United States (US)-based firm Hindenburg Research on Saturday alleged that Securities and Exchange Board of India`s (SEBI) Chairperson Madhabi Buch and her husband had a stake in “both the obscure offshore entities used in the Adani money siphoning scandal.” After putting out a teaser in the morning, hinting at a significant disclosure involving India, Hindenburg…
Brazilian rescue teams Saturday (August 10, 2024) retrieved the remains of all 62 passengers from the wreckage of a plane crash in Sao Paulo state as families started gathering in the metropolis to identify and bury their loved ones. Local airline Voepass’ plane, an ATR 72 twin-engine turboprop, was headed for Sao Paulo’s international airport…
Donald Trump’s presidential campaign said that it had been hacked and suggested Iranian actors were involved in stealing and distributing sensitive internal documents. | Photo Credit: AP Former President Donald Trump’s presidential campaign said on Saturday (August 10, 2024) that it had been hacked and suggested Iranian actors were involved in stealing and distributing sensitive…
The story so far: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, one of the world’s largest recipients of migrant domestic workers (MDWs), will roll out a new domestic workers law in September. The six GCC states (Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, and Bahrain) employ close to 5.5 million migrant domestic workers, and all of them…
Tim Walz, Governor of Minnesota, may not in his wildest dreams have imagined that one day he would be picked as a running mate alongside a U.S. presidential candidate, yet that was indeed how the plot twist on the Democratic side played out at this tail end of the 2024 election season. Mr. Walz, a…
The Australian government said on Saturday it had for the first time test-fired a Raytheon SM-6 missile from a Navy ship, a major step in acquiring and integrating the air-defence weapon into its inventory. The HMAS Sydney conducted the test near the U.S. state of Hawaii as part of the Pacific Dragon 2024 exercise, Australia’s…
At least 150 civilians from Myanmar’s Muslim Rohingya minority may have been killed this week in an artillery and drone attack in the western state of Rakhine that survivors suspect was carried out by a major force in the resistance to military rule. The Arakan Army, the military wing of the state’s Rakhine ethnic group,…
Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray on Saturday alleged that Nationalist Congress Party (SP) chief Sharad Pawar and former Maharashtra Chief Minister (CM) Uddhav Thackeray were trying to use the Maratha quota stir to trigger riots, especially in the Marathwada region, ahead of the state Assembly elections in October-November. Addressing a press conference in…
The clashes stemmed from an attempted assassination of al-Baqrah on Friday (August 9, 2024), which his militia blamed on al-Shahida Sabriya, according to local media reports. File | Photo Credit: AP “Clashes between two heavily armed militia groups in Libya’s capital terrorised residents and killed about a dozen people, the latest bout of violence in…
Two Army personnel were killed while three others sustained injuries in a fierce gunfight with terrorists in a forest at a remote area in Jammu and Kashmir`s Anantnag district on Saturday, officials said. The incident occurred at Ahlan Gagarmandu forest in the Kokernag area of the south Kashmir district during a cordon and search operation…
