Assam CM flags influx of ‘dubious people’, warns of arrests over fundamentalist activitiesAssam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma states the government is monitoring visitors from Mumbai and Kerala. Authorities will arrest indiv...
19 Aug, 2025, 08.57 PM IST
George Soros-backed Open Society Foundations, linked entities raided by EDThe Enforcement Directorate carried out searches at the offices of the Open Society Foundations (OSF) in Bengaluru over alleged violations ...
18 Mar, 2025, 12.00 PM IST
Olympics 2024: Upset bishops and mixed reviews for opening ceremonyThe Paris Olympics opening ceremony faced criticism from French bishops and conservatives for perceived mockery of Christianity and a "woke...
27 Jul, 2024, 10.43 PM IST
LinkedIn says spy firm targeted Hungarian activists, journalists before 2022 electionA researcher for Microsoft-owned LinkedIn said Black Cube, based in Israel, created a network of fake personas that used bogus job postings...
11 Nov, 2023, 12.38 PM IST
George Soros: The man who broke UK's central bank and criticised PM Narendra ModiIn a speech at the Munich Security Conference on Thursday, the billionaire philanthropist said he believes the turmoil at Gautam Adani's bu...
17 Feb, 2023, 10.29 PM IST
78 years on, Jewish Holocaust rescuers want their story toldThis chapter of the Holocaust heroism is scarcely remembered in Israel. Nor is it part of the official curriculum in schools. But the few r...
27 Jan, 2023, 12.24 PM IST
Where's Trump? Hungary PM asks on TwitterThe hardline anti-immigration Orban meanwhile has forged links with US right-wingers in recent years, earning praise from Trump who also en...
11 Oct, 2022, 07.41 PM IST
Ukrainians welcome in Hungary but Afghan student was notAfter studying in Hungary for three years, Hasib Qarizada sought asylum there after his native Afghanistan unraveled in chaos last August.
27 Mar, 2022, 02.08 PM IST
Alexei Navalny, WHO and Greta Thunberg among nominees for Nobel Peace PrizeNorwegian lawmakers have nominated the eventual laureate every year since 2014, with the exception of 2019, said Henrik Urdal, Director of ...
31 Jan, 2021, 09.55 PM IST
European Union hit by new crisis, this time over money and valuesThis time the 27-member union is being tested as Poland and Hungary block passage of its budget for the next seven years and an ambitious p...
19 Nov, 2020, 05.27 PM IST
China's president Xi Jinping is danger to freedom: Billionaire George SorosIn 2018, the Hungarian-born philanthropist had used his Davos speech to lambast tech giants such as Facebook, and what he considered to be ...
25 Jan, 2019, 07.16 PM IST
PM Narendra Modi makes impromptu visit to grave of Zionism's founderHerzl was an Austro-Hungarian journalist, playwright, political activist, and writer who is considered the founding father of Zionism - a m...
05 Jul, 2017, 12.12 AM IST
Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial is mirror to the world: PM Narendra ModiNarendra Modi was accompanied by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Israel's largest Holocaust memorial.
04 Jul, 2017, 11.39 PM IST
From Alejandro Inarritu to Vanessa Redgrave: Cannes draws battle-scarred map of the worldCannes has never shied away from taking contemporary politics head on.
28 May, 2017, 12.31 PM IST
From Subrata Roy to Rupert Murdoch, 5 business figures who were at the receiving end of hurled projectilesRecently, a man smashed a pie in Qantas CEO Alan Joyce's face.
17 May, 2017, 10.31 AM IST
Six reasons China’s rise won’t trigger a world war, as Germany’s had done a century agoIn Asia, the rise of China and territorial disputes between China and its neighbours have raised concerns that Europe's past could become A...
28 Jun, 2014, 12.37 PM IST
After a lull, tussle between CPM’s Prakash Karat and Sitaram Yechury resurfacesLeaders are not known to air their differences with comrades in public. In fact, they often do it only within their badly lit rooms.
21 Apr, 2013, 06.00 AM IST