Uruguay players (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo) NEW DELHI: Two-time world champions Uruguay national football team endured a humiliating end to their 2026 FIFA World Cup campaign after crashing out in the group stage without registering a single victory. Uruguay finished bottom of Group H following a 0-1 defeat to Spain national football team, having earlier drawn…
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ ex-wife, MacKenzie Scott, has failed to impress podcaster and former adviser to the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), Katie Miller. She criticised Scott’s charitable giving in a post on X, claiming that billions of dollars donated by the billionaire author and philanthropist have largely gone to organisations promoting progressive causes.In her…
Iranian President Pezeshkian says USD 6 billion frozen in Qatar to be released Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Monday that $6 billion in frozen Iranian assets held in Qatar would be released, even as negotiations with the United States faced fresh uncertainty following attacks across the Persian Gulf over the weekend.According to the Associated…
Memory giants sued again as RAM prices hit record highs The three companies that make nearly all the world’s memory chips are now facing a class action lawsuit in the US, accused of quietly choking off DRAM supply to drive prices through the roof. Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron—the trio behind almost the entire global…
Silicon Valley’s ongoing race for artificial intelligence (AI) dominance has hit a massive bottleneck: Computing power. Even tech giants like Google and Facebook-parent company Meta are also feeling its heat. A report has claimed that Google has officially placed strict limits on Meta’s access to its premier Gemini AI models after Mark Zuckerberg’s social media…
Five killed in shooting in the northern German town of Stade. At least five people were killed in a shooting in the northern German town of Stade, a police spokesperson told news agency Reuters on Monday.A suspect was arrested, German news agency dpa reported, citing police.Police said they were conducting a major operation in an…
Axis Bank on Monday announced that its chief financial officer, Puneet Sharma, has resigned. Sharma, who has led the bank’s finance function since March 2020, stepped down on Sunday, June 28, and will remain with the lender until August 31. During his time at the private sector lender, Sharma served as the group head and…
More than 2,600 rescue workers from around the world have arrived with search dogs and heavy machinery A powerful aftershock of 4.6 magnitude shook Caracas and the neighbouring state of La Guaira on Monday morning, nearly five days after the twin earthquakes that devastated northern Venezuela and killed at least 1,450 people.AFP journalists reported that…
US Navy’s fifth-generation F-35 fighter aircraft refuels from a tanker. (Image credit: USAF) As the geo-political situation in the region remains tense, with both China and Pakistan modernising their air forces. The Chinese have inducted fifth generation air craft and are publicly testing two separate sixth-generation aircraft. This at a time when the Pakistanis are…
PM Modi hands over PS Lespwar, fast patrol vessel, to Seychelles. (Image credit: MEA) Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent visit to Seychelles marked a notable expansion of India’s defence diplomacy in the Indian Ocean region.At a ceremony at the Seychelles Coast Guard base, PM Modi handed over the fast patrol vessel Lespwar — which means…