
Powerball jackpot: Almost $1 billion on line for Sunday’s draw
After no ticket won the big prize on Saturday evening, the Powerball jackpot is expected…
Union Minister of External Affairs S Jaishankar on Sunday spoke on the limitless relationship between India and the United States and that the equation between both nations has exceeded expectations. S Jaishankar mentioned that India-US relationship is like Chandrayaan which will go to the moon and maybe beyond. “I am often asked, where do you…
BRATISLAVA: Slovakia’s pro-Russian and anti-liberal election winner Robert Fico was poised on Sunday to begin coalition talks to form a government likely to join Hungary in opposing the European Union’s military aid for Ukraine. The 59-year-old former prime minister’s SMER-SSD party scored nearly 23% of Saturday’s parliamentary poll, earning the president’s nod to start talks…
MOSCOW: At memorials to Yevgeny Prigozhin, who was killed in an unexplained plane crash exactly 40 days ago, dozens of mourners hailed the mutinous mercenary chief as a patriotic hero of Russia who had spoken truth to power. The private Embraer jet on which Prigozhin was travelling to St Petersburg crashed north of Moscow killing…
Thousands of employees of the Central government, state and PSUs have gathered at Delhi’s Ramlila Maidan to protest against the New Pension Scheme and demand the restoration of the Old Pension Scheme (OPS). According to a report, government and PSU employees of more than 20 states have come together for the ‘Pension Shankhanaad Rally’ to…
BRATISLAVA: Slovakia needs to restart border controls with Hungary to stem the flow of illegal migrants, election winner Robert Fico said on Sunday, flagging the issue as one of his potential government’s first priorities. Fico and his SMER-SSD group sat in pole position to form the next government for the nation of 5.5 million after…
Sixteen people were offloaded from a Saudi Arabia-bound flight and arrested this week for intending to seek alms. The group – allegedly Pakistani beggars – had obtained Umrah visas and disguised themselves as pilgrims. However they confessed that they were going to Saudi Arabia to seek alms. The incident took place two days ago and…
BEIJING: An earthquake of magnitude 4.5 on the Richter scale hit China’s Qinghai, the National Centre of Seismology (NCS) said on Sunday. According to the NCS, the earthquake occurred at 5:04 p.m. today at a depth of 86 Km. Taking to ‘X’, the NCS wrote, “Earthquake of Magnitude:4.5, Occurred on 01-10-2023, 17:04:19 IST, Lat: 33.35…
Apple India has been directed by a Bengaluru Consumer Court to pay a complainant a sum of ₹1 lakh, for causing the latter immense hardship and for unfair trade practice. The case is concerning an iPhone 13, whose battery and speaker stopped working after buying. According to a report by Times of India, an Awez…
After no ticket won the big prize on Saturday evening, the Powerball jackpot is expected to climb to an estimated $1.04 billion for Sunday’s drawings, ABC News quoted the lottery as saying. The Powerball lottery also noted that Saturday night’s drawing for the $960 million jackpot produced white balls 19, 30, 37, 44, and 46…
WASHINGTON: Democratic representative Jamaal Bowman acknowledged triggering a fire alarm Saturday in one of the US Capitol office buildings as lawmakers scrambled to pass a bill to fund the government before the midnight shutdown deadline. The fire alarm sounded out around noon in the Cannon House Office Building and prompted a building-wide evacuation at a…