US President-elect Donald Trump said on Sunday he will rename Denali, Alaska natives’ name for North America’s tallest mountain, after William McKinley, the 25th US president who was assassinated in 1901. Democratic former President Barack Obama in 2015 officially renamed the mountain as Denali, siding with the state of Alaska and ending a decades-long naming…
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday looked set to lose power early next year after a key ally said he would move to bring down the minority Liberal government and trigger an election. New Democratic Party leader Jagmeet Singh, who has been helping keep Trudeau in office, said he would present a formal motion…
PATNA: A day before the launch of Bihar CM Nitish Kumar’s ‘Mahila Samvad Yatra’, former deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav on Saturday announced ‘Mai Bahan Maan Yojana‘ (MBMY), promising Rs 2,500 per month each to women from poor and deprived sections of society if RJD forms a govt. “This scheme will be launched and implemented within…
US President-elect Donald Trump said on Saturday that he wants to end daylight saving time (DST), describing the long-standing practice as “inconvenient” and “very costly” to Americans. DST, which involves moving clocks forward in spring and back in fall to maximise daylight during warmer months, is currently observed in most US states and about a…
US President-elect Donald Trump has pledged to carry out the largest deportation in American history once he assumes office on January 20, 2025. In preparation, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has compiled a list of approximately 1.5 million individuals marked for deportation. Among them, nearly 18,000 undocumented Indian nationals are on the list…
US President-elect Donald Trump has announced that he would be abolishing birthright citizenship on Day 1 of taking charge for his second term. This right has been part of the US Constitution for more than 150 years. It states that a person born in the US is an American citizen. Trump had even suggested this…
French President Emmanuel Macron will appoint a new prime minister in the coming days whose top priority will be getting a 2025 budget adopted by parliament, he said on Thursday after the government was toppled by lawmakers. Michel Barnier, a veteran conservative, became the shortest-serving prime minister in modern French history when he resigned on…
Thousands of Syrian insurgents took over most of Aleppo on Saturday, establishing positions in the country’s largest city and controlling its airport before expanding their shock offensive to a nearby province. They faced little to no resistance from government troops, according to fighters and activists. A war monitor, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said…
NEW DELHI: Two government employees in Jammu and Kashmir were fired Friday for alleged connections to terrorism, officials said. Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha dismissed Abdul Rehman Naika, a health department pharmacist, and Zahir Abbas, a school education department teacher, using Article 311 (2) (c) of the Constitution. Investigations by law enforcement and intelligence agencies “clearly…
NEW DELHI: Delhi chief minister Atishi on Friday said that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) would not field a candidate against BJP’s leader of opposition, Vijender Gupta, in the upcoming elections on the Rohini seat if Gupta could persuade lieutenant governor VK Saxena to approve the reinstatement of 10,000 bus marshals.Atishi went a step further,…