Markets were closed in Jaipur and some other Rajasthan districts and protesters blocked roads and stopped trains on Wednesday after a bandh call by the Rashtriya Rajput Karni Sena over the killing of its chief Sukhdev Singh Gogamedi. Governor Kalraj Mishra spoke to Union Home Minister Amit Shah over the phone and summoned the state…
Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Saudi Arabia Wednesday after visiting the United Arab Emirates, making a rare trip abroad as Moscow seeks to reassert itself on the global stage. It is only the third trip the Russian leader has taken outside the former Soviet Union since he invaded Ukraine, following visits to Iran and…
Former US President Donald Trump, during an event on December 5, predicted he would receive 150 million votes from the public in the 2024 US presidential election. Trump, the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination, was appearing at a Fox News event before a friendly audience in Davenport, Iowa, the state where the party’s nominating…
The head of the UN warned on Wednesday that he expects “public order to completely break down soon due to the desperate conditions” in Gaza, currently under relentless Israeli bombardment. The humanitarian conditions amid the Israel-Hamas war are “fast deteriorating into a catastrophe with potentially irreversible implications for Palestinians as a whole,” Secretary-General Antonio Guterres…
Britain’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) on Wednesday raided an address and arrested one person as part of a probe into an aircraft parts supplier that serviced several major airlines. Investigators are looking into UK-based AOG Technics Ltd, which has supplied parts for the world’s best-selling passenger aircraft engine (CFM56) and most-used cargo aircraft engine (CF6)…
Kyiv said it orchestrated the assassination of a pro-Kremlin Ukrainian politician on Wednesday after an ex-lawmaker who had defected to Russia was shot dead outside Moscow. Since Russia invaded last February, Ukraine has claimed to be behind a spate of assassinations and attacks on pro-war Russians and former Ukrainian officials who have backed Moscow’s war….
Two overground workers (OGWs) of terrorists were arrested along with arms and ammunition in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said on Wednesday.   Mohd Farooq and Mohd Nazir were arrested during a search and cordon operation in Behrote village in the Budhal area, they said.   A pistol, two magazines, 30 bullets, two hand grenades…
Amid suspense over the BJP’s chief minister’s pick for Rajasthan, senior party leader and former Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje was headed to New Delhi Wednesday night. She was scheduled take a flight to Delhi. #WATCH | Former Rajasthan CM and BJP leader Vasundhara Raje leaves for Delhi from Jaipur airport. pic.twitter.com/SviAdgBiz5 — ANI (@ANI) December…
The BJP on Wednesday trained its guns at the Arvind Kejriwal government in Delhi, alleging “corruption” in the award of tenders by the flood and irrigation department and payments to contractors without any work being done on the ground. Flood and Irrigation Minister Saurabh Bharadwaj, however, fired back at BJP, asking it to first answer…
Britain’s hardline former interior minister Suella Braverman on Wednesday issued Prime Minister Rishi Sunak an ultimatum to get tougher on immigration or face certain wipeout at the polls. Suella Braverman, sacked last month after a series of outspoken comments, told parliament it was “now or never” to tackle “mass, uncontrolled, illegal immigration”. Her statement comes…