New year 2025 LIVE updates: New Zealand and Australia welcomed the New Year 2025 with vibrant celebrations and spectacular fireworks displays. Thousands gathered to witness the dazzling fireworks as the world marked another rotation around the sun, with Auckland leading the way as the first major city to ring in the New Year, followed by…
Last Updated:December 31, 2024, 12:44 IST Suchir Balaji’s mother Poornima Rao said that following the death of her son, the medical examiner did not ask her about his mental state. Suchir Balaji was found dead in his San Francisco apartment earlier this month. The mother of Suchir Balaji, a 26-year-old researcher at OpenAI, said that…
Jeju Air plane crash: South Korea has vowed thorough investigations to find what caused a plane crash that killed 179 people, saying that it would also inspect all Boeing 737-800 aircraft operated by the country’s airlines. Investigators, including officials from South Korea’s Aviation and Railway Accident Investigation Board (ARAIB), US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB)…
South Korean investigators on Tuesday announced that a court has issued an arrest warrant for suspended and impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol in connection with his brief attempt to declare martial law in the country. The Seoul court issued an arrest warrant for Yoon Suk Yeol after investigators sought charges of insurrection and abuse of…
Islamabad, Pakistan – A sharp escalation in hostilities between Pakistan and Afghanistan over the past week has resulted in the death of at least one member of the Pakistani security forces and dozens of civilians in Afghanistan. This latest round of cross-border fighting stems from what Pakistan insisted was its response to regular attacks by the…
Last Updated:December 30, 2024, 11:27 IST Elon Musk had earlier defended the H-1B visas system, however, he has now called for a “major reform” in the system. Elon Musk (Photo: AFP) Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Sunday dubbed the H-1B visa system as “broken” and said that it needed a “major reform”, days after vowing…
Jimmy Carter, the peanut farmer who won the presidency in the wake of the Watergate scandal and Vietnam War, endured humbling defeat after one tumultuous term and then redefined life after the White House as a global humanitarian, has died. He was 100 years old. The longest-lived American President died on Sunday (December 29, 2024),…
Last Updated:December 29, 2024, 21:32 IST A Jeju Air plane crashed in South Korea on Sunday, killing 179 on board. A heartbreaking message that a flyer wrote to a family member moments before the plane crash has surfaced. South Korea plane crash (Photo: Reuters) As the Jeju Air plane tragically crashed in Muan on Sunday,…
Last Updated:December 29, 2024, 15:47 IST Kavelashvili’s inauguration is expected to further escalate months-long pro-EU protests, as demonstrators accused the ruling Georgian Dream party of “stealing” the October general elections. Mikheil Kavelashvili, a far-right leader known for his anti-LGBTQ views, has been sworn in as the President of Georgia. (AFP) Georgia inaugurated a ruling party…
Follow all the updates here: Dec 29, 2024 9:21 PM IST South Korea plane crash live: China’s president expresses shock, offers sympathy to victims South Korea plane crash live: Chinese president Xi Jinping quoted by China’s state broadcaster CCTV, expressing shock about the tragic plane crash that took 179 lives in South Korea. “I express…
