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9 May, 2025 | 3:32 PM

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India Stands United

CJI recommends impeachment of Justice Varma

LG manufacturing unit to come up in Tirupati

CM Revanth Reddy launches state’s first HYDRAA police station

Over 100 contestants descend in Hyd for Miss World pageant

HC seeks counters in PIL against pvt Jr colleges

Karachi Bakery ‘100 per cent Indian brand’, say promoters

TDP MP’s sister among six killed in chopper crash

GHMC to survey on weak and old buildings

Red Cross & Thalassemia Day commemorated in Raj Bhavan

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US strikes ‘very big’ trade deal with UK

09-05-2025

US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that the United States had reached a breakthrough trade deal with Britain. "It's a very big deal right now," Trump told reporters at the White House, adding there would be adjustments made to the pact going forward.

UK MP Priti Patel backs India’s right to defend

09-05-2025

UK Conservative Party MP Priti Patel extended support to India, saying that it has the right to take reasonable and proportionate steps to defend itself, and to dismantle the vile terrorist infrastructure that has caused death and continues to threaten it. She slammed Pakistan for threatening India and Western interests by fostering terrorism.

FBI director Kash Patel says bureau needs more funding

09-05-2025

FBI Director Kash Patel broke with the Trump administration on Wednesday over a budget proposal that would dramatically slash funding for the bureau, telling lawmakers, "We need more than what has been proposed."

Russia and China should be ‘friends of steel’: Xi to Putin

09-05-2025

Chinese President Xi Jinping told Russia's Vladimir Putin on Thursday their two countries should be "friends of steel", as they pledged to boost cooperation to a new level at a time of heightened confrontation with the West. At talks in the Kremlin, the two leaders cast themselves as defenders of a new world order no longer dominated by the United States.

The curious case of ‘Missing Melania’

09-05-2025

The lights never seem to be on and the shutters stay shut. As the weeks pass by at the White House, the corner of the residence long used by first ladies remains dark, because this first lady does not really live in Washington.

59 killed in Gaza as Israel set to ramp up offensive

08-05-2025

Israeli strikes across Gaza killed at least 59 people, including women and children, hospital officials said Wednesday, as Israel prepares to ramp up its campaign against Hamas in a devastating war now entering its 20th month.

Putin completes 25 yrs in Russia hot seat and still going strong

08-05-2025

Exactly 25 years ago on May 7, an obscure ex-KGB colonel Vladimir Putin -- with little public exposure as deputy mayor of St Petersburg -- took the oath of the highest office in the post-Communist Russia. A quarter century later, Putin, 72, still remains the most popular politician in Russia, as was evident by last year's election, which Putin won with 88.48 per cent of votes polled.

US loses fighter jet as landing on aircraft carrier goes awry

08-05-2025

An F/A-18 fighter jet landing on the USS Harry S Truman aircraft carrier in the Red Sea went overboard, forcing its two pilots to eject, a defence official told The Associated Press on Wednesday. The incident Tuesday marks the latest mishap to mar the deployment of the Truman, which has been essential in the airstrike campaign by the United States against Yemen's Houthi rebels.

Columbia shows door to 180 after Trump cuts grants

08-05-2025

Columbia University said Tuesday that it will be laying off nearly 180 staffers in response to President Donald Trump's decision to cancel $400 million in funding over the Manhattan college's handling of student protests against the war in Gaza.

Canadian PM says talks with Trump constructive despite no tariffs lifting

08-05-2025

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said that he had wide-ranging and constructive discussions with US President Donald Trump in the White House, although the two leaders disagreed on tariffs lifting and the "51st state," according to the live broadcast of CBC News.

Eyes on Sistine Chapel for white smoke sign

08-05-2025

With all the pomp, drama and solemnity that the Catholic Church can muster, 133 cardinals on Wednesday began centuries-old rituals to elect a successor to Pope Francis, celebrating a morning Mass before opening the most geographically diverse conclave in the faith's 2,000-year history.

Merz magic works in 2nd vote

07-05-2025

German conservative leader Friedrich Merz was elected chancellor by parliament on Tuesday in a second round of voting after a humiliating and unprecedented defeat on the first attempt, getting his coalition government off to a weak start.