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Hollywood actor Tom Cruise was awarded the Department of Navy Distinguished Public Service (DPS) Award on Tuesday, recognising the Top Gun actor’s lasting contributions to the US Navy through his iconic film roles. The DPS Award, the highest honour the Navy can bestow upon a civilian outside the Department of the Navy, was presented to […]

Properties worth Rs 14,131 crore – that once belonged to Vijay Mallya – have been seized and handed to public and private sector banks to pay off a part of the fugitive businessman’s substantial debts, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman told Parliament Tuesday. Ms Sitharaman told the Lok Sabha the Enforcement Directorate had, in total, restored […]

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez is grappling with a series of legal probes involving his inner circle, including his wife, brother and former transport minister, that have tainted his leftist government. While the 52-year-old and his Socialist party have dismissed the cases as baseless and part of a right-wing “smear campaign”, the judicial onslaught has […]

China has broken the US-held record for the world’s longest spacewalk after two of its astronauts completed a nine-hour spacewalk on Tuesday. Chinese astronauts Cai Xuzhe and Song Lingdong, aboard the Tiangong space station, wrapped the nine-hour extravehicular activity (EVA), also known as a spacewalk, at 9.57 pm (Beijing time), according to the China Manned […]

Countering the Opposition’s charge accusing Home Minister Amit Shah of insulting Dalit icon BR Ambedkar, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said the people have seen how the Congress has tried “every possible trick” to obliterate BR Ambedkar’s legacy and humiliate Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. In a six-point thread on X, the Prime Minister said […]

France’s notorious mass rape trial has generated an enormous echo in Spain, a pioneer in the fight against gender-based violence, and highlighted the often overlooked scourge of domestic sexual violence. A French court is expected to give its verdict this week in the case of Dominique Pelicot, 72, who has admitted drugging his then wife […]

On December 13, 2024, a food safety task force inspected the restaurants in Jubilee Hills in Hyderabad. The team have shared some details about the food safety violations found at two establishments. At Daily Rituals, located on Road No. 45 in Jubilee Hills, the officials seized several food items that were found to violate labelling […]

Japan’s government voiced dismay on Wednesday over the release of anti-whaling activist Paul Watson after Danish authorities refused Tokyo’s extradition request. Greenland arrested the Sea Shepherd founder in July for alleged damages and injuries caused by the group’s high-seas battles to stop Japan’s “scientific” whale hunts in the 2000s and 2010s. “It is regrettable that […]

A show cause notice was served to the organisers of the Diljit Dosanjh concert in Chandigarh for breaching the noise limits. The Chandigarh Union Territory administration said during the December 14 concert, the stipulated sound level of 75 decibels was breached.

NCP-SP chief Sharad Pawar on Wednesday met Prime Minister Narendra Modi, weeks after the Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi (MVA) was trounced in the assembly elections in Maharashtra by the BJP-led MahaYuti. Mr Pawar met the Prime Minister in his office in Parliament along with two farmers from Phaltan in western Maharashtra and presented him a box […]

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is meeting Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Mallikarjun Kharge to discuss the selection of the next Chairperson for the National Human Rights Commission, sources told NDTV Wednesday afternoon. Mr Gandhi and Mr Kharge are members – as Leaders of the Opposition in Parliament – of the committee that is led by […]

Netanyahu Trial LIVE | Israeli PM Netanyahu Faces Corruption Trial, Rejects ‘Ridiculous’ Charges Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is currently in the spotlight as he testifies in his corruption trial, marking a historic moment as he becomes the first sitting Israeli leader to take the stand as a criminal defendant. The trial involves serious allegations […]