A Ukrainian drone company, SkyFall, demonstrates StarGate, an aerial medical evacuation drone designed to carry wounded soldiers from front-line positions, potentially saving lives where conventional rescue vehicles cannot reach NEW YORK/WASHINGTON: The order to limit a satellite system used by Ukraine for battlefield communications and drone operations came from inside the White House, according to…
NEW DELHI: Hitting out at Congress after its Kerala unit sought Chief Justice Surya Kant’s resignation, BJP Monday said it is a confirmation of its charge that the party is out to destroy constitutional institutions.Reacting the CJI’ss comments to the media over the Delhi protests that law and order is not his domain, Kerala Congress…
Security forces Thursday launched a massive cordon and search operation in Manipur‘s Noney, a day after three militants were killed in a gunfight between rival Naga outfits. Over 500 personnel from Manipur Police, CRPF’s CoBRA unit and Assam Rifles began the operation in Nungba and Kekru Naga areas. Elsewhere in state, thousands of Nagas rallied…
Officials were taken aback by the Chief Economic Adviser’s comments regarding the availability of E10 fuel NEW DELHI: An opinion piece by chief economic adviser (CEA) V Anantha Nageswaran on ethanol blending has rekindled the debate whether govt should look at making E10 (10% ethanol blended petrol) available for older vehicles manufactured before April 2023.Officials,…
Long before Shah Rukh Khan became one of Bollywood’s biggest stars, he was simply the charming schoolboy known for winning over classmates and teachers at St. Columba’s School in Delhi. Singer Palash Sen, who was his senior by a year, recently looked back at their school days and recalled a friendship that he described as…
Shashi Tharoor says govt must keep Brics non-West and not let it appear anti-West. NEW DELHI: Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Friday cautioned that the Brics summit hosted by India should not appear to be an anti-West platform, as that would not be in sync with the country’s national interests.Tharoor, who served as a diplomat…
Aanand Shukla, of Texas, jailed for 5 years in tax fraud case. A Texas man of Indian origin has been sentenced to five years in prison for running a scheme that helped clients avoid paying taxes and facilitating the concealment of more than $27 million in income from the US government.Aanand Shukla was sentenced to…
Retired professor has been arrested for blocking a delivery robot in Philadelphia. A 78-year-old retired professor in Philadelphia has vowed to continue protesting delivery robots after she was arrested for repeatedly standing in their way, arguing that her actions were an exercise of free speech and a protest against technology taking over public spaces.Carolyn Marvin,…
‘Brahmastra’ actor Saurav Gurjar in judicial custody after woman files complaint over marriage promise: Report Mahabharat actor and wrestler Saurav Gurjar is in judicial custody after a woman filed a complaint against him in Mumbai. She has alleged that he deceived and harassed her after promising to marry her. Gachibowli police have registered a case…
File photo: UK’s RAF Fairford base Iran is seeking to expand its attacks in Britain to include military installations, with the suspected plot against the US-run RAF Fairford air base in September being “not unique”, MI5 chief Ken McCallum said on Tuesday.Speaking in his annual assessment of threats to the UK, the head of Britain’s…
