Costco is suing the Trump administration, seeking a full refund of the import taxes it paid under President Trump’s executive orders earlier this year. The discount retailer, a big importer, wants the U.S. government to stop imposing tariffs on goods Costco brings into the country until the Supreme Court weighs in on the legality of…
Chairman of Legislative Council Basavaraj Horatti being felicitated in Hubballi on Saturday. | Photo Credit: KIRAN BAKALE Chairman of the Legislative Council Basavaraj Horatti, who has already created a record for his eighth successive win from the teachers’ constituency, was given a grand and warm felicitation by leaders of various political parties, including Chief Minister…
MEXICO CITY — Juan Orlando Hernández, a convicted drug trafficker who prosecutors said “paved a cocaine superhighway” to the United States, walked out of a West Virginia prison this week a free man. That was thanks to President Trump, who on Monday granted a full pardon to Hernández, the former right-wing leader of Honduras who was serving…
Emergency staff engaged in decontamination during a drill at Kaiga station in Uttara Kannada district on December 11. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT A drill on testing preparedness in the event of a radiation leak at the Kaiga atomic power generation station of Nuclear Power Corporation of India (NPCIL) was successfully conducted in the ‘likely…
CARACAS, Venezuela — Even in Venezuela, a nation battered by years of economic, social and political turmoil, the Christmas season is a time to put aside one’s troubles, spend time with family, enjoy a bit of holiday cheer — if you can escape the ubiquitous uncertainty and rumors that mark life here. On one day social media…
Karnataka’s Infrastructure Development Minister M.B. Patil. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu The Karnataka State Industrial and Infrastructure Development Corporation (KSIIDC) has invited tenders to select an expert consultancy firm to prepare a location suitability and comprehensive technical and financial feasibility report for the proposed second international airport for the State capital. The last date…
For most American infants, the hepatitis B shot comes just before their first bath, in the blur of pokes, prods and pictures that attend a 21st century hospital delivery. But as of this week, thousands of newborns across the U.S. will no longer receive the initial inoculation for hepatitis B — the first in a…
Spectators ransack Salt Lake Stadium on December 13 because they could not see Messi paying high value for tickets. | Photo Credit: Debasish Bhaduri Kolkata As violence erupted at Salt Lake Stadium in Kolkata on Saturday (December 13, 2025) at footballer Lionel Messi’s event, both opposition leaders and the Governor raised questions about the organisers and the government’s role in handling the…
On Thursday, Mohammed Zaher Ibrahim, 16, was released from Israel’s Ofer Prison and reunited with his family. The Palestinian American boy from Florida had been 15 when Israeli soldiers abducted him from his home in the West Bank village of Al-Mazraa Ash-Sharquia on Feb. 16. His first stop after prison was the hospital. Before his…
Now-jailed and suspended All India Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Sheikh Shahjahan. File | Photo Credit: ANI One person was arrested on Saturday (December 13, 2025) in connection with the alleged road accident, in which one of the prime witnesses in the CBI and ED cases against suspended All India Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Sheikh Shahjahan of…