North Korea has barred foreigners from a newly opened beach resort, the country’s tourism administration said this week, just days after Russia’s top diplomat visited the area. The sprawling seaside resort on its east coast, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s pet project, opened to domestic visitors earlier this month with great fanfare in state-run…
NEW DELHI: The verdict arrived like a long-awaited storm in Kotdwar’s courtroom, quiet but crushing. More than two years and eight months after a 19-year-old receptionist was murdered in cold blood, the gavel finally fell. Resort owner Pulkit Arya, along with Saurabh Bhaskar and Ankit Gupta, was sentenced to life imprisonment.For those who had followed…
MUMBAI: RBI has acknowledged that government’s ownership of public sector banks makes its risk management job easier. In its latest economic capital framework report, RBI notes that such ownership has “demonstrably reduced the potential losses” it might face when offering emergency liquidity assistance (ELA), warranting lower capital buffers for these entities.In other words, govt-owned lenders…
SRINAGAR: With terrorists shifting their focus to the Jammu region and resorting to jungle warfare following drastic decline in their numbers in the Kashmir valley due to a strong anti-terror grid, the role of J&K police —which has lost four of its personnel in the ongoing operation in the forested Sufain area in Kathua district…
Donald Trump’s Turnberry golf resort in Scotland has been vandalised by pro-Palestinian activists in response to his recent remarks on Gaza. The group Palestine Action claimed responsibility, calling the act a direct response to Trump’s proposals to take control of Gaza and redevelop it. “The most expensive golf course in Britain, Trump’s Turnberry golf resort,…
President Trump on Tuesday night shared an AI-generated video depicting the devastated Gaza Strip as an opulent resort emblazoned with his name, less than a week after he appeared to back off his proposal to displace Palestinians en masse from the territory and assert U.S. control over it. It was not immediately clear where the…
MELBOURNE, Australia : A man from Memphis, Tennessee, was sentenced to life in prison for murdering his wife during their honeymoon in Fiji in 2022, a court official said on Friday. Bradley Robert Dawson, 40, will have to serve at least 18 years in prison before he can be considered for release, a Fiji High…
At least six people were killed and 25 others injured on Friday in a fire at a construction site for a luxury hotel in Busan, a port city in southeastern South Korea, fire officials said. Fire officials received the first report around 10:50 a.m. local time of a fire, which apparently broke out in the…
NEW ORLEANS — Spring 1982. Sixteen seconds left in the NCAA final, and a skinny freshman from North Carolina buries a jumper that delivers a championship and changes his life. He showed up in New Orleans that week as Mike Jordan. He left as Michael. By that point, the sprawling steel building that provided the…
Dubai’s Islands in the Sky : दुनिया के लोगों को आकर्षित करने वाला दुबई लगातार अपने आपको डेवलप कर रहा है. चाहे वो बुर्ज खलीफा हो या 300 से ज्यादा इंसानों का बनाए गए आइलैंड, दुबई ने अपने डेवलपमेंट से दुनिया को हमेशा हैरान कर दिया है. लेकिन, बुर्ज खलीफा से पहचाने जाने वाले दुबई…