Ishaq Hussein Khaku, a 25-year-old from Bengaluru, was excited to spend the party season in Goa with his friends. According to his father, Mohammed Hussain, the group decided to go on December 6 for ‘Bollywood night’ at Birch by Romeo Lane, a restaurant, cocktail bar, and club that had opened last year in the village…
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled for Texas and its GOP leaders on Thursday, clearing the way for the state to use a new election map in 2026 that is expected to send five more Republicans to Congress. The justices set aside, for now, a 2-1 ruling by district judges who called the state’s map a…
Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai. File | Photo Credit: – Senior Congress leader Charandas Mahant on Friday (December 12, 2025) announced that the party’s legislators will boycott the proceedings of the inaugural day of the upcoming Winter session of the Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly. Mr. Mahant, who is also the leader of the Opposition in…
The saga of a Los Angeles Army veteran who legally immigrated to the United States, was wounded in combat and self-deported to South Korea earlier this year, became a flashpoint during a testy congressional hearing about the Trump administration’s immigration policy. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was grilled Thursday on Capitol Hill about military veterans…
Vignan University and Ipseity Diagnostics and Research exchange MoU in the presence of Chairman Lavu Rathaiah, at the University campus near Guntur on Friday. | Photo Credit: BY ARRANGEMENT In a significant boost to biomedical innovation in Andhra Pradesh, Ipseity Diagnostics and Research, a U.S.-based molecular diagnostics company, has entered into a scientific collaboration with…
A key vaccine advisory panel for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention voted Friday to drop a decades-old recommendation to vaccinate all newborns against hepatitis B, the committee’s most controversial decision since its overhaul by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in June. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted 8…
RUSI has published a paper (on December 12, 2025) saying, “Russia’s international customers for air defences should reassess the resilience of these systems to attacks, including cyberattacks, technical compromise and disruption of resupply in supply chains”. What specifically does this mean for the S-400 which India has acquired? If we focus on S-400, the first…
WASHINGTON — House Democrats on Friday released 19 photographs from Jeffrey Epstein’s private email server showing a collection of powerful men in politics, media and Hollywood in the convicted sex offender’s orbit. The photographs do not reveal any wrongdoing, but offer more detail about who Epstein associated with. The images show Steve Bannon, a former Trump adviser,…
Image used for representational purposes only. File | Photo Credit: Anil Kumar Sastry Facing an acute manpower crunch, the Indian Railways has decided to recruit ex-servicemen as pointsmen across its network. The Railway Board has approved the engagement of 5,058 ex-servicemen on a contractual basis as an interim measure to meet operational requirements, until regular…
MEXICO CITY — Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has repeatedly insisted that she will not allow the U.S. military to fight drug cartels inside her nation’s borders. “It’s not going to happen,” Sheinbaum said last month after President Trump yet again threatened such an operation. “We don’t want intervention by any foreign government.” But while Sheinbaum passionately defends…