A 21-year-old man has been sentenced to 14 weeks’ imprisonment and a two-year restraining order for sending racist death threats to Rishi Sunak in June last year, when he was still the British prime minister. Liam Shaw, from Birkenhead in Merseyside, north-west England, pleaded guilty to sending two threatening and offensive emails to the public…
US President Donald Trump on Sunday spoke about the much-discussed upcoming trade deals between the United States and other countries, including India. He said that letters related to these trade agreements will start going out from Monday.“We are going to be sending letters out on Monday having to do with the trade deals… It could…
California Governor Gavin Newsom accused US President Donald Trump of treating US National Guard troops with “disrespect” after images emerged of soldiers sleeping on the floor in cramped conditions following their deployment to Los Angeles amid ongoing protests. Newsom claimed that the Trump administration dispatched more than 2,000 troops to the city “without fuel, food,…
The Chinese military on Monday denied reports that its largest military cargo plane has carried arms supplies to Pakistan and warned legal action against those spreading such rumours. The People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAF) has denied that its Xi’an Y-20 military transport aircraft has taken supplies to Pakistan. After seeing a large amount of…
KATHMANDU: Members of Nepal’s National Assembly have urged Nepal govt to halt sending students to Odisha’s Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT) where two Nepalese female students died in suspicious circumstances within a period of three months. They proposed denying No-Objection Certificates (NOCs) to any student seeking enrolment at the institute, according to Parliament Secretariat…
TikTok was fined 530 million euros ($600 million) on Friday for violating a European Union data privacy law after regulators found the company had improperly transferred users’ personal data to China. The Irish Data Protection Commission, which announced the penalty, said TikTok failed to adequately protect data of its users in Europe, including some that…
The House on Monday overwhelmingly passed bipartisan legislation to criminalize the nonconsensual sharing of sexually explicit photos and videos of others — including A.I.-generated images known as “deepfakes” — and to mandate that platforms quickly remove them. The vote of 409 to 2 cleared the measure for President Trump, who was expected to quickly sign…
The House of Representatives on Wednesday approved resolutions striking down a $5 cap on most bank overdraft fees and overturning a rule that would have given a federal regulator greater oversight powers over payment apps run by large technology companies. The overdraft fee limit was struck down 217 to 211, with Representative Ryan Mackenzie of…
NEW DELHI: India is sending over 15 tonnes of relief material to earthquake-hit Myanmar that led to the death of at least 144 people and injuring more than 700.The relief package contains essential supplies, including tents, sleeping bags, blankets, ready-to-eat meals, water purifiers, hygiene kits, solar lamps, generator sets, and critical medicines like paracetamol, antibiotics,…
The United States has imposed visa sanctions on several Thai officials over the surprise deportation of 40 Uyghurs back to China last month, a rare instance of punishment for countries that have repatriated members of the persecuted Muslim minority despite warnings that they might face torture and long-term imprisonment upon their return. The visa restrictions…