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Brazil has entrusted Ancelotti with ending a 24-year title drought. | Photo Credit: Imagn Images via Reuters The road to the World Cup is built on promises. Some come from history, others from possibility. When Brazil and Morocco walk onto the pitch in East Rutherford, they bring both. One carries five stars and two decades…
The police on Friday arrested a teacher attached to a private school in Coimbatore for allegedly sending explicit videos to students. The arrested has been identified as V. Babu (34) of Dindigul. The police said that he was employed in a school at Kalapatti. The parents of a student approached the All Women Police Station,…
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Arul R.B. Krishna, a 2012-batch IPS officer of Kerala cadre, has been posted as Deputy Inspector General of Police and District Police Chief (Thiruvananthapuram City). He was previously the Deputy Inspector General of Police, Ernakulam Range. Dr. Krishna, who had earlier served as the Deputy Commissioner of Police, Thiruvananthapuram City, will replace Karthick K., who…
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Image used for representational purposes only. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto A group of UN experts on Thursday (June 12, 2026) denounced a crackdown on women in Afghanistan’s western city of Herat, saying at least two people had been killed during a protest against the restrictions. Herat’s morality police started arresting dozens of women on…
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Philippines’ Defence Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr. | Photo Credit: Reuters The Philippine government said Friday (June 12, 2026) that China’s imposition of sanctions, including an entry ban, against Defence Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr. was “an unfriendly act” that could further strain relations, while he vowed to continue defending Manila’s interest against Beijing’s aggression. The Chinese…
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President Donald Trump. File | Photo Credit: AP The United States plans to slash the number of fighter jets and warships it provides to NATO in Europe, the New York Times reported on Thursday (June 12, 2026). The reported cutbacks come as European nations race to bolster their defence capacities since Russia’s full-scale invasion of…
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A fire broke out on the 3rd and 4th floors of the Zila Parishad office in the South 24 Parganas division near Alipore court, in Kolkata on June 10, 2026. | Photo Credit: ANI Around 4,000 electronic voting machines (EVMs) were gutted after a government building in Kolkata’s Alipore area that houses the South 24…
The Border Security Force (BSF) and the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) discussed “illegal and forced border crossings”, among other issues, pertaining to the India-Bangladesh border during the three-day Director-General-level talks that concluded on Thursday, a BSF statement said. The 57th Director-General-Level Border Coordination Conference between the border-guarding forces of India and Bangladesh was held in…
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Shares in Elon Musk’s SpaceX jumped 11% to $150 on their first day of trading Friday (June 12, 2026) after the biggest initial public offering in history, making the polarising entrepreneur the world’s first trillionaire as he vowed to take humanity to Mars. The blockbuster operation, which raised more than $75 billion, is expected to…
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Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi. File | Photo Credit: PTI A day after U.S. President Donald Trump backed away from a threatened attack on Iran, claiming progress in talks, Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Friday (June 12, 2026) that Washington and Tehran have “never been closer” to reaching a preliminary agreement. “The Islamabad…
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