Miscellaneous

Houston: US Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has sued Google for its "unauthorized capture and use" of biometric data of millions of Texans for the tech giant's commercial interests, Paxton's office said. The lawsuit alleges the internet…

Guwahati: The Assam police have arrested four alleged members of the banned Popular Front of India (PFI) from different locations in Kamrup district, officials said on Friday. The arrested PFI members have been identified as Nazrul Islam,…

United Nations: China has blocked India's proposal at the United Nations to list the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist Shahid Mahmood as a global terrorist. India and the United States wanted Mahmood to be designated an international…

Patna: The Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) alleged that under his Muslim appeasement optics for the sake of vote bank, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar was pursuing a sectarian and divisive agenda. Retorting sharply at the question paper of…

New Delhi: Peace and tranquility in the border areas remains the basis for normal relations between India and China, External Affairs Minister Dr S. Jaishankar said on Tuesday, adding that the continuing impasse in Eastern Ladakh will not…

Beijing/London: China's foreign ministry has defended an incident in which a Hong Kong protester was pulled into Chinese consulate grounds in the British city of Manchester and beaten up. A spokesman said people had "illegally entered" the…

Kyiv: As per reports in international media, at least three explosions have been heard in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on Monday morning, after air raid sirens were sounded. The explosions happened at around 7 am local time, said the BBC.…

London: A Hong Kong pro-democracy protester was pulled into Chinese consulate grounds in Manchester and beaten up over alleged display of an inappropriate portrait of Xi Jinping. The UK Foreign Office said it was urgently seeking clarity…

Hyderabad: The Directorate of Enforcement (ED) has provisionally attached 28 immovable properties and other assets worth Rs 80.65 crore belonging to Nama Nageshwar Rao, MP and his family members in an ongoing money laundering case against…

Washington: US President Joe Biden says British Prime Minister Liz Truss’s controversial tax-cutting program was a mistake. "I wasn’t the only one that thought it was a mistake," Biden told reporters on Saturday when asked about Truss’s…

Jammu: The Kashmiri Pandit Sabha Jammu on Saturday condemned the killing of Puran Krishan Bhat in his home in Chowdhary Gund Shopian here at a meeting under the leadership of its President K K Khosa. The members expressed anguish over yet…

Sambhal (UP): A case has been lodged against Uttar Pradesh unit president of All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) Shaukat Ali and two others for hurting the religious sentiments of Hindus on Saturday, police sources said. Police…

Dhaka: The red carpet was rolled out as Brunei Darussalam Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Mu'izzaddin Waddaulah arrived on a three-day visit to Bangladesh. A special VVIP flight landed at Hazrat Shahjalal (R) International Airport (HSIA)…

Karachi: US President has expressed doubts over safety of nuclear weapons in Pakistan and whether it would be able to adhere to standards set by International Atomic Energy Agency. Pak Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Saturday…

Nagpur: Social media influencer Ajit Parse has been charged by the Kotwali police with defrauding a homoeopath of Rs 4.50 crore under the guise of getting a medical college approved in his name, a senior police official told UNI on…

Ottawa: Two Canadian police officers were shot dead in the line of duty, local police said on Wednesday. In a news release, the South Simcoe Police Service said its officers responded to a call at a home near 25th Sideroad and 9th Line in…

Moscow: Russia has added the Tech company Meta to the list of terrorist and extremist organizations, according to a database of the Federal Service for Financial Monitoring. Russia in late March banned Facebook and Instagram for "carrying…

Berlin: Close to 7,000 demonstrators took to the streets in more than 15 cities in Germany's Mecklenburg-Vorpommern state on October 10, demanding that the government ensure affordable cost of living and end arms supplies to Ukraine, German…

New Delhi: India is deeply concerned at the escalation of the conflict in Ukraine, including at the targeting of infrastructure and deaths of civilians, the Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said. Responding to media…

Washington: More and more Indians are entering the United States from the Mexican border. Since the beginning of the 2022 fiscal year that started last October, a record 16,290 Indian citizens have been taken into US custody at the Mexican…