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Suzanne Karkaba and her father Ali were both civil defence rescuers whose job was to save the injured and recover the dead in Lebanon’s war. When an Israeli strike killed him on Thursday and it was his turn to be rescued, there wasn’t much left. She had to identify him by his fingers. Karkaba then […]

BPSC TRE 3.0 Result: The Bihar Public Service Commission (BPSC) has announced the result of the Teacher Recruitment Examination (TRE) 3.0. Those who appeared for the exam, held in July, can now check their results on the official website. Out of the 2.75 lakh candidates who participated, a total of 38,900 have successfully cleared the […]

Billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance has asked the telecom regulator to review the potential reach of Elon Musk’s Starlink and Amazon’s Kuiper before awarding satellite spectrum amid concerns local players could suffer, a letter showed on Friday. Reliance’s letter, which is not public, is Mr Ambani’s last-ditch effort in an ongoing face-off with Mr Musk over […]

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said in an interview published Friday that Donald Trump privately held “more nuanced” positions on Ukraine, days after he spoke with the president-elect of the United States by phone. Trump’s reelection in last week’s US presidential vote has raised concerns he could withdraw Washington’s significant support for Ukraine once back in […]

Senegalese-American pop star Akon, who is in Shillong to perform at the Cherry Blossom Festival 2024, has said he thinks of India as his “second home” and can never find himself in a situation “far away” from the country. Speaking exclusively to NDTV on Friday, the ‘Lonely‘ and ‘Chammak Challo‘ star said, “I have always […]

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 […]