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With the US Presidential election in its last stretch, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are leaving no stone turned to win voters. While Harris has been trying to play on her prosecutor past and how she will indict the ex president for crimes he’s being tried for, Trump has questioned the Vice-President’s racial identity. Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, has launched a racially insensitive attack on Kamala Harris by questioning whether she is “Indian or Black”. “I’ve known her a long time, indirectly, not directly very much, and she was always of Indian heritage, and she was only promoting Indian…
Paris Olympics 2024 Day 8 LIVE Updates: Shooter Manu Bhaker will be in action on Day 8 of the Paris Olympics 2024 and will aim to create history. After winning two bronze medals, Bhaker is on the cusp of clinching a gold medal the women’s 25m pistol final, which will make her the first-ever Indian athlete to win three medals in a single edition of the Olympics. Boxer Nishant Dev will also fight in men’s 71kg quarterfinal, in order to confirm a medal. Apart from this, Deepika Kumari and Bhajan Kaur will also be in action in the women’s individual…
The Rajya Sabha witnessed a fiery outburst earlier this over the use of ‘Jaya Amitabh Bachchan’ to introduce the Samajwadi Party MP. But after initially being irked over her identity being linked to her husband, Ms. Bachchan seems to have taken it in her stride and introduced herself in the same manner in the Rajya Sabha on Friday, eliciting a hearty laughter from Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar. The unexpected twist led Mr Dhankhar to burst into laughter, a reaction that was echoed by several other MPs, including Congress’ Jairam Ramesh and Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) Raghav Chadha. Jaya Bachchan: “Me, Jaya…
The United States will bolster its military presence in the Middle East, deploying additional warships and fighter jets to protect US personnel and defend Israel amid soaring tensions in the region, the Pentagon said Friday. The announcement comes after Iran and its regional allies vowed retaliation for the killings of a Hamas leader in Tehran and a Hezbollah commander in Beirut, fueling fears of a broader Middle East conflict. “The Department of Defense continues to take steps to mitigate the possibility of regional escalation by Iran or Iran’s partners and proxies,” deputy Pentagon Press Secretary Sabrina Singh said in a…
Tensions have escalated in the Middle East after Iran and the groups it supports vowed revenge for the killing of top Hamas and Hezbollah leaders. Israel killed Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr in Beirut on Tuesday, a move it said was a response to deadly rocket fire last week on the annexed Golan Heights. Hours later, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was killed in the Iranian capital, while Hezbollah commander Fouad Shukur died in a strike in Lebanon in quick succession last month. The killings of Hamas and Hezbollah leaders are the latest of several major incidents that have inflamed regional tensions…
Israel’s elite intelligence agency Mossad enlisted Iranian security agents to plant explosives in a building in Tehran where armed Palestinian group Hamas’s political leader Ismail Haniyeh was staying, The Telegraph reported. The initial plan was to assassinate Haniyeh in May during his visit to Tehran for the funeral of former Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi. The operation was aborted due to overwhelming crowds, which posed a major risk of failure, according to two Iranian officials who spoke to The Telegraph. Therefore, the operation had to be modified. Two agents, working under Mossad’s direction, placed explosive devices in three separate rooms of…
Shivam Dube and Arshdeep Singh were dismissed by Charith Asalanka off consecutive deliveries with India just one run away from victory as the first ODI encounter against Sri Lanka ended in a tie on Friday. Chasing a target of 231, India looked all set to clinch the victory with 1 run to win from 15 balls. On the third ball of the 48th over, Dube slammed Asalanka for a boundary and it prompted a huge celebration from Virat Kohli and head coach Gautam Gambhir in the dressing room. However, things quickly changed as Dube was dismissed LBW on the very next…
Jeff Bezos’s net worth shrank by $15.2 billion Friday, leading a wide-ranging slump that erased $134 billion from the fortunes of the 500 richest people in the world. Shares of Amazon.com Inc. slid 8.8% amid a broader selloff in the market, dropping Bezos’ net worth to $191.5 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. The one-day wipeout is his third-worst, trailing only April 4, 2019, when the Amazon co-founder’s wealth tumbled $36 billion following his divorce settlement, and April 29, 2022, when Amazon shares plunged 14%. The Nasdaq 100 Index fell 2.4%, dragging down the fortunes of other tech billionaires…
Angela Carini, the Italian boxer who lost to Algeria’s Imane Khelif in just 46 seconds at the Paris Olympics 2024, told Italian media on Friday that she felt sorry for her and even apologised for not shaking her hand amid the gender controversy. Khelif, who was disqualified by the International Boxing Association (IBA) in 2023 after failing to meet “eligibility criteria”, was called a ‘biological man’ by social media users and her win led a massive controversy. Carini broke down after her defeat to Khelif in a highly emotional interview but she said on Friday that she was angry because…
The Narendra Modi government has created 5.02 lakh railway jobs between 2014 and 2024, according to data presented by the Indian Railways in Parliament. Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnav pointed out that the UPA government (2004-2014) created 4.11 lakh jobs, fewer than the current government. This data was shared in response to questions from MP Fauzia Khan of the Sharad Pawar faction. Regarding job creation, Ashwini Vaishnav said that from August 2022 to October 2022, over 1.1 crore candidates took the RRB exams. Of these, 1,30,581 candidates were hired by the railways. The minister assured that there were no cases of…