The Special Forces (SF) are considered the cream of the Indian Armed Forces. Each of the three branches of the armed forces have their own SF units. The army has the Para (SF), the navy has the Marine Commandos (MARCOS) and the air force has the Garuds. The members of these Special units are trained…
Fact check: Did Chud The Builder post racist Facebook updates after courthouse shooting? Viral screenshot debunked (Image via Getty) Dalton “ChudTheBuilder” Eatherly is facing attempted murder charges after a shooting outside the Montgomery County Courthouse in Clarksville, Tennessee. Soon after his arrest, a screenshot claiming to show a Facebook post from the streamer started spreading…
NEW DELHI: Ordered something online, returned it, and still waiting for your money? Here is what the law says and what you can actually do about it.Refund disputes with online platforms like Amazon, Flipkart, or Myntra are more common than you think. The good news is that Indian law is firmly on your side and…
General Dan Caine and Donald Trump Former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) analyst Larry Johnson alleged that US President Donald Trump considered using the nuclear option against Iran, but backed down after Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Caine responded with a firm “no.”“Trump was seriously entertaining and asking about the use of…
TOI Correspondent from Washington: More than six decades after the CIA orchestrated the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion to overthrow Fidel Castro, the United States appears close to engineering a bloodless, warless transition in communist Cuba through economic strangulation and political pressure.In an extraordinary development, CIA Director John Ratcliffe openly travelled to Havana on Thursday…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday followed through on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “save fuel” appeal to the citizens amid the Middle East crisis. It ordered that all matters listed on miscellaneous days, including Mondays and Fridays, as well as on partial working days, will be heard exclusively through video conferencing until further orders….
NEW DELHI: Congress leader Shashi Tharoor will skip the oath taking ceremony of Kerala’s newly designated chief minister VD Satheesan on May 18. Announcing the decision on Friday on his X handle, Tharoor said that he will be in Boston, US to deliver the commencement address at the graduation ceremony of his alma mater, the…
A 31-year-old woman from Noida was found hanging at her husband’s house in Bhopal, news agency PTI reported. Twisha Sharma, the daughter-in-law of a retired judge was found hanging at city’s Katara Hills area on Tuesday night. BHOPAL: A 31-year-old woman from Noida was found hanging at her husband’s house in Bhopal, news agency PTI…
Germany’s Bundeswehr has quietly but firmly shut the door on Palantir—the American data analytics firm whose software runs targeting systems in Ukraine, is embedded across the US military, and just logged $1.63 billion in quarterly revenue. The reason Berlin is walking away has nothing to do with the technology. It never does.Vice Admiral Thomas Daum,…
Rupee slipped past the crucial 96-mark and hit a fresh all-time low of 96.14 against the US dollar in intraday trade on Friday, as soaring crude oil prices, escalating tensions in West Asia and persistent foreign capital outflows intensified pressure on the currency.At the interbank foreign exchange market, the rupee opened at 95.86 and weakened…