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Actor and voice artist Daveigh Chase, best known for voicing Lilo in Lilo & Stitch and playing the terrifying Samara Morgan in The Ring, has died at the age of 35.According to TMZ, Chase died on Tuesday after suffering from meningitis and a blood infection that led to septic complications and organ failure. Her boyfriend,…

JAMMU: J&K Police Wednesday claimed to have busted a major narco-terror nexus with links extending to Punjab and across the border, and arrested 20, including three alleged kingpins. The drug supply chain had been feeding narcotics into the Union Territory, SSP Jammu Joginder Singh said.Surajdeep Singh, Harpreet Singh alias Raju, and Jaspreet, who were arrested…

Kevin Warsh (AP file photo) US Federal Reserve chairman Kevin Warsh-led FOMC on Wednesday kept the key interest rate unchanged in the 3.5% to 3.75% range. This is Kevin Warsh’s first policy review after taking over from Jerome Powell as US Federal Reserve chair.“The Committee decided to maintain the target range for the federal funds…

Trump says US strike on Iranian girls school was not intentional US President Donald Trump said that the bombing of a girls’ school in Iran that killed 168 children was not a deliberate attack, saying an investigation into the incident remains under way. Speaking on the sidelines of the G7 summit in Evian-les-Bains, France, on…

I traverse the sun-baked Balochistan desert, my motorbike laden with fuel, a silhouette against the immense, arid expanse. Motorbike riders in Pakistan’s Balochistan province are risking extreme heat, armed conflict and deadly accidents to transport smuggled Iranian fuel across the country, as higher oil prices linked to the recent Iran-Israel conflict boost demand for cheaper…

NEW DELHI: The Centre has raised the ceiling prices of BCG, Measles and Measles-Rubella (MR) vaccines by about 21% after reconsidering an earlier pricing order following a review application by Serum Institute of India.In a gazette notification, the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) increased the ceiling price of BCG vaccine from ₹8.20 to ₹9.89 per…

Pakistan hostages held by Somalian pirates Ten Pakistani crew members held hostage by Somali pirates aboard the hijacked oil tanker MT Honour 25 have appealed for urgent government intervention through a newly surfaced video, saying they have been in captivity for 57 days, face severe shortages of food and water, and need immediate help to…

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff shares selfie with PM Narendra Modi (Source: X/Benioff) Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has shared an exclusive selfie with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday (June 17), following a high-level discussion on artificial intelligence (AI) technology which currently dominates the global political agenda. Taking to social media platform X (formerly Twitter), Benioff…

A US Air Force B-52H Stratofortress crashed shortly after takeoff at Edwards Air Force Base in California’s Mojave Desert on Monday, killing all eight personnel on board, officials confirmed.The crash has attracted added attention given the B-52 Stratofortress’s status as one of the most enduring symbols of American air power.The bomber has played a central…

TOI correspondent from Washington: Eight years after the Trump administration renamed the US Pacific Command as the Indo-Pacific Command to signal New Delhi’s growing strategic importance in US efforts to contain China, the Pentagon has quietly reversed course.In a move laden with symbolism and timing, the department of war on Tuesday announced that INDOPACOM would…