New York: Eileen Laubacher, a former US Navy rear admiral who served as a defence attaché at the embassy in New Delhi, has defeated a fiery Republican hardliner in the midterm elections to Congress that have turned into a Democratic tsunami. Democrat Laubacher was declared the winner Friday (local time) from a House of Representatives constituency in...

Hong Kong: Well before reports emerged that former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was having an affair with a suspected Chinese spy, the advanced chips made by his company were at the centre of the race between the US and China to dominate artificial intelligence. The scandal now threatens to intensify that rivalry. As President Donald Trump prepares...

Quetta: Security posts of the Pakistani forces in Balochistan's Nushki were reportedly targeted with rockets and gunfire, a day after a suicide bombing and armed assault on a military camp in Mastung, local media reported. Reports indicate that military posts near the football stadium and elsewhere in Nushki came under rocket and other weapons attacks Friday. Heavy...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi Saturday said his government remains committed to ensuring quality education, safety and holistic development of every child in the state. In a message on Children's Day, which commemorates the birth anniversary of Jawaharlal Nehru, Majhi said children are the future of the country. Taking to social media, the chief minister...

New Delhi: Tamil Nadu Congress President, Manickam Tagore, Saturday strongly criticised Karnataka Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar over his remarks on the Cauvery water dispute, accusing him of continuing to adopt a "stubborn stance" that goes against the interests of Tamil Nadu farmers and is "utterly unacceptable". The reaction came a day after Chief Minister Shivakumar, in the...

Jammu: A massive anti-terrorist operation was launched in J&K’s Kishtwar district Saturday in the wake of the killings of two special police officers (SPOs) by terrorists, officials said. Officials said the joint operation, comprising personnel from the Army, Jammu and Kashmir Police, and Village Defence Guards (VDGs), is underway in the dense forest areas of Kishtwar to...

Koraput: Five armed miscreants allegedly held a family hostage for nearly four hours and decamped with Rs 25 lakh in cash and more than 400 grams of gold ornaments from a house in Jeypore town of Odisha’s Koraput district Friday night. The robbery took place at the residence of Satyanarayan Dalei in Lingaraj Nagar. According to reports,...

Mathura: Panic gripped passengers after a moving bus suddenly caught fire on the Raya Cut Bridge of the Yamuna Expressway in Uttar Pradesh's Mathura district during the early hours of Saturday. Around 40 passengers were travelling in the bus when the incident occurred. Fortunately, all of them were evacuated safely on time, and no casualties have been...

New Delhi: The Chamber of Trade and Industry (CTI) has written to Union Civil Aviation Minister, Ram Mohan Naidu Kinjarapu, urging the government to take immediate steps to regulate rising airfares and put a stop to what it described as arbitrary pricing by airlines. The trade body has demanded that the government introduce an upper cap on...

Piyush Goyal to visit Egypt to strengthen bilateral trade and investment ties New Delhi: Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal is set to undertake an official visit to Egypt from November 15-16, with an aim to further strengthen the longstanding India-Egypt partnership, the Commerce Ministry said Saturday. The visit would give particular emphasis to expanding bilateral trade,...