Indian student Komalpreet Kaur dies in Perth, Australia, in a road accident. A 19-year-old Indian student, Komalpreet Kaur, died in Perth, Australia, after she was struck by a car and got trapped under the car. The accident took place last Saturday at about 11.30 pm at the Bentley Plaza car park on Albany Highway, near…
British-Iranian journalist Pouria Zeraati A British court on Monday heard explosive allegations that the Iranian state used Romanian nationals as “proxies” to carry out a knife attack on a London-based Iranian journalist linked to opposition broadcaster Iran International.According to news agency Reuters, Pouria Zeraati, a British-Iranian journalist working for the Persian-language channel critical of Tehran,…
For a brief moment in medieval England, a poor boy stood at the centre of a royal rebellion and wore a crown meant for kings. Lambert Simnel was only around 10 years old when Yorkist supporters presented him as a claimant to the English throne during the turbulent years after the Wars of the Roses….
What Steve Jobs understood about messy careers that most people miss? Image credit – Wikimedia Almost twenty years since Steve Jobs’ famous speech at Stanford University’s graduation ceremony, one section of that speech has remained memorable for people across the globe who are students, professionals, or entrepreneurs. “You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you…
UAE to get 16 New Indian Passport and Visa Centres in major expat services overhaul / Image: File More than four million Indians living in the UAE are set to see a major overhaul in passport, visa and consular services, after India awarded a massive outsourcing contract to Kerala-based Alhind Group, which will launch 16…
UAE sets one salary deadline for all private sector firms starting June 2026 / Image: @MOHRE The UAE has announced one of its strongest wage protection reforms in years, ordering all private-sector companies to pay employee salaries on the first day of every Gregorian month starting June 1, 2026, as authorities intensify efforts to tighten…
Russia-China (Image credit:AP) Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to visit China on Tuesday for a two-day visit, less than a week after US President Donald Trump made a high-profile trip to the country.Chinese President Xi Jinping’s ‘old friend’ visit is officially linked to the 25th anniversary of the 2001 Sino-Russian Treaty of Good-Neighborliness and…
Hiccups may not affect the majority of people because it is usually considered just another temporary inconvenience. They usually go away in a matter of minutes and might leave nothing but some slight frustration and awkward laughter. But hiccups affected one American so deeply that he experienced the problem his entire life, and doctors could…
A rare copy of Caedmon’s Hymn is visible in the five lines above the final line of a page from an 8th-century manuscript copy of the Venerable Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People (Image credit: AP) The researchers in Ireland looked at their computer screen, marvelling at a medieval book tracked down in a…
US President Trump (Image credit: AP) WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump’s administration created a nearly $1.8 billion fund to settle claims that the justice department improperly targeted his political allies in exchange for the president voluntarily dismissing his $10 billion lawsuit against the internal revenue service. The settlement creates an “AntiWeaponisation Fund” that will pay…