US President Joe Biden departed on Sunday on a three-nation trip that will be dominated by a NATO summit in Lithuania aimed at showing solidarity with Ukraine in its fight against Russia while not yet accepting Kyiv as a member of the alliance. Biden’s first stop will be in London, where he will meet British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak at...
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Dubai population increased by 50k in the first 6 months of 23
For the first time ever, Dubai’s total population has surpassed 3.6 million. According to fresh data from the Dubai Statistics Centre, the population of Dubai sat at 3.55 million people at the end of 2022. Fast forward 6 months, and the population of the city has increased by an impressive 50,000 in just six months. That’s a growth of around 1.5...
Issue not freedom of expression’, India counters Trudeau on Khalistani elements
India on Thursday sought firm action from all countries where pro-Khalistan groups are conducting campaigns to incite violence against Indian diplomats and missions, and said freedom of expression shouldn’t be misused to propagate separatism and legitimise terrorism. India has slammed Pakistan for its “politically-motivated” and “venomous” remarks that referred to Jammu and Kashmir during a Security Council debate on children...
Elon Musk vs Mark Zuckerberg: Instagram unveils Threads app, a potential rival to Twitter
Instagram, owned by Meta Platforms Inc., has officially introduced Threads, a new application explicitly developed to directly compete with Twitter. This launch poses the most significant challenge to Elon Musk’s ailing social media platform to date. As reported by Bloomberg, Threads, the newly unveiled app by Instagram, offers users the ability to share text, links, and engage in conversations by replying to or...
First IIT campus outside India to come up in Tanzania’s Zanzibar
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 on Wednesday in presence of...
SCO summit: Putin says sanctions making Russia stronger
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 platform to send a...
Indian consulate in San Francisco set on fire allegedly by Khalistani supporters
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 video of the arson which...
Rioters loot LV, Zara, Nike Apple stores in Paris
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 wrote: “Looting the Apple Store...
Protesters in paris ram car into mayor s home in assassination attempt
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 housing projects, and ethnic minorities...
100 arrested in France on 4th night of unrest as reinforcements sent to Marseille
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 the country as violence flared...
PM Modi, Putin Discuss India-Russia Ties, Wagner Mutiny And Ukraine Conflict on Phone Call
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 and support for the decisive...
Huge 91-Mtr-Wide Asteroid Heading Towards Earth, Warns NASA
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 the asteroid will pass within...