Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin attends a news briefing following a phone call between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, in Beijing, China China firmly opposes the G7 joint statement out of Hiroshima and has complained to summit organiser Japan, the Chinese foreign ministry said on Saturday. The ministry said that…
As the war enters its 706th day, these are the main developments. Fighting Russia claimed to have taken control of Tabaivka, a tiny village on the front line in Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv region. Ukraine denied the claim and said fighting continued. Alexei Kulemzin, the Russian-installed mayor of the occupied Ukrainian city of Donetsk, blamed Ukraine for…
Delhi’s Partition museum is all set to open its doors to public from May 19. It houses memorabilia from the 1947 Partition of India. Some artifacts are also from the time when Delhiites got a chance to travel back to their ancestral homes, which are now in present day Pakistan. Evoking nostalgia are 40 articles…
Elon Musk, the CEO of X, has been accused of promoting anti-Semitic remarks and has visited kibbutzim that have been targeted by Hamas. During his visit to Israel on Monday, billionaire businessman Elon Musk—who has been charged with promoting anti-Semitic content on his social networking platform X—met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The software tycoon…
The Sunday’s temperature in Delhi is three notches above the season’s average, the India Meteorological Department said. The maximum temperature in Delhi on Sunday settled at 42.9 degrees Celsius, three notches above the season’s average, the Met office said. The relative humidity oscillated between 25 per cent and 74 per cent, it added. The night temperature had…
If investors agree on one thing this year, it’s that the dollar is going to fall. That’s made the greenback’s 2% bounce over the last month particularly confusing. U.S. inflation is cooling and the Federal Reserve may pause its interest rate hikes next month. So the dollar should be on the way down, right? Analysts…
U.S. President Joe Biden announced on Wednesday that his administration has approved an additional $9 billion in student debt relief for 125,000 borrowers. Biden has said he will pursue new measures to provide student loan relief to Americans after the Supreme Court blocked his plan to cancel hundreds of billions of dollars in debt. The president said…
Experts warn that the Israeli war on Gaza may spill over into a regional conflict amid multiple strikes in several countries. As Israel’s war on Gaza pushes on in its fourth month, fears of regional escalation are growing, with multiple nations and armed groups targeting each other’s territories and common waters, and the United States boosting its military…
Landslides in the Indian Himalayas around hydro power projects were caused mainly by topography, geological conditions and rainfall, the power ministry said on Wednesday, citing a study that ruled out construction as a factor. The government-run Indian Institute of Remote Sensing study of nine sites of state hydropower board NHPC Ltd (NHPC.NS) in Himalayan states showed “landslide…
A rusty Savita Punia-led outfit were completely outplayed by the Hockeyroos at the Mate Stadium. Playing its first international in four months, a rusty Indian women’s hockey team succumbed to a 2-4 to world No.3 in the first of the three Test matches between the two sides in Adelaide on Thursday. An out-of-form India never…
