Outgoing US President Joe Biden has issued pardons to Dr Anthony Fauci, retired General Mark Milley, and members of the House Committee that investigated the Capitol Hill attacks. This decision comes hours before Donald Trump is set to take oath as the 47th President of the United States. The move is seen as an attempt…
NEW DELHI: Gyanendra Pratap Singh, a 1991 batch IPS officer and currently Director General (DGP) of Assam police, has been appointed as the new DG of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF).CRPF special DG Vitul Kumar has been officiating as CRPF chief since the superannuation of incumbent Anish Dayal Singh on December 31, 2024. Sources told…
The Federal Trade Commission said on Thursday that it had reached a settlement with General Motors that would ban the automaker from providing drivers’ behavior and geolocation data to consumer reporting agencies. The ban will last for five years. The New York Times reported last year that G.M. was collecting data about people’s driving behavior,…
NEW DELHI: Amid the ongoing push for “gender-neutrality” in the overwhelming male-dominated environs of the armed forces, General Upendra Dwivedi on Monday said women officers were performing exceedingly well, disagreeing with the “perception” of a serving Lt General who strongly criticised them for not measuring up to the requisite standards as commanding officers (COs).The Army…
NEW DELHI: India and Bangladesh consider each other “strategically important” neighbours and any kind of “animosity” between the two countries is not in the interest of either, Army chief General Upendra Dwivedi said on Monday.Asked about the current status of India-Bangladesh relations, Gen Dwivedi said, “We should talk about the (overall) relationship when there is…
NEW DELHI: Delhi BJP general secretary Vishnu Mittal launched a scathing attack on Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, accusing him of focusing on building a “sheeshmahal” (palatial residence) while Prime Minister Narendra Modi is dedicated to improving the lives of the poor.“Arvind Kejriwal is building his ‘sheeshmahal’ while PM Modi is building houses for the…
Iran’s top ranking general in Syria has contradicted the official line taken by Iran’s leaders on the sudden downfall of their ally Bashar al-Assad, saying in a remarkably candid speech last week that Iran had suffered a major defeat but would still try to operate in the country. An audio recording of the speech, given…
Halfway through the first Trump administration, Carnival Corporation, the world’s biggest cruise line, had a problem in Cuba that it wanted the president to fix. So Carnival, a Miami-based company, hired a new lobbyist: Pam Bondi, who developed a close relationship with Donald J. Trump during her two terms as Florida’s attorney general, the state’s…
General Motors and Ford Motor each reported strong increases in vehicle sales in the United States in the final three months of 2024 amid rising expectations for continued growth in the new year. G.M. said its fourth-quarter sales rose 21 percent from the period a year earlier, to more than 755,000 cars and light trucks….
US Surgeon General in an advisory issued on Friday, cautioned Americans about the cancer risks associated with alcohol consumption, urging the implementation of updated health warning labels on alcoholic beverages to increase public awareness.US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy noted that the link between alcohol and cancer has been recognised since the 1980s, with growing evidence…