Tens of thousands of people demonstrated in Jerusalem on Sunday against Benjamin Netanyahu’s government and against exemptions granted to ultra-Orthodox Jewish men from military service, in scenes reminiscent of mass street protests last year. Protest groups, including some that led the mass demonstrations that rocked Israel in 2023, organised the rally outside parliament, the Knesset, calling for a new election...
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Trump barred from attacking jurors and witnesses in hush money case as judge issues gag order
A New York judge Tuesday issued a gag order barring Donald Trump from commenting publicly about witnesses, prosecutors, court staff and jurors in his upcoming hush-money criminal trial, citing the former president’s history of “threatening, inflammatory, denigrating” remarks about people involved in his legal cases. Judge Juan M. Merchan’s decision, echoing a gag order in Trump’s Washington, D.C., election interference criminal case, came...
Trump In Court, Biden In Kitchen: The Unique Campaigns For 2024 US Elections
Though the candidates are the same as last time, the 2024 US presidential election promises to be unique in other ways — pitting two men facing challenges unprecedented in the 235-year history of US democracy. Joe Biden was already fending off misgivings about his advanced years in 2020, but America’s oldest-ever president will have four more candles on his birthday...
Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore collapses after being struck by cargo ship
The Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore collapsed early Tuesday after a support column was hit by a large container ship that had lost power, sending vehicles and people into the Patapsco River, authorities said. Six people remain missing and are presumed dead, Rear Admiral Shannon Gilreath of the U.S. Coast Guard said at a news conference Tuesday evening. Two...
India supports Philippines’ sovereignty, says EAM S Jaishankar, sparking response from China
India supports the Philippines’ sovereignty, said External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar in Manila, in comments that sparked a response from the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which called on “third countries” not to “interfere”. Mr. Jaishankar’s visit to Manila on Tuesday, where he met Philippines President Bongbong Marcos and Foreign Minister Enrique Manalo, is part of a three-nation five-day tour to...
Trump’s Net Worth Hits $6.5 Billion, Making Him One Of World’s Richest People
Donald Trump’s business empire was supposed to be in peril like never before on Monday. Instead, it turned into the single-greatest day on record for the former president’s wealth. Facing a deadline to post a bond of more than $500 million in a New York fraud lawsuit, a state appeals court tossed him a lifeline, slashing the amount he’d have...
Jaishankar’s Singapore visit presented opportunity to deepen strategic partnership: MEA
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar’s visit to Singapore and his meetings with the country’s top leadership presented an opportunity to take stock of the progress in several areas of cooperation and further deepen the bilateral Strategic Partnership, an official statement said. Jaishankar was in Singapore from March 23 to 25 during which he called on Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien...
60 Killed, Over 100 Injured In Moscow Concert Hall Attack
More than 60 people were killed and about 115 others injured after gunmen opened fire at them in a Moscow concert hall, Russian authorities said, raising an earlier count of 40. Russia’s Health Minister Mikhail Murashko said 115 people were hospitalised, including five children, one of whom was in grave condition. Of the 110 adult patients, 60 were in serious...
Thank you for warm welcome, may India-Bhutan friendship keep scaling new heights: PM Modi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said he was grateful to the Bhutanese people for according to him a “memorable welcome” to their beautiful country and hoped that India-Bhutan friendship “keep scaling new heights”. His comments came hours after he arrived in the Himalayan nation on a two-day State visit. His visit seeks to further cement India’s unique and enduring...
Donald Trump, Joe Biden win Ohio primaries of their parties
Donald Trump has won the Republican presidential primary in Ohio, days after winningthe primary for the third consecutive time. In addition to Ohio’s contest, Trump is likely to comfortably pull off GOP primaries in Arizona, Florida, Illinois, and Kansas. President Joe Biden also won the Ohio Democratic primary and is expected to do thesame in all those states except Florida,...
Putin, Zelenskyy Invite PM Modi After Elections: “See India As Peacemaker”
Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke to Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy hours after speaking to Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Prime Minister’s conversation with the two leaders comes in the backdrop of Putin’s reelection as President and no sign of a de-escalation in the Russia-Ukraine war. Sources told NDTV that the two leaders said they see India as a peacemaker. Sources said...
“100% Of Gaza Population At Severe Levels Of Acute Food Insecurity”: Blinken
The entire population of Gaza is experiencing “severe levels of acute food insecurity”, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Tuesday, underscoring the urgency for increasing the delivery of humanitarian aid into the Palestinian territory. “According to the most respected measure of these things, 100 percent of the population in Gaza is at severe levels of acute food insecurity. That’s...