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On July 26, a splinter faction of the Niger military overthrew President Mohamed Bazoum, confining him to the presidential palace. While telecommunications infrastructure was still intact, a tweet from the premier’s office claimed Bazoum and family were in good health but were prepared to call upon the National Guard to attack if the rebelling soldiers did not back down.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Nair Service Society(NSS)’s decision to end public protests against the remarks made by Kerala Assembly Speaker A N Shamseer has frustrated the BJP’s plan to pursue its divisive agenda.

Gallows or a prison term seem to be awaiting the men who occupied the seat of power in Pakistan once they are eased or ejected out of it if during their tenure after they have crossed the army's path. As former Prime Minister Imran Khan marks time behind the bars following conviction on a charge of corruption, he may send up a silent prayer that his troubles end with his incarceration and does not lead him the road where death awaited Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto.

China, the world’s largest steelmaker with annual crude steel output of over one billion tonnes, is out to dampen India’s bid to double its production capacity from the present level of 150 million tonnes to 300 mt by 2030 by continuously dumping its ferrous metals on India. China is exporting steel to India like never before as its own home demand wilts. With its domestic steel demand falling in the wake of shrinking construction activities and economic slowdown, China is pushing exports to keep its blast furnaces fully charged. Price discounts and weakening Yuan are helping China to achieve its objectives. Since January, Yuan has depreciated around five percent against US$. Apart from India, China is also banking on its OBOR (One Belt One Road) partners and Chinese project aid receivers in Asia and Africa to offload surplus steel.

Just eight months ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, the BJP is facing the same organisational and political crisis that the Congress faced before the 2014 general elections. However, there’s one very significant difference. While in 2014 the Congress had no support mechanism to fall back upon, this time the BJP has a big helping hand behind it in the RSS.

The waves of Artificial Intelligence (AI) powered job marked disruption is knocking at the door of India, more intensively than any other country of the world, which may soon turn into a nightmare, since India is not yet prepared to face the challenge except producing some of the documents to make the government appear greatly concerned, but actually nearly absent from the ground where AI is in operation uncontrolled.

British-American filmmaker Christopher Nolan's latest film 'Oppenheimer' is creating waves in the cinema halls all over the world, including India, bringing to the fore once again the history behind the making of the atom bomb that was dropped by the Americans on Hiroshima on August 6 and Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. The second world war was ending, Germany had by then surrendered, Hitler had died, and only the Japanese were holding back.

KOLKATA: Recent reports about the number of Nepalese Gorkhas joining mercenary groups like Wagner army of Russia may be exaggerated, but Indian government is still concerned about China making a fresh attempt to recruit them as soldiers.

Wayanad got its Member of Parliament back on Monday, August 7, 2023. The Lok Sabha Secretariat reinstated disqualified Congress MP Rahul Gandhi though there were complaints Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla did not display the same alacrity the Lok Sabha Secretariat had shown when disqualifying Rahul Gandhi after his conviction and sentencing in the Modi surname defamation case. With Rahul Gandhi’s return, the Congress party’s No-Confidence Motion against Prime Minister Narendra Modi gets a significant boost.

New Delhi: HS Prannoy's bid for his second Super 500 title was foiled by China’s Weng Hong Yang who beat the Indian 21-9, 23-21, 22-20 in a thrilling Australian Open Badminton final in Sydney on Sunday.