Author: Rahul M

The Palestinian death toll in Gaza passed 60,000 on Tuesday. The world’s leading authority on food crises said the “ worst-case scenario of famine is currently playing out” in the territory of over 2 million people as starvation deaths rise. And the United Nations said far too little food and other aid was entering the enclave, while most of Tuesday’s dead were gunned down seeking aid.Pressure grew on Israel’s closest ally, the United States, to act as Americans’ support for Israeli military action declines sharply. And the British prime minister says the U.K. will recognize a Palestinian state in September…

New Delhi: The Prime Minister cancelled his scheduled visit to Jammu and Kashmir three days before the Pahalgam attack, suggesting that the government had prior information of an impending terrorist attack in the Union Territory, Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge said Tuesday. Levelling a big charge, Congress President Kharge asked, “The PM cancelled his scheduled visit to save himself, and innocent tourists laid down their lives”, which led to a huge ruckus in the House from the government benches. Kharge went on to add, “Is it their patriotism—to allow other people to die?” Leader of the House…

New Delhi: No world leader asked India to stop Operation Sindoor, Prime Minister Narendra Modi asserted Tuesday, while revealing that US Vice President J.D. Vance tried to reach him “three-four” times on 9 May before they could finally connect on a call. “9 tareekh ki raat ko America ke up-rashtrapati ne mujhse baat karne ka prayas kiya… woh ghante bhar se koshish kar rahe the lekin meri sena ke saath baithak chal rahi thi, isliye maine unka phone utha nahi paaya. Baad mein maine call back kiya. Maine unko kaha 3-4 baar aapka phone aa gaya…kya. (On the night of…

Mark Zuckerberg is on a warpath to recruit top talent in the AI field for his newly formed Meta Superintelligence Labs. After trying to gut OpenAI (and successfully poaching several top researchers), he appears to have set his sights on his next target.More than a dozen people at Mira Murati’s 50-person startup, Thinking Machines Lab, have been approached or received offers from the tech giant. (Murati, for those who don’t remember, was previously the chief technology officer at OpenAI.) One of those offers was more than $1 billion over a multi-year span, a source with knowledge of the negotiations tells…

The excavation process to unearth bodies allegedly buried secretly at Dharmasthala failed to make any headway on its first day, as intermittent showers lashed the temple town in Karnataka’s Dakshina Kannada district on Tuesday. The Special Investigation Team (SIT), set up to investigate the allegations made in a police complaint filed by a former sanitation worker, began the excavation at around 12 noon in the presence of revenue officials. A day earlier, the whistleblower marked 13 locations where he claims to have secretly buried bodies of alleged sexual assault and murder victims. The SIT picked one of the 13 locations,…

Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) in Bengaluru has recorded the highest number of bird strikes among airports in South India, with 343 incidents reported over the past five-and-a-half years. On a national scale, Bengaluru ranks third, following Delhi and Mumbai, which recorded 695 and 405 bird strikes respectively during the same period.Also read: Karnataka reports rise in lightning deaths despite fewer strikes in 2024Bird strikes—collisions between birds and aircraft—typically occur during take-off and landing, often resulting in damage to engines and windshields. These incidents are a serious aviation safety concern. Nationwide, approximately 2,800 such incidents have been reported from 2020 to June…

Cricket Ireland and the England & Wales Cricket Board have today confirmed that Ireland Women will face England Women in a three-match ODI series in England in September 2026. The series will form part of the ICC Women’s Championship, with qualification points for the 2029 ODI World Cup on the line. 2026 Series Details: 1 September – 1st ODI at Uptonsteel County Ground, Leicester (1 pm) 3 September – 2nd ODI at Central Co-op County Ground, Derby (1 pm) 6 September – 3rd ODI at New Road, Worcester (11 am) “It is good to be able to announce these International…

New Delhi: If Donald Trump is lying about persuading India to halt its military action against Pakistan during Operation Sindoor, then Prime Minister Narendra Modi should call the US President’s bluff on the floor of the House, Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, said Tuesday, launching a sharp attack on the Centre’s political leadership. Gandhi accused the Modi government of undermining the military by “tying their hands behind their backs” during the strikes against Pakistan. He alleged that the true goal of the operation was not national security but to shield the prime minister, whom he…

MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian journalist was convicted and sentenced to 12 years in prison on Tuesday on charges of “extremism” over her links to an opposition group, part of an unrelenting crackdown on dissent.A court in the city of Ufa in Russia’s Bashkortostan region found Olga Komleva, 46, guilty of involvement with an organization of late opposition leader Alexei Navalny that was officially branded “extremist.” Following her closed-door trial, the judge also found Komleva guilty on charges of “spreading false information” about the Russian military. She rejected the charges.Komleva, who has been in custody since her arrest in March…

CAIRO (AP) — Thirteen children died of malnutrition-related causes last month in a camp for displaced people in the Darfur region of Sudan, where civil war has created the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, a doctors’ group said Tuesday.The deaths in the Lagawa camp in East Darfur province were the latest tragedy in Sudan, which plunged into chaos in April 2023 when tensions between the military and the notorious paramilitary Rapid Support Forces exploded in the capital, Khartoum, and quickly spread.The Sudan Doctors Network, a group of Sudanese medical professionals across the northeastern African country, reported the children’s deaths in a…