Bengaluru: Seeking to put an end to the raging leadership row involving them, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and his deputy D K Shivakumar on Saturday put up a united front, asserting there were no differences between them and that they would be united in the future as well. At a joint press conference addressed by…
Chennai: Rain triggered by Cyclone Ditwah, which entered the open sea inching towards Tamil Nadu coast, lashed the coastal areas and the Cauvery delta districts on Saturday. A tourist van got stranded in an area marooned near a canal in Ramanthapuram district. The occupants, however, had a providential escape as they managed to step out…
New Delhi: India on Saturday sent a contingent of 80 NDRF rescuers and specialised search dogs to Sri Lanka for undertaking relief and rescue operations in the aftermath of unprecedented floods in the neighbouring country following Cyclone Ditwah, an official spokesperson said. The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) personnel have been divided into two teams….
Panaji: Superstar Rajinikanth on Friday said his five-decade journey in cinema still feels like “10 to 15 years” and that he would choose acting in “every lifetime”. The 74-year-old actor, counted among the most influential figures in the country, was felicitated for completing 50 years in Indian cinema at the closing ceremony of the 56th…
Chennai: Rain triggered by Cyclone Ditwah, which entered the open sea inching towards Tamil Nadu coast, lashed the coastal areas and the Cauvery delta districts on Saturday. A tourist van got stranded in an area marooned near a canal in Ramanthapuram district. The occupants, however, had a providential escape as they managed to step out through…
New Delhi: IndiGo, Air India, and Air India Express flight operations will see disruptions as they work on fixing a potential issue related to flight controls in their A320 family planes, and 200-250 aircraft will be impacted in the country, according to sources. Airbus on Friday said intense solar radiation might corrupt data critical to…
U Lakshman Rao Samuel P. Huntington’s 1993 thesis, The Clash of Civilizations, was once dismissed as alarmist, reductive, even Islamophobic. Three decades later, a spate of global events has resurrected his core argument in a new avatar—what some commentators now call “Clash of Civilizations 2.0.” This updated version isn’t about ideological blocs or Cold War…
The first thing I saw on my morning Facebook dive was a beaming Kunal Kapoor wishing himself a happy birthday from a lamp post in Mumbai. A celebrity garlanding himself on public property is not new in this country; what was new is that Kapoor did it knowingly, deliberately, and, to his credit, hilariously. Hoardings…
Johannesburg: President Cyril Ramaphosa said his US counterpart Donald Trump’s announcement that South Africa will not be invited to the G20 during America’s presidency was “regrettable”. Trump has continued with “punitive measures” despite efforts and numerous attempts by President Ramaphosa and his administration to reset the diplomatic relationship with the US, the presidency said in…
Moscow: The Russian lower house of Parliament is set to ratify a crucial military pact with India ahead of President Vladimir Putin’s state visit on December 4-5 for the 23rd bilateral summit, according to reports. Signed on February 18, 2025, in Moscow by the Indian Ambassador Vinay Kumar and erstwhile Deputy Defence Minister Alexander Fomin,…
