia as “an issue of particular concern”, given that the region houses a crore Indians and holds the key to India’s energy security, external affairs minister S Jaishankar on Monday told Parliament that New Delhi’s approach would be guided by “national interest”.“Our national interest, including energy security and trade...
Middle East crisis: Oil tops $100, nears 4-year high as Saudis cut production
Spread the love Oil prices surged to $120 a barrel before retreating to $102 Monday as Saudi Arabia was reported to be cutting output, adding to the supply squeeze due to disruption in the Strait of Hormuz.Finance ministers of developed G7 nations, who met Monday evening, deferred plans to tap their strategic reserves to cool down the global flare-up in...
CBI coerced key witness in Dera chief case: HC
Spread the love CHANDIGARH: Punjab and Haryana high court’s exoneration of jailed Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim on March 7 in the 2002 murder of journalist Ram Chander Chhatrapati comes with a scathing indictment of CBI’s investigation – coercion of a key witness, failure to cross-examine the police officer who recorded the victim’s dying declaration and a conspiracy...
Stressful, toxic people in your life may make you age faster, say researchers
Spread the love NEW DELHI: The company you keep may shape your life – and if it includes stressful or toxic people, it could even make you age faster.A new international study suggests that difficult or persistently stressful people in one’s social circle may quietly accelerate biological ageing and affect overall health.Researchers analysing social network data and biological samples from...
97% of employers say English proficiency key now: Report
Spread the love NEW DELHI: Nearly 97% of employers in India say English proficiency among employees is more important today than it was five years ago, while 87% believe the rapid adoption of AI is increasing the need for English skills at workplace, according to a global survey by ETS (Educational Testing Service), the organisationwhich is behind the TOEIC English...
US-Iran war clouds Paramount’s Warner Bros deal; Chinese tech giant may return
Spread the love FILE – The Warner Bros. water tower appears at Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File) It took over a month for Paramount Skydance to convince Warner Bros shareholders and management that it is offering a better deal than Netflix. However, it seems the US-Iran war may change all the equations. The ongoing may...
Can acid-attack survivors be given government jobs? SC to states
Spread the love NEW DELHI: Continuing with its humanitarian approach towards acid attack survivors, the SC on Monday asked the states and Union Territories to explain whether these physically disfigured people can be rehabilitated through preferential employment in govts and PSUs through a policy decision.Dealing with a PIL by acid attack survivor Shaheen Malik, a bench of CJI Surya Kant...
Do we have nothing except Bengal SIR to hear, asks SC
Spread the love NEW DELHI: Days after it criticised Bengal govt for frequently rushing to SC with ‘vague and irrelevant’ reasons to delay the ongoing SIR of the state’s poll rolls, petitions by persons complaining against deletion of their names from voter lists saw the court finding itself facing the same issue, leading an exasperated bench of CJI Surya Kant...
‘Without money, we will die here too’: Why war hasn’t stopped Indian workers heading to Middle East
Spread the love NEW DELHI: Even as tensions escalate across West Asia, queues outside visa application centres for Gulf countries in Delhi show little sign of slowing, with many workers saying economic compulsions leave them little choice but to travel to the restive region.Outside centres processing visas for UAE and Saudi Arabia on Monday, dozens of applicants were seen sitting...
Manchester-bound flight returns to Delhi after flying 13 hours; London-Mumbai diverted to Cairo
Spread the love NEW DELHI: A call sign confusion led to IndiGo’s flight to Manchester on Monday flying for over 13 hours and then returning to Delhi from over Africa.The reason: The aircraft operating was a wet-leased (hired with operating crew) Norse Atlantic Boeing 787 which had got the clearance. But being operated by IndiGo and the clearance being sought...
