NEW DELHI: The Centre has widened its scrutiny of messaging platforms with username-based communication, with the ministry of electronics and information technology (MeitY) issuing notices to Telegram and Signal days after directing WhatsApp to justify its proposed username feature and pause its rollout in India.According to sources quoted by PTI, the notices to Telegram and…
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and his coalition government on Thursday presented a wide-ranging reform package aimed at reviving Germany’s sluggish economy, introducing tax cuts, pension changes, stricter sick leave rules and steps to reduce bureaucracy, according to government statements and Reuters reporting.According to AP, Merz said the reforms were designed to reposition Europe’s largest economy…
Guest list of who would be attending Ayatollah Khamenei’s funeral Iran begins a week of funeral ceremonies on Friday for former Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in a joint US–Israeli strike in February. The ceremonies will move from Tehran to Qom, then to Najaf in Iraq, before concluding with burial in his…
Aliya Mohammad Sajid Chandiwala (in picture) came into contact with electricity that had leaked into the waterlogged area near the building’s iron gate. THANE: A 17-year-old girl died after suffering electric shock in a waterlogged area outside her residential building in Mumbra on Wednesday night. Police have registered an FIR against officials of Torrent Power…
Delhi woke up to thunder and rain and many breathed a sigh of relief after brutal June heat. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) issued warning as heavy showers, gusty winds, and thunderstorms swept through the city, marking what looks like the tail end of an intense heatwave. This shift from scorching heat to monsoon rain…
NEW DELHI: Air India is learnt to have reduced the fuel surcharge levied on its long hauls to North America, UK, Europe and Australia from this month, thanks to crude peice falling due to an iffy US-Iran ceasefire. AI’s highest surcharge was $280 on North America and Australia routes, which leading travel agents say, has…
A 60-year-old man tragically lost his life after falling into an open manhole during drain maintenance in Sakinaka. MUMBAI: BMC on Thursday suspended four officials pending an inquiry after a 60-year-old man was swept to his death after falling into an open manhole during drain maintenance work in Sakinaka, an incident that triggered widespread outrage…
Drone technology is transforming how land ownership is recorded in rural India. Under the Centre’s SVAMITVA scheme, drones are mapping residential properties across villages to help issue legal ownership cards and modernise land records. Launched in April 2020, under the ministry of panchayati raj, the Survey of Villages and Mapping with Improvised Technology in Village…
Trump puts Nato on blast over alleged US spending to protect them US President Donald Trump took to Truth Social to lambaste Nato over what he claimed was US spending to protect them.His post read, ‘The United States spends more money on Nato than any other country, by far, to protect them, without getting any…
Look up at a cloud and it seems like nothing at all, just a soft white puff drifting by. But an average cloud weighs close to a million pounds, which is about the same as two fully loaded Boeing 747 planes hanging in the sky. Storm clouds are even heavier, sometimes running into millions of…