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NEW DELHI: India on Friday strongly rejected Peter Navarro’s “Brahmins profiting from Russian crude” remark, calling the statement inaccurate and misleading. Navarro, trade advisor to US President Donald Trump, made an obtuse remark claiming that New Delhi has been “indirectly funding” Russia’s war in Ukraine through discounted oil purchases, and that Brahmins are “profiting at…

NEW DELHI: Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) Anil Chauhan explained why India chose to go beyond drones and loitering munitions during Operation Sindoor, saying lethal action against Pakistan-bred terrorists required air power.CDS Chauhan said precision strikes had been carried out against terrorists holed up in Pakistan even after the attacks in Uri and Pulwama, and…

NEW DELHI: US President Donald Trump on Friday made a cryptic post expressing thinning hopes of a trade deal with India. Posting a picture of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin, he said, it seemed, that the US had “lost India and Russia to deepest, darkest China”.“Looks like…

NEW DELHI: An Air India Express’ Delhi-Indore flight on Friday had a mid-air scare after it suffered an engine fault. The pilot issued a ‘PAN-PAN’ alert to signal a non-critical emergency, but the aircraft eventually landed safely at the airport with a 20-minute delay.“After receiving information about a technical fault in one of the engines…

Russian president Vladimir Putin said on Friday that any Western forces sent to Ukraine would be a “legitimate” target for Moscow’s military, following Kyiv’s allies’ pledge to deploy troops if a peace deal is reached.“If some troops appear there, especially now during the fighting, we proceed from the premise that they will be legitimate targets,”…

NEW DELHI: The Indian Army on Thursday carried out a swift rescue operation to evacuate two South Korean nationals stranded at 17,000 feet in Ladakh’s Kongmarula Pass.According to the Army’s Fire and Fury Corps, the request for a Casualty Evacuation (Casevac) mission was received at around 8:05pm on September 4. Within 15 minutes, helicopters were…

NEW DELHI: Maharashtra transport minister Pratap Sarnaik on Friday received the first delivery of Tesla’s Model Y, receiving the electric vehicle from the company’s newly launched showroom in Mumbai’s Bandra Kurla Complex.Pratap Sarnaik, who booked the Model Y a day after the American automaker opened its first showroom in India in July, said he plans…

BAREILLY: A bizarre incident has surfaced from Pilibhit where a husband-wife quarrel over samosas escalated into violence, said police.Shivam Kumar, a resident of Anandpur, lives with his wife Sangeeta. On August 30, Sangeeta had asked him to bring samosas, but he returned home empty-handed and cited that he forget, which led to an argument between…

NEW DELHI: Security has been tightened across Mumbai after the city’s Traffic Police received a threat message on their official WhatsApp number, claiming that multiple terror attacks were being planned.According to police, the message stated that 34 vehicles in the city had been fitted with “human bombs” and warned that the blasts would “shake entire…

Larry Ellison, co-founder of Oracle and one of the richest men in the world, is almost as famous for his vast real estate empire as he is for building one of Silicon Valley’s most influential companies. According to Forbes, Ellison’s net worth surpasses $270 billion, and he has funneled more than $1 billion into acquiring…