A second-time presidential candidate who lost out to Tayyip Erdogan in a 2018 vote could push Turkey’s May election to a second round, potentially boosting the president’s prospects of winning, according to analysts and polls.Muharrem Ince, formerly of the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), joined the fray last month and secured a spot on…
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Tuesday he had sent a letter to his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping urging him to help control shipments of the synthetic opioid fentanyl sent across the Pacific Lopez Obrador read out the letter during a news conference in which he defended his country’s efforts to curb trafficking…
Britain is considering plans to create a distinction in equality laws between a person who was born a particular sex and someone who has transitioned to become that sex. Britain’s minister for women and equalities, Kemi Badenoch, wrote to the head of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, the equalities watchdog, to say she wanted…
Hundreds of Google employees staged a walkout at the company’s London offices on Tuesday, following a dispute over layoffs. In January, Google’s parent company Alphabet (GOOGL.O) announced it was laying off 12,000 employees worldwide, equivalent to 6% of its global workforce. The move came amid a wave of job cuts across corporate America, particularly in the tech sector,…
Pakistan’s Supreme Court ordered on Tuesday that elections in two provinces should go ahead by May 15 despite government reluctance to hold the votes now as it struggles with an economic crisis and a political challenge from the opposition. Ousted prime minister Imran Khan has been pushing for assembly elections in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa…
Life on our planet faced a stern test during the Cryogenian Period that lasted from 720 million to 635 million years ago when Earth twice was frozen over with runaway glaciation and looked from space like a shimmering white snowball. Life somehow managed to survive during this time called “Snowball Earth,” and a new study…
India batting legend Virender Sehwag made a rather eye-opening remark on the record while anticipating Dhoni’s reaction to it. MS Dhoni last played cricket in IPL 2022. For almost a year, he has been absent from the sport, having announced his retirement from international cricket in 2020. Yet, he looked in sublime form in two…
Swastika Mukherjee said she received threating emails and morphed pics from the co-producer of her upcoming film, Shibpur. The film will release on May 5. Actor Swastika Mukherjee made some serious accusations against a film producer named Sandeep Sarkar who is co-producing her upcoming Bengali film, Shibpur. Ahead of the film’s release, the actor claimed that she…
A total of four Covid-related deaths were reported on Tuesday – with the fatality rate at 1.82 percent. Maharashtra on Tuesday saw a rise in daily Covid-19 cases by 186 percent with 711 new infections reported in the last 24 hours – out of which 281 cases were reported from Mumbai alone. According to the…
IPL 2023 DC vs GT Live Score: Delhi Capitals are up against it after being put to bat first by Hardik Pandya. David Warner just about managed to survive the first over amid swinging conditions and Prithvi Shaw fell to Shami attempting a big pull shot. Delhi Capitals’s first home match of the season at the…
