[ad_1] London: London’s Metropolitan Police on Friday said it had charged comedian and actor Russell Brand with rape and a number of other sexual offences. Russell Brand, who became known internationally as the former husband of pop star Katy Perry after forging a career as a stand-up comedian with risque routines, was also charged with…
[ad_1] The great Russian physicist and Nobel laureate Lev Landau once remarked that “cosmologists are often in error, but never in doubt”. In studying the history of the universe itself, there is always a chance that we have got it all wrong, but we never let this stand in the way of our inquiries. A…
[ad_1] New Delhi: Union Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal’s note to Indian startups – asking them to shift focus from food delivery to more advanced technological solutions – has led to a debate online. Some industry leaders, such as Zepto co-founder Aadit Palicha, pointed out India’s consumer startups have generated thousands of crores in tax contributions…
[ad_1] Chennai: Adding fuel to speculation that he may be replaced as the president of the Tamil Nadu BJP, K Annamalai has said that he is not in the running to be the next state chief of the party. BJP sources said AIADMK chief Edapaddi K Palaniswami has made Mr Annamalai’s removal a precondition for…
[ad_1] Mohammad Yunus, the Nobel Prize winner, was in China recently, and in an exercise best characterised as one of supreme oratory acrobatics, he wove Northeast India into a narrative that reduces Bangladesh to the exclusive guardian of the Bay of Bengal. If this was a geopolitical chess move, it was one made with an…
[ad_1] Indian cricket team star fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah will not only miss the IPL 2025 game against Lucknow Super Giants on Friday but is also doubtful for Mumbai Indians’ next game against Royal Challengers Bengaluru on April 7, according to a report by ESPNCricinfo. The report claimed that Bumrah, who has been…
[ad_1] Beijing: China said on Friday it would slap 34 percent tariffs on all imports of US goods from April 10 after Washington imposed steep new levies on Chinese products. “For all imported goods originating from the US, an additional tariff of 34 percent on top of the current applicable tariff rate will be imposed,”…
[ad_1] Chandigarh: Punjab Police on Thursday dismissed senior woman constable Amandeep Kaur, a day after she was arrested for carrying 17.71 grams of heroin. Ms Kaur was arrested amid the Punjab government’s ongoing anti-drug drive, ‘Yudh Nasheyan Virudh,’ following a tip-off. Police, along with the Anti-Narcotics Task Force (ANTF), caught Ms Kaur’s SUV, a Mahindra…
[ad_1] Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov, a 24-year-old US YouTuber, was arrested for entering Andaman’s North Sentinel Island, home to the world’s most isolated tribe. No one visits the island because of the presence of the Sentinelese tribe, known to respond violently and aggressively to outsiders. Before Mr Polykov, the last person known to have entered the…
[ad_1] Constitutional Court upheld Yoon’s impeachment. Seoul, South Korea: South Korea’s ousted president Yoon Suk Yeol apologised Friday after the country’s Constitutional Court upheld his impeachment over a botched martial law declaration, immediately stripping him of office. “I am truly sorry and heartbroken that I was unable to meet your expectations,” he said in a…
