ANKARA: Turkey‘s parliament on Thursday ratified Finland‘s application to join NATO, lifting the last hurdle in the way of the Nordic country’s long-delayed accession into the Western military alliance. All 276 lawmakers present voted in favor of Finland’s bid, days after Hungary’s parliament also endorsed Helsinki’s accession. “This will make the whole NATO family stronger […]
JALANDHAR: Fugitive Khalistan sympathiser Amritpal Singh teased authorities with another video message Thursday, saying he won’t surrender. He is said to have evaded capture on the night of March 28 in Hoshiarpur where he and his aide Papalpreet ditched their Innova near a gurdwara at Marnaian Kalan village during a police chase after being alerted […]
Priyanka Chopra became a mom to daughter Malti Marie in January 2022, when she was 39 years old – about 3 years after getting married to Nick Jonas. The couple welcomed the baby via surrogacy.Recently on Dax Shepard’s Podcast, she shared that she froze her eggs in her early 30s, as she “had not met […]
DUBAI: United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan has appointed his eldest son Sheikh Khaled as crown prince of Abu Dhabi, the oil-rich capital of the Gulf state, and named his brothers to top roles, state media said on Wednesday.Sheikh Mohammed, who became president and Abu Dhabi ruler last year after running […]
DAMASCUS: Israel launched a number of missiles from the Golan Heights targeting the vicinity of Syria‘s capital Damascus that left two soldiers wounded and “some material damage”, Syrian state media reported early on Thursday citing a military source.Syrian air defences confronted the missiles and shot down some of them, the source added.The Syrian Observatory for […]
Nasa scientists have spotted a massive black region on the Sun, which is 20 times larger than Earth. The appearance of the “coronal hole” has prompted US federal agency National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to sound out an alert for geomagnetic storms as the gaping hole is unleashing 1.8 million mile-per-hour solar winds towards […]
HANOI -The chief of Vietnam’s ruling Communist Party Nguyen Phu Trong and U.S. President Joe Biden agreed in a telephone call on Wednesday to “promote, develop and deepen” ties, Vietnam‘s state media reported. The call, a rare engagement for Biden with a foreign leader who is not a head of state or government, came as […]
AHMEDABAD: Chennai Super Kings skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s left knee injury has raised doubts over his participation in the IPL opener against Gujarat Titans on Friday, but the team CEO ruled out such a possibility.The 41-year-old former India skipper has apparently sustained a niggle on his left knee during a training session in Chennai and […]
The ‘government of Pakistan’ Twitter account has been blocked in India. “Account Withheld @GovtofPakistan’s account has been withheld in India in response to a legal demand. https://Learn more,” reads the notice on the company’s official Twitter page. Twitter has blocked the Pakistan government’s account from being viewed in India in response to a legal demand, […]
London: Britain on Thursday warned against the threat of protectionism as it slammed the United States for leading a “distortive” green energy subsidy race. Finance Minister Jeremy Hunt‘s remarks came as his government updated its energy security plan to ramp up renewable and nuclear power. The Conservative government led by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is […]
