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Russia accuses popular messaging apps of facilitating crime and sabotage as Moscow’s online restrictions tighten amid war in Ukraine.Russia has announced restrictions on voice calls made on the WhatsApp and Telegram messaging apps, the latest moves by Moscow to tighten its control over the internet.The curb on calls is set to impact WhatsApp’s estimated 96 million monthly users in Russia and Telegram’s more than 89 million users, according to Russian media monitoring service Mediascope.In a statement on Wednesday, Russia’s media and internet regulator, Roskomnadzor, justified the measure as necessary for fighting crime.“According to law enforcement agencies and numerous appeals from…

YSRCP president Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy. | Photo Credit: The Hindu TDP MLC Bhumireddy Ramagopal Reddy has accused the YSRCP president and former Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy of attempting to cobble up a pact with the Congress.Addressing the media here on Wednesday (August 13, 2025), Mr. Reddy maintained that Mr. Jagan was sending former Minister and his close confidant Botcha Satyanarayana regularly to New Delhi to meet Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and discuss arrangements for a formal tie up.“Is it not true that Mr. Satyanarayana is meeting Jagan at Yelahanka palace in Bengaluru every week and flying to New Delhi from…

On a crisp night in the late 1920s, Edwin Hubble stood in the dome of the 100-inch Hooker telescope at Mount Wilson Observatory, high above the smog and streetlamps of Los Angeles. Through that giant eye, he measured the light from distant “spiral nebulae” — what we now call galaxies — and found something remarkable. Their light was shifted toward the red end of the spectrum, a sign that they were racing away from us. It was as if the universe itself were stretching.When light from a moving source is stretched to longer wavelengths, we call it redshift — much…

U.S. President Donald Trump. File | Photo Credit: Reuters U.S. President Donald Trump made strong claims about the state of crime in Washington, DC, stating that the city has one of the highest homicide rates in the world, surpassing several notoriously violent countries. In a post on his social media platform ‘Truth Social,’ Mr. Trump wrote, “But now, DC is back under Federal Control where it belongs. The White House is in charge. The Military and our Great Police will liberate this City, scrape away the filth, and make it safe, clean, habitable and beautiful once more!.” Earlier during a…

The United States has announced it is revoking the visas of Brazilian, African and Caribbean officials over their ties to Cuba’s programme that sends doctors abroad, which Washington has described as “forced labour”.The US named two Brazilian Ministry of Health officials, Mozart Julio Tabosa Sales and Alberto Kleiman, who have had their visas revoked for working on Brazil’s Mais Medicos, or “More Doctors” programme, which was created in 2013.In a statement on Wednesday, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said sanctions were imposed on officials “involved in abetting the Cuban regime’s coercive labour export scheme”, which he claimed “enriches the…

A higher rate of stillbirth was also found in districts where pregnant women were anaemic (deficient in iron) and underweight — factors known to increase risk of adverse birth outcomes, including stillbirth |Photograph used for representational purpose only | Photo Credit: File Photo Over six in every one thousand deliveries in India in 2020 could have been a stillbirth, with higher rates among urban mothers compared to rural, according to an analysis of data from national surveys and the civil registration system.Researchers, including those from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Gorakhpur, and the Indian Council of Medical Research,…

Seattle’s famous drizzle feels like an afterthought when you’re soaking up the view from aboard a sailing hot tub, and the dampness barely registers while looking up at a spectacular waterfall from an Indigenous cultural center. Getting outdoors all year round—and in any weather—is part of the culture in a city where gardens of colorful glass, giant wooden trolls, and world-class sculptures complement lush parks and tree-lined streets. Puget Sound panoramas unfold all around, from the top of the remodeled Space Needle, to the Marketfront Pavilion addition to iconic Pike Place Market to a ferry ride across Elliott Bay (usually…

Mass outcry from aid groups as Israel continues to block millions of dollars in aid supplies to starving Palestinians.More than 100 aid groups have accused Israel of obstructing life-saving aid from entering Gaza, resulting in vast quantities of relief supplies remaining stranded in warehouses across Jordan and Egypt as more Palestinians starve.Aid trucks have massed on Gaza’s borders amid Israel’s blockade of the famine-stricken territory, and new rules are being used by Israel to deny the entry of food, medicine, water and temporary shelters, the groups said in a joint statement released on Thursday.“Despite claims by Israeli authorities that there…

In a global cloud infrastructure market valued at over $330 billion and dominated by a handful of hyperscalers, Lenovo is forging a distinct and strategic path. Rather than clashing head-on with giants like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, and Google Cloud, the company’s Infrastructure Solutions Group (ISG) is positioning itself as the indispensable foundational partner for a new era of hybrid, AI-driven computing, according to Amit Luthra, Managing Director for Lenovo ISG in India.“Cloud is the form of the way IT is consumed,” Mr. Luthra said. “Our strategy is to work with the complete ecosystem of the cloud—from hyperscalers and local…

Here’s a picture of what life looked like at the turn of the millennium: We couldn’t stop gossiping about the extramarital affairs of the scandal-ridden president of the United States; we rented movies from Blockbuster and showed off our vast CD collections; we waited patiently for modems to connect us to the internet (and hoped that no one had to use the phone at the same time). We had no idea what the future would bring — how could we?Now that it’s 2025, it seems like a good moment to take stock of what the last 25 years have actually…