Actor Govinda is returning to the big screen with upcoming films ‘Roopa’ and ‘Duniyadari’. He will be seen opposite newcomer Rani Swarnkar in these projects. Govinda is also producing these films, which are aimed at young audiences. He spoke about his personal and professional life at the press conference. The actor was last seen in…
Pro-Khalistan group issues bomb threat ahead of PM Narendra Modi’s Haryana visit CHANDIGARH: Security agencies have been placed on high alert after an email, purportedly sent by a pro-Khalistan group, threatened to target Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s rally in Haryana’s Jind on Friday.The email also claimed that bomb blasts would be carried out at schools,…
A Ukrainian soldier prepares to launch a counter-UAS drone. (Ukrainian defence ministry) Drones have become a pervasive and prominent feature of the modern battlefield. Countries are increasingly investing in both drones and in the means to counter them. A prominent reason for the ubiquity of these systems is their relatively low cost, as compared to…
NEW DELHI: A Delhi court on Monday convicted former Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) councillor Tahir Hussain and several others in the 2020 murder of Intelligence Bureau (IB) officer Ankit Sharma during the North East Delhi riots.The Karkardooma court convicted Hussain of murder and other offences related to rioting. However, it dropped the charge of criminal…
Omar Abdullah calls BJP’s defamation notice ‘great honour’ NEW DELHI: Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah on Monday reacted to the Bharatiya Janata Party’s defamation notice against him over his claim that the safforn party was trying to poach National Conference MLAs from the Jammu region.Calling the notice a “love letter”, Abdullah said that…
EU finds Meta’s Instagram, Facebook design ‘addictive’; company faces fine up to 6% of global revenue Brussels has run out of patience with the scroll. The European Commission said on July 10 that it has preliminarily found Meta in breach of the Digital Services Act, concluding that Instagram and Facebook were built to keep people…
IED blast in Nagaland: 1 Assam Rifles personnel killed, four injureD (Representative image) One Assam Rifles personnel was killed and four others were injured in a suspected improvised explosive device (IED) blast near Sukhovi in Nagaland on Monday, officials said.According to the Defence Public Relations Officer (PRO), Kohima, the blast targeted Assam Rifles vehicles.“A suspected…
Su-30 MKI and J-16 fighter jets India’s Su-30MKI and China’s J-16 may fly under different flags today, but both trace their origins to the same Soviet-era Flanker family. Descended from the legendary Su-27, the two heavyweight fighters have evolved into the backbone of the Indian Air Force (IAF) and the People’s Liberation Army Air Force…
NEW DELHI: A district consumer commission in Himachal Pradesh has held RedBus and a bus operator jointly responsible for cancelling a passenger’s confirmed ticket just 17 minutes before departure, leaving him stranded late at night and forcing him to book an emergency flight to Delhi. The commission, in its July 4th order, ruled that online…
Of the H-1B petitions approved in fiscal 2025 (fiscal ended Sept 30), nearly 70 percent were for beneficiaries whose country of birth was India. The second most common country of birth was China, accounting for approximately 12 percent of all beneficiaries. Top source countries for H-1B visas (including extensions) 1 India 2,83,772 69.9% 2 China…
