The first IIT campus outside India will come up in Tanzania’s Zanzibar, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said on Thursday. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed for setting up of a campus of IIT Madras in Zanzibar, which is a Tanzanian archipelago off the coast of East Africa. The agreement was inked...
His address to a virtual Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit was his first to an international meeting since last month’s mutiny in Russia. Mr Putin backed trade accords between SCO nations in local currencies – seen as an attempt to blunt sanctions. The 2023 SCO summit is taking place virtually, under India’s leadership. Mr Putin used...
The Indian consulate in San Francisco was set on fire allegedly by Khalistani supporters in the early hours of Sunday. This is the second such attack on the consulate in five months; Khalistani supporters had vandalised the Indian Consulate in March. The incident was “strongly condemned” by the US. Diya TV, a local channel, shared a...
Irate rioters in France looted high-end stores such as Louis Vuitton, Zara, and Nike amid violent protests over the death of a 17-year-old boy Nahel by a policeman. Protestors looted items worth millions from high-end designer stores and also smashed the windows of an Apple store in the French capital Paris. A Twitter user...
Nahel Merzouk was shot by an officer during a traffic stop on Tuesday in the suburb of Nanterre – with the horrific incident caught on video. The police officer was since arrested and faces an investigation. His death sparked violent riots and reignited long simmering tensions between Paris’ police force and its youth living in the...
As it turns 4.30am in Paris, this is where we’ll wrap up the live blog for now. Here’s an overview of where things stand and the day’s major developments. The interior minister, Gérald Darmanin, said there had been at least 471 arrests in France on Friday and that 45,000 police, including special forces, would be deployed across...
Russian President Vladimir Putin engaged in a telephone conversation with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday and discussed a wide range of issues, including the recent Wagner Group mutiny, bilateral cooperation and the Ukraine conflict. Referring to the recent mutiny by Wagner mercenary group led by Yevgeny Prigozhin on June 24, “Narendra Modi expressed understanding...
A “potentially hazardous” asteroid, roughly the same length as the London Eye, is set to skim past Earth on Wednesday, according to a report by The Independent. NASA is tracking the movement of the huge rock, named 2013 WV44, which measures 160 metres in diameter. The US space agency’s Centre for Near-Earth Object Studies said that...
Russian mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin said on Monday that a one-day mutiny by his Wagner force had been intended not to overthrow Russia’s government but to register a protest over what he said was its ineffectual conduct of the war in Ukraine. In his first public comments since ending the mutiny late on Saturday, Prigozhin...
For more than a year, U.S. officials have quietly asked themselves a question they would not dare pose in public: Could Russia’s botched invasion of Ukraine eventually lead to the downfall of Russian President Vladimir Putin? For a few chaotic, head-snapping hours this weekend, the notion did not seem so far-fetched. But even with the apparent end to the...