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Top-ranking officials in US President Donald Trump‘s administration were quick to criticize Germany’s domestic intelligence agency BfV on Friday for designating the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party as a “right-wing extremist” entity.The agency said the party’s positions on ethnicity were incompatible with democracy, noting that the AfD “aims to exclude certain population groups from…

FILE – A man walks past Google’s offices in London’s Kings Cross area, on Aug. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Brian Melley, File) The US Justice Department have asked a federal judge to break up Google’s advertising technology business, marking the second government request within a year that could fundamentally reshape the $2 trillion giant. During a…

NEW DELHI: Atleast 6 people killed and over 60 injured in a major stampede that took place at the Lairai Devi temple in Goa. Chief minister Pramod Sawant takes stock of the situation. According to reports, the injured were shifted to nearby hospitals.State health minister Vishwajit Rane confirmed that the deceased, including two men and…

NEW DELHI: After LNG, govt is exploring the possibility of increasing fertiliser imports from the US as it seeks to address US President Donald Trump‘s concerns over the trade balance being in India’s favour.The move will also help India reduce its dependence on countries, such as China and Russia, which are among the top sources…

Ajay Devgn’s gripping new crime drama, ‘Raid 2’, has made a solid impression at the box office. Directed by Raj Kumar Gupta, the film is the much-awaited sequel to the 2018 hit ‘Raid’. Within just two days of release, ‘Raid 2’ has collected over Rs. 30 crore in India, even though it saw a drop…

BHOPAL: A 17-year-old girl was allegedly gang-raped by six men in Madhya Pradesh’s Shahdol town for two days, following which she was taken to a hotel by a deputy jailer, where police rescued her Thursday. All six suspected rapists were arrested. The deputy jailer, Vikas Singh, posted at Budhar sub-jail in Shahdol, faces charges of…

NEW DELHI: Pakistan may have shut its airspace for India airlines, but now European and British carriers have also started avoiding overflying that country. Lufthansa Group, which includes SWISS, confirmed doing so.Flight tracking site Flightradar24 Thursday posted on X: “Air France, British Airways & Swiss flights adjusting routing since (April 30) to avoid crossing through…

SRINAGAR: A Srinagar court has dismissed a case of obscenity and hurting religious sentiments against designers Shivan and Narresh and unidentified models over a fashion show held on ski resort Gulmarg’s snowy slopes this March.The court observed that the complaint, which included two screenshots showing one male and one female model in skimpy clothing, did…

SRINAGAR: Pakistan national Meenal Ahmed Khan was reunited with her husband, CRPF trooper Munir Khan, on J&K high court’s orders this week after being escorted back to Jammu from the Attari border checkpoint in Punjab moments before she was to be deported.Her lawyer and BJP spokesperson Ankur Sharma said Meenal, who married Munir in Jan…

New Delhi experienced its second-highest single-day rainfall in May since 1901, with 77 mm recorded at Safdarjung between 2:30 am and 8:30 am on Friday, according to the India Meteorological Department (IMD). The record remains 119.3 mm on May 20, 2021. The torrential downpour, driven by converging moisture from the Arabian Sea and the Bay…