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The United States will award Taiwanese chip giant TSMC up to $6.6 billion in direct funding to help build several plants on US soil, officials said Friday, finalizing the deal before a new administration enters the White House. “Today’s final agreement with TSMC — the world’s leading manufacturer of advanced semiconductors — will spur $65 […]

Comedian Conan O’Brien, a former late-night television host, will be the emcee for the Oscars for the first time, taking over from fellow funnyman Jimmy Kimmel, organizers said Friday. O’Brien, 61, will preside over Hollywood’s biggest night next March, hoping to maintain — and even perhaps improve — on an uptick in ratings seen earlier […]

More than 80 kg of high-grade cocaine worth around Rs 900 crore was recovered by the anti-drugs agency in Delhi today. The seizure of the party drug – one of the “biggest hauls of cocaine in Delhi” – came on a day a joint operation by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), Navy and Gujarat ATS […]

SpaceX, the company owned by ‘The First Buddy’ of US President-elect Donald Trump, is the first big beneficiary of a multi-million dollar deal inked by India’s space agency. Early next week, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket will take India’s most modern communications satellite GSAT-20, also called GSAT N-2, into orbit. This is the first of many […]

India is the top country of origin for international migration to OECD — Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development — countries, according to a report. Over 5.6 lakh Indians migrated to developing countries for employment, education, and family reunification in 2022, the 2024 International Migration Outlook revealed. In 2023, India continued to be the leading […]

The use of chemicals to kill rats by a pest control services firm in an apartment here has turned lethal for a family of four. Two children, aged six and one, died and their parents are battling for their lives as they are suspected to have inhaled rodenticide, police said on Friday. Two persons who […]

One of the new norovirus strains, often called the “winter vomiting bug,” is driving a surge in cases, with infections essentially doubling what would have been seen for this point in the year compared with before Covid, new data show. According to The Metro, the highly contagious virus can also cause diarrhoea and is linked […]

Donald Trump has started assembling his cabinet and selecting top administration officials after his presidential election win. This process involves choosing leaders for key positions overseeing various sectors. The structure of Trump 2.0 White House has left leaders “stunned” and “appalled”, with some of his choices even rubbing Republicans the wrong way. George Conway, a […]

The UK today scrambled fighter jets today after it noticed a Russian bomber approach its airspace. While the Royal Air Force was tracking the Russian jet, the Royal Navy found two separate groups of Russian Navy ships near its waters in the English Channel. Russia has upped its military movement in the Pacific, the Atlantic […]

Donald Trump’s pick for defense secretary Pete Hegseth, Fox News host, has many controversies but the most violent one is a video that resurfaced on social media showing him throwing an ax at a man during a live TV stunt. “Fox & Friends co-host Pete Hegseth may have ruined ax throwing on daytime television for […]

Carissa Jane Smith and Dixon Middle School (Picture credit: X/Google Map) Carissa Jane Smith, a 30-year-old former substitute teacher in the US state of Missouri, faces multiple charges for allegedly offering students money, alcohol, and marijuana in exchange for sex.Smith, from Dixon, located 130 miles southwest of St Louis, offered students money, alcohol, and marijuana […]

Donald Trump (Picture credit: AP) The incoming administration of President-elect Donald Trump is developing plans to dismiss senior military officers who prioritized diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives over combat preparedness, according to a Breitbart report citing sources familiar with the matter.The report said that President-elect Trump’s transition team is compiling a list of such […]