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War response to unacceptable threat, fight inevitable: Vladimir Putin

At Victory Day speech, says troops fighting for motherland but makes no major announcement

Sri Lanka PM Mahinda Rajapaksa steps down; MP, 4 others killed in clashes

Houses of legislator, former minister set on fire in curfew-bound nation

Sri Lanka president's brother quits as PM in escalating economic crisis

Sri Lankan authorities on Monday imposed a nationwide curfew and Army troops were deployed in the capital

Anti-encroachments drive begins in Shaheen Bagh; locals continue protest

As per latest reports, a JCB bulldozer and around 2-3 trucks have reached the spot to collect the debris that may accumulate after the demolition

Domestic LPG cylinder price hiked by Rs 50 from today; to cost Rs 999.50

With the new revision, the cooking gas cylinder will now retail at Rs 999.50 in Delhi.

Low-pressure area near South Andaman Sea to cause cyclonic storm by Sunday

The Andaman and Nicobar Islands administration has been asked to completely suspend fishing and tourism activities and for communities

Sri Lanka again put under state of emergency as economic crisis continues

Sri Lanka's government has been facing a wave of protests around the country with an increasingly furious public demanding its resignation.

Elon Musk secures over $7-bn funding in new financing for Twitter buy

Expected to serve as temporary Twitter CEO

US apex court to strike down law legalising abortion, says report

Politico said it obtained the initial draft majority opinion, which was signed by Justice Samuel Alito

Gold prices slip more than 2% to a near three-month low; oil falls

Oil also declined as China's measures to curb Covid-19 threatened a further hit to fuel demand

'Hire me': Star Trek star, others ping Elon Musk for jobs at Twitter

'Hire me to run Twitter as VP of Product,' tweeted Nikita Bier, co-founder of a positivity-focused polling app called tbh that was acquired by Meta Platforms

Qantas places buy orders to revive plan for world's longest direct flight

The airline said on Monday it's buying 12 A350-1000s that can fly non-stop from Australia to any city in the world

European Union set to ban Russian oil, ministers hold crisis talks on gas

The UN human rights office said on Monday that the death toll of civilians killed in Ukraine since the start of the Russian invasion on February 24 had exceeded 3,000 people

India's power consumption grows 13.6% to 132.98 billion units in April

Experts opined that the power demand and consumption would show robust growth in the coming months as the states have lifted almost all local restrictions after a decline in the positivity rate

PMI manufacturing rises to 54.7 in April on robust demand, factory orders

International demand also jumped robustly to a 9-month high after contracting in March and domestic demand was above average.

Parts of India have hottest April in 122 years; no respite forecast in May

The heatwave could affect agriculture by lowering yields of several standing crops in Punjab, Haryana and West Uttar Pradesh.

India braces for sharp rise in edible oil rates, but spike could be short

Indonesia has banned palm oil exports, but it has to liquidate stockpile and demand could be met from other sources.

Ukraine war: Germany says now ready to stop buying Russian oil

In Germany, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Thursday that preparations to limit Germany's exposure to Russian energy imports were underway even before President Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine

Rainbow Medicare IPO subscribed 55% on second day of issue

The institutional portion was subscribed by 10 per cent, the retail investor portion by 82 per cent

Campus Activewear IPO subscribed 51.75 times as brokerages recommend buy

The company had fixed a price band of Rs 278-292 per share in the IPO