Pakistan has suspended a proposed $1.5 billion agreement to supply weapons and fighter jets to Sudan after Saudi Arabia asked Islamabad to terminate the arrangement and said it would no longer finance the purchase, according to two Pakistani security sources and a diplomatic source.The development comes as Sudan remains gripped by a conflict between the…
California Mayor Eileen Wang charged with acting as illegal agent of China A Southern California mayor has agreed to plead guilty to acting as an illegal agent for the Chinese government. The mayor of Arcadia, Eileen Wang, was charged in April with one count of acting in the United States as an illegal agent of…
NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi will depart for a five-nation tour on Friday, beginning with the UAE, said govt in an official announcement. Modi will visit the UAE, Sweden and the Netherlands on his way to Norway for the India-Nordic summit that was postponed last year in the aftermath of the Pahalgam terrorist attack.Modi will…
Competition commission of India NEW DELHI: In a sweeping order examining pricing practices at private super-speciality hospitals in Delhi NCR, the Competition Commission of India (CCI) raised concerns over how admitted patients are routed towards in-house pharmacies, diagnostics and consumables, with the regulator observing that patients often become “locked-in” once admitted.The 32-page order relating to…
Gold prices climbed in futures trade on Friday as firm spot demand and fresh buying by speculators lifted sentiment in the bullion market.Retail gold rates across major Indian cities also recorded gains, with most markets witnessing an uptick in 22K, 24K and 18K prices.On the Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX), gold contracts for August delivery rose…
MEERUT: Sikandrabad Nagar Palika chairman and BJP leader Dr Pradeep Dixit announced a Rs 1 crore reward for beheading Trinamool Congress’s Lok Sabha MP Saayoni Ghosh over an old social media post related to a Shivling, triggering a political row in Bulandshahr district. In a video of the protest circulating on social media, Dixit can…
In a novel way of requesting SC for early hearing of a decade- and-half-old appeal, advocate Ejaz Maqbool shunned the blunt ‘justice delayed is justice denied’ argument to philosophically tell SC – “Aaj kal murde bhi puchte hain ki mera case ka kya hua? (These days even the dead ask for the status of their…
Ishan Kishan (Image: IPL/BCCI) Ishan Kishan appeared to take a cheeky dig at Punjab Kings after Sunrisers Hyderabad secured a commanding 33-run victory in IPL 2026. Kishan played a crucial knock of 55 off 32 balls, but the innings could have ended much earlier as Punjab Kings handed him three lifelines during the match.Over 7.1:…
NEW DELHI: Two Indian crew members aboard the Dutch-flagged cruise vessel MV Hondius are healthy and asymptomatic after a hantavirus scare led the ship to anchor off Spain’s Canary Islands, the Indian embassy in Madrid said Sunday.The vessel, carrying around 150 people, arrived in Spain amid international health monitoring linked to a reported hantavirus outbreak…
NEW DELHI: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Saturday arrested another alleged mastermind in the NEET-UG 2026 paper leak case, identifying her as the source of leaked Biology questions in the medical entrance examination.The accused, Manisha Gurunath Mandhare, a senior Botany teacher from Pune, Maharashtra, was arrested in Delhi after questioning by the agency….