Miscellaneous

Bhubaneswar: Elon Musk fired Twitter’s top brass, including CEO Parag Agrawal, CFO Ned Segal, and Vijaya Gadde, head of legal policy, trust, and safety, after closing the $44 billion deal on…

Bhubaneswar: Rishi Sunak will be first Britain’s prime minister of colour, the first Hindu, and the youngest since William Pitt. He is the third Conservative prime minister in under two…

London: Indian-origin politician and Britain's former finance minister Rishi Sunak confirmed his bid to become the next Conservative leader and prime minister on Sunday, six weeks after Liz…

Bejing: China’s President Xi Jinping has secured a historic third term as the country’s leader, cementing his place as the nation’s most influential ruler since Mao Zedong. He was…

Kyiv: Multiple explosions have rocked central Kyiv, only a week after Russia launched strikes across Ukraine, the Associated Press reported on Monday. The fighting has intensified in…

Bhubaneswar: Buckingham Palace officials are reconsidering UK's Queen Consort's coronation using the Kohinoor diamond and it may now be cancelled with the ruling party of India warning that…

Washington: The first Hindu American to run for the White House in 2020, Tulsi Gabbard, on Tuesday announced her decision to quit the governing Democratic Party while calling it an “elitist…

Oslo: The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize to human rights advocate Ales Bialiatski from Belarus, the Russian human rights organisation Memorial and…

Stockholm: The 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to the French author Annie Ernaux “for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and…

Bangkok: At least 34 people, 22 among them children, were killed by an ex-policeman raiding a child care centre in Na Klang district of Nong Bua Lamphu, Bangkok Post quoted Deputy national…