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Khawaja Asif recently said Pakistan received record-number of orders for JF-17 fighter jets after military escalation with India after Operation Sindoor. Pakistan’s defence minister Khawaja Asif has said that the flare-up with India during the latter’s Operation Sindoor in May 2025 has pushed the sales of Chinese-origin JF-17 Thunder jets to “a record high”. He claimed that if the trend continues Islamabad may no longer require bailouts from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) after six months. “Our aircraft have been tested, and we are receiving so many orders that Pakistan may not need the International Monetary Fund in six months,”…

Annamalai’s name twisted by Raj Thackeray to ‘rasmalai’ over his remark that Mumbai is global city, not just of Maharashtra; he hits back. BJP leader K Annamalai from Tamil Nadu has landed squarely in the middle of election rhetoric in Mumbai, where the municipal election campaigns have turned into a contest over who’s a true citizen and who’s an outsider to India’s financial capital. Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Aaditya Thackeray said on Monday that Annamalai’s statements show his party “only wants to insult and loot” Mumbai and Maharashtra. “Annamalai is the face of the BJP, which is ‘zero’. He could…

Temperatures in the plains, including in the national capital, have dipped below those in hilly areas such as Shimla. Several parts of northern India will continue to face freezing temperatures as the India Meteorological Department has issued a cold wave warning for the next couple of days in areas including Delhi and the National Capital Region, besides Haryana, Punjab, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, and Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh, as per official information on Sunday. In the bulletin issued on Sunday, January 11, the IMD said that cold wave to severe cold wave conditions are very likely at isolated places over Himachal…

The accused is the woman’s neighbour and lives with his mother. Police said the crime stemmed from his ‘obsession’ with the woman. What was initially considered to be an accident — death caused by suffocation due to the fire in the apartment — has turned out to be a case of murder in Bengaluru. An 18-year-old man has been held for the alleged killing of a 34-year-old software engineer. The accused has been identified as 18-year-old Karnal Kurai, originally a resident of Kerala. He is the neighbour of the deceased woman and lives with his single mother. The victim had…

Gor takes oath as Ambassador with a classic song, and a promise that “real friends can disagree but always resolve their differences in the end”. Sergio Gor formally took charge on Monday as the new US ambassador to India and special envoy to South and Central Asia during a ceremony at the US Embassy in New Delhi. Among a swarm of crowds, what stood out is his unique entry, especially in context of what he said thereafter on the Trump-Modi equation. As Gor walked up to the podium to take the oath of office on the 1966 soul classic ‘Hold…

Pitches used to attract men were ‘Playboy Service,’ and ‘cheap loan services’; they were asked for registration fee, hotel tariffs, with lure of eventual payout. “Impregnate a childless woman and get paid in lakhs” — this offer trapped several men from across India before they could realise that they were being scammed. Police in Bihar’s Nawada district have now busted the gang. The offer was seemingly straightforward, promising financial reward in exchange for having sex with childless women and impregnating them, along with offering fake jobs and cheap loans. Hundreds of men from across the country fell prey to the…

Earlier this week, Carney remarked that sovereignty of Greenland, Denmark should be respected, however, he made no mention of Trump’s past threats to Canada. After United States President Donald Trump’s military action on Venezuela — in which American forces “captured” the country’s President Nicolas Maduro and his wife to put them on trial in New York — and his continued threats to Denmark over Greenland, Trump’s past remarks on his desire to annex Canada have made a fear-inducing comeback in the country. Among viral arguments around Trump’s threat to “make Canada the 51st state of the US”, is a column…

Asked about Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s cryptic remarks hinting that Putin could be next after Maduro’s seizure, Trump gave a direct reply. US President Donald Trump on Friday played down suggestions that Washington could launch a dramatic operation against Russian President Vladimir Putin similar to the raid that led to the capture of Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro, saying such a move was “not necessary” even as he voiced deep disappointment over the Ukraine war. Asked about Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s cryptic remarks hinting that Putin could be next after Maduro’s seizure, Trump told reporters, “I don’t think it’s going to be…

The strikes caused major power outages, while European leaders condemned the escalation of aggression amidst worsening US-Russia relations. At least four people were killed and 25 were injured in Kyiv as Russia on Friday bombed Ukraine with hundreds of drones and missiles in a large-scale overnight attack. Over the last four years of war-torn situations, this was the second time that the country used a powerful, new hypersonic missile that struck western Ukraine, in what is being seen as a warning to Kyiv’s NATO allies and the West. Russia’s move comes just a few days after relations between Moscow and…

Soon after the murder, the police started looking for Mukesh, whose car was found abandoned on the Betwa river bridge, with its fog lights on and the door open. The mystery surrounding the murder of Anita Chaudhary, Jhansi’s first woman auto-rickshaw driver, ended on Saturday after police arrested the prime accused, unearthing a tale of love and betrayal. Anita Choudhary, 45, was found dead, her body soaked in blood near the Station Road in Jhansi under the Navabad police station limits, around 2.30 am on Monday. She had left home for work at around 9.30 pm on Sunday, January 4,…