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A cafe in China’s Sichuan province is making waves for serving a pork intestine latte, blending coffee with braised pork intestine liquid. A café in Jiangyou, a city in China’s southwestern Sichuan province, launched an unusual coffee blend made with cooked pork intestines. The drink, which has quickly caught public attention, is a latte infused with pork intestine liquid and chitterlings. The coffee sells for 32 yuan (approximately US$4) per cup and promises a layered experience with three distinct taste levels – entrance, mid, and high. According to the café’s owner, Zhang Yuchi, the higher the level, the stronger the…

NATO chief Rutte on Wednesday gave Trump the nickname ‘Daddy’ and said he sometimes has to sometimes ‘use strong language’. US President Donald Trump, long known for his unhinged, combative style and controversial remarks, was given a new title at the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) summit on Wednesday — “Daddy” — by NATO secretary general Mark Rutte. The nickname was candidly assigned to Trump during light-hearted banter between the two leaders ahead of what had been anticipated as a tense summit. Donald Trump once again compared the conflict between Iran and Israel to unruly children. “They’ve had a big…

Zohran Mamdani met his Syrian-born artist wife Rama Duwaji on the dating app Hinge.  Zohran Mamdani is all set to become the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York City after the 33-year-old’s opponent, Andrew Cuomo, conceded within hours of the polls closing. As Mamdani garnered the majority of the votes, his wife Rama Duwaji stood by him, supporting him. The Indian-American lawmaker took to X to announce his victory, “In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done. My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it. I am honoured to…

According to the report, if Pakistan does make or acquire such a weapon, the country would be viewed as a nuclear adversary by the US. Pakistan is developing a nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) that could reach the United States, according to a report published in Washington. According to the report by ‘Foreign Affairs’, if Pakistan does make or acquire such a weapon, the country would be viewed as a nuclear adversary by the US. The report comes amid buzz that Islamabad was looking to upgrade its nuclear arsenal with support from China after India launched Operation Sindoor last month.…

The US military had deployed its B-2 stealth bombers to drop bunker-buster bombs on the three nuclear facilities in Iran – Natanz, Fordow, and Isfahan. In what is probably the first admission of the impact of the US strikes, Iran’s foreign ministry on Tuesday said that its nuclear facilities have been “badly damaged” by the American attack. The Iranian foreign ministry’s spokesman, Esmail Baghaei, confirmed on Wednesday, “Our nuclear installations have been badly damaged, that’s for sure.” However, he refused to go into any further detail about the damage or the status of the nuclear facilities. The US military had…

The wreckage will be in custody of the the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB), which is investigating the June 12 Ahmedabad plane crash. The process of shifting the wreckage of the Air India plane, that crashed on June 12 on a medical college hostel in Ahmedabad, to the airport premises here was still on for the third day, officials said on Tuesday. The Gujarat police on Sunday started moving the wreckage on trucks from the crash site in Meghaninagar to GUJSAIL (Gujarat State Aviation Infrastructure Company Limited) building, which is in the airport premises. The ill-fated plane’s tail fin, which…

India, South Africa exchange agreements in domain of submarine cooperation. New Delhi, India and South Africa have exchanged two agreements in the domain of submarine cooperation during a key meeting in Johannesburg as both sides sought to further strengthen bilateral defence ties, according to the defence ministry. Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh led an Indian delegation to South Africa for the 9th Joint Defence Committee meeting held in Johannesburg on June 23 and 24, the ministry said in a statement on Tuesday. The delegation from South Africa was headed by Acting Secretary for Defence, South Africa, Thobekile Gamede. The first…

The defence ministry said that this decision marks a shift from the earlier system wherein instructions/orders pertaining to two or more services were issued by each service separately. Defence minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday authorised the chief of defence staff (CDS) General Anil Chauhan, who also heads the department of military affairs, to issue “joint instructions and joint orders” for the three services, a step aimed at boosting jointness in the armed forces. “This marks a shift from the earlier system wherein instructions/orders pertaining to two or more services were issued by each service separately,” the defence ministry said, calling…

The deadline for non-audit cases is extended to September 15, 2025, while self-assessment tax payments are due by July 31, 2025. The Income Tax Department of India has offered an Excel-based offline utility for filing Income Tax Return-1 (Sahaj) and Income Tax Return-4 (Sugam) for the assessment year 2025-26, i.e the financial year 2024-25. Under this newly introduced utility, employees, pensioners, freelancers, and small business owners will be able to validate their returns by creating a JSON file, uploading to the e-filing portal, and hence, prepare their income tax returns, even without internet access. According to the official website, this…

The list includes drone detection & interdiction systems, low-level lightweight radars, very short-range air defence systems & remotely piloted aerial vehicles. The defence ministry has signed a raft of contracts worth almost ₹2,000 crore through the emergency procurement route to boost the Indian Army’s readiness in counter-terrorism operations in Jammu and Kashmir, with some of these deals concluded after the recent four-day military confrontation with Pakistan under Operation Sindoor, officials aware of the matter said on Tuesday. The weapons and systems ordered include integrated drone detection and interdiction systems, low-level lightweight radars, very short-range air defence systems and remotely piloted…