NEW DELHI: Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar on Thursday lost his cool again in the state assembly after he saw an opposition legislator using mobile phones while the House was in session.Nitish rose up to register his objection and requested the speaker, Nand Kishore Yadav, to ban mobile phones in the assembly.“These people are talking…
NEW DELHI: Veteran BJP MP Bishupada Ray, representing the only parliamentary seat from the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, lost his temper in Lok Sabha on Tuesday, when the Zero Hour ended without him getting a chance to raise an issue related to his constituency.Ray’s party colleagues had to rush in to cool him down, with…
BERLIN: After decades of dominating China’s market for high-performance cars with precision engineering, German automakers are losing out to Chinese rivals that have shifted the definition of a high-end car to one that is electric, smart and affordable.Many new Chinese vehicles resemble their German rivals, including the popular Xiaomi SU7, which mimics Porsche’s Taycan. The…
Delhi’s is among the smallest of many elections held in the world’s largest democracy – but on Saturday, the national capital sent out some massive national political messages.First, BJP’s post-Lok Sabha elections loss of lustre is now a firmly closed chapter. Modi is back again as a political super-force and the most saleable political brand….
D Gukesh (Credit: Freestyle Chess / Lennart Ootes) NEW DELHI: The 2025 Freestyle Chess Grand Slam kicked off at Weissenhaus on Germany’s Baltic coast, with Chess960 taking centre stage on Friday. The tournament, featuring top grandmasters, serves as a preliminary rapid event to determine the eight players advancing to the knockout phase.Indian GM D Gukesh,…
The man who has been heavily favored to become Germany’s next chancellor took an extraordinary gamble this week, both for his political future and his country’s longstanding firewall against political extremism. It did not go as he hoped. In an effort to portray himself and his party as tough on immigration, Friedrich Merz, the leader…
The New York Stock Exchange is shown in New York’s Financial District on December 31, 2024. (AP) NEW YORK: The tech-rich Nasdaq tumbled early Monday as traders around Wall Street and other global bourses reacted to the emergence of a low-cost Chinese generative AI venture that has apparently overtaken US companies.DeepSeek, which was developed by…
WASHINGTON: A military appeals court has ruled against Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s effort to throw out the plea deals reached for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two other defendants in the 9/11 attacks, a U.S. official said. The decision puts back on track the agreements that would have the three men plead guilty to one of…
NEW DELHI: He was quite disciplined not to play the shot outside off-stump, which has become a major problem for him, for most of the innings, but still Virat Kohli‘s gritty innings came to a disappointing end in the closing minutes of the second day of the fourth Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy at the…
Download App NewsWorldGermany to go for early polls after Chancellor Olaf Scholz loses confidence vote German Chancellor Olaf Scholz loses confidence vote in Parliament, triggers early polls in February Advertisement UPDATED: Dec 16, 2024 21:15 IST German Chancellor Olaf Scholz loses confidence vote in Parliament, triggers early polls in February This is a developing story….