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The appeal came as a delegation of Opposition MPs prepared to meet Wangchuk at Gurugram’s Medanta Hospital to persuade him to end his fast. NEW DELHI: The Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) on Wednesday appealed to climate activist Sonam Wangchuk to end his indefinite hunger strike, saying his health was too important while assuring him that…

A US Marine F-35 lands on a ship while deployed near the Persian Gulf. (Image credit: US Central Command) As the conflict involving Iran intensifies, the focus of the renewed US military campaign has shifted to the country’s southern coast, particularly the strategic port city of Bandar Abbas. Washington’s objective is to weaken Iran’s ability…

Image Used For Representational Purpose Only HYDERABAD: A woman cabin crew member of a private airline alleged that she was raped by a cab driver on July 20 while she was en route to the airport. Police registered a rape case and arrested the accused on Tuesday. He was sent to judicial remand. According to…

Suspected terrorists target police party in Anantnag, policeman injured NEW DELHI: A police personnel was killed after terrorists attacked a police party in Jammu and Kashmir‘s Anantnag town on Wednesday, officials told news agency PTI.The attack took place around 12.30 pm near Lal Chowk in Anantnag town, when the assailants fired at the police team,…

Jaishankar and Rubio in Manila External affairs minister S Jaishankar on Wednesday met US secretary of state Marco Rubio in Manila, with the two leaders holding wide-ranging discussions on trade, tariffs, energy, defence, critical minerals, artificial intelligence and regional security.The meeting took place on the sidelines of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) foreign…

Gelephu Mindfulness City, a high-tech, culturally anchored urban experiment. (Artist’s impression) Bhutan has long been the soft, poetic rebuke to a world defined by GDP figures and glitzy ‘smart’ development models.For decades it has marketed itself — and, more importantly, governed itself — around Gross National Happiness (GNH), a state philosophy that values well‑being, cultural…

Render of the GCAP in flight. (Image credit: GCAP consortium) Canada, has announced that it is entering the sixth-generation Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP) initiated by UK‑Japan‑Italy, as an observer. This even as the Royal Canadian Air Force has ordered 88 F-35As from the United States, in a bid to replace each and every older…

NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to take suo motu cognisance of the students’ protest at Jantar Mantar, refusing to entertain a plea alleging “police brutality” during the demonstration.A bench led by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant declined the request, saying, “We do not have time to watch videos.”An advocate urged the court…

Google parent company Alphabet has more than quadrupled its office footprint in Miami this year, following a series of massive residential real estate purchases across South Florida by co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, a report has said. The search giant reportedly signed a new commercial lease to expand its regional footprint to roughly 45,000…

BJP calls Rahul’s march to PM residence ‘irresponsible conduct’ NEW DELHI: A day after Rahul Gandhi’s march to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s residence ended in a confrontation with police, the BJP mounted a sharp political counteroffensive on Wednesday, accusing Lok Sabha leader of opposition of disregarding the dignity of the Prime Minister’s residence and announcing…