India on Thursday hosted an event focused on the health of women, children, and adolescents on the sidelines of the ongoing 77th World Health Assembly in Geneva. Organized in collaboration with Norway, UNICEF, UNFPA, and the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (PMNCH), the event aimed to encourage investment and policy changes to benefit […]
JD (S) suspended MP Prajwal Revanna, who was arrested in the obscene video case at the Bengaluru Airport soon after he landed, is expected to be taken out for medical examination soon, following which he will be produced before the court. Revanna was brought to the CID office in Bengaluru after he landed at Kempegowda […]
Bruhat Soma, a seventh-grader, won the US National Spelling Bee champion title along with a Scripps Cup trophy and a USD 50,000 check after acing a 90-second spell-off against the second runner-up, 12-year-old Faizan Zaki from Texas. Bruhat spelled 29 words correctly in the tiebreaker, surpassing Zaki by nine, to win the title on Thursday […]
India has made a notable shift from the economic policies of 1991, when it exported gold and pledged it overseas to mitigate a looming financial crisis. The country has now shipped in a little over 100 tonnes of its gold reserves held in the UK. Sanjeev Sanyal, an economist and a member of the Economic […]
The Lok Sabha elections will come to a close tomorrow as the final phase of voting takes place in 57 constituencies across eight states and Union territories. This marks the end of the seven-phase elections that began on April 19. Voting will take place in 13 seats each in Uttar Pradesh and Punjab, nine seats […]
Israel’s Defense Minister Yoav Gallant has delivered a stern warning to Hezbollah, listing senior terrorist commanders recently eliminated by Israeli forces while accusing the Lebanese militant group’s chief Hassan Nasrallah of dragging the country into a “difficult reality.” During an operational assessment at the Israeli military’s Northern Command on Wednesday, Gallant presented images of slain […]
European stocks steadied on Thursday as bonds regained some ground after a sell-off the day before on bets that global interest rates would stay higher for longer due to stickier inflation readings. The dollar softened slightly as U.S. Treasury yields slippedback while commodity prices came under pressure on renewed expectations that the Federal Reserve is […]
Growth in India, which already is strong and surging, may become more broad-based across both on the consumer and business spending side, indicated Morgan Stanley. The global investment bank, in its latest report ‘2024 Global Economic Midyear Outlook’, attributed India’s firm growth to three megatrends -global offshoring, digitalization and energy transition. Morgan Stanley forecasts 6.8 […]
Defending champion Iga Swiatek came back from the brink to down Naomi Osaka in a French Open second-round blockbuster, saving a match point as she just avoided her earliest exit at Roland Garros, where the wild crowd came under fire on Wednesday. With fans starved of action on a day when persistent rainfall washed out […]
Indian teenage chess sensation R. Praggnanandhaa defeated world number one Magnus Carlsen in the classical format for the first time at the ongoing Norway Chess tournament on Wednesday. During round three, the 18-year-old battled the Norwegian star on his home turf and came out victorious to take the sole lead in the open section of […]
