DHULIAN: Cries of “We need protection” punctuated the uneasy calm that descended Sunday on mixed-population neighbourhoods lining a 7km stretch of Bengal’s Murshidabad that bore the brunt of clashes over the new Waqf law since Friday night. As fear hung in the air, hundreds – mostly women and children – crossed the Ganga by boat…
Hundreds of reservists and retired officers in Israel’s air force signed a letter on Thursday urging the Israeli government to agree to a deal with Hamas to return hostages, even at the price of stopping the war in Gaza. The letter, which was signed by roughly a thousand people, including a former chief of staff…
Prosecutors early Sunday requested that detained Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, the top challenger to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, be formally arrested over allegations of corruption and terror links. A court is now set to decide whether the popular opposition figure will be charged and jailed pending a trial. The arrest this week of Imamoglu has…
A North Dakota jury on Wednesday awarded hundreds of millions of dollars in damages to the Texas-based pipeline company Energy Transfer, which had sued Greenpeace over its role in protests nearly a decade ago against its Dakota Access Pipeline. The verdict was a major blow to the storied environmental organization. Greenpeace had maintained that it…
U.S. deported hundreds in the face of a judge’s order Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced yesterday that hundreds of Venezuelans accused of being gang members were sent from the U.S. to El Salvador, a day after a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to cease such deportations. The timing of the flights could determine…
The Trump administration has transferred hundreds of immigrants to El Salvador despite a federal judge’s order temporarily barring the deportations under an 18th century wartime declaration targeting Venezuelan gang members, officials said Sunday. Flights were in the air at the time of the ruling. US District Judge James E. Boasberg issued an order Saturday evening…
Hundreds of protesters rallied at Tesla stores across several cities, including Washington, DC, and Boston, on Saturday. The protesters were expressing their anger against CEO Elon Musk and his contentious involvement with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) that is attempting to cut government spending. This protest is part of an ongoing movement, ‘Tesla Takedown,’…
Sachin Tendulkar (Photo Source: X) On this day 13 years ago, after a wait that lasted an year, Sachin Tendulkar did the almost unthinkable by scoring his 100th international century when India played the fourth ODI on their 2012 tour of Bangladesh.Tendulkar is the first and still the only player to score a century of…
Pakistani security forces have been locked in a deadly standoff with armed militants for more than a day after the attackers seized a passenger train on Tuesday and held hundreds hostage. The Baloch Liberation Army, or B.L.A., a banned separatist group, seized the train, which was carrying more than 400 people, in a remote mountainous…
Hundreds of weather forecasters and other federal National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration employees on probationary status were fired Thursday, lawmakers and weather experts said. Federal workers who were not let go said the afternoon layoffs included meteorologists who do crucial local forecasts in National Weather Service offices across the country. Cuts at NOAA appeared to…