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Prime Minister Narendra Modi shakes hands with his British counterpart Keir Starmer after Britain’s Secretary of State for Business and Trade, Jonathan Reynolds and Union Minister Piyush Goyal signed a free trade agreement, at Chequers Estate, in U.K.. (X/@narendramodi) The India-UK Free Trade Agreement (FTA) signed on Thursday (July 25, 2025) establishes a modern, forward-looking partnership that would stimulate innovation, ease market access, and foster investment, Sunil Bharti Mittal, Founder & Chairman of Bharti Enterprises and Co-Chair of the India-UK CEO Forum. And the leader of the business delegation from India said.“Businesses in India as well as the UK stand…

The ‘Real American’ Hulk Hogan (Terry Gene Bollea) passed away on July 24 after suffering a cardiac arrest. The wrestler had been battling with bad health since his major four-level Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion (ACDF) surgery. John Cena, Triple-H, The Undertaker, and many more have paid tribute to Hogan, and their social media posts are filled with fans from India expressing their sorrow. Interestingly, Hogan had a weird connection with India, and according to a now retracted report, he visited Chandigarh to watch a wrestling match and meet his ‘good friend,’ the actor and wrestler Sangram Singh. According to…

President Trump took time to tour the headquarters of the Federal Reserve on Thursday — part of a pressure campaign on its chair Jerome Powell. MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: President Trump just got an unusual tour. He donned a hard hat and walked through the headquarters of the Federal Reserve here in Washington. His tour guide – none other than Fed Chairman Jerome Powell, who Trump has been raging against for weeks.(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: And he’s got it wrong. That’s why I call him too late – T O O, too late.KELLY: Trump has also taken issue…

TikTok did not immediately comment [File] | Photo Credit: REUTERS U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said on Thursday that TikTok will have to stop operating in the United States if China does not approve a deal for the sale of the Chinese-owned short video app that is used by some 170 million Americans.Lutnick, speaking on CNBC, also said the United States must control the algorithm that makes the social media platform work.Last month, U.S. President Donald Trump extended by 90 days to September 17 a deadline for China-based ByteDance to divest the U.S. assets of TikTok. Trump’s action took place…

France’s highest court is ruling Friday on whether it can strip the head of state immunity of Bashar Assad, the former leader of Syria now in exile in Russia, because of the brutality of the evidence in accusations against him collected by Syrian activists and European prosecutors.If the judges at the Cour de Cassation lift Assad’s immunity, it could pave the way for his trial in absentia over the use of chemical weapons in Ghouta in 2013 and Douma in 2018, and set a precedent to allow the prosecution of other government leaders linked to atrocities, human rights activists and…

Taiwan’s opposition Kuomintang (KMT) party is in a moment of crisis as nearly two-thirds of its legislators risk losing their posts through a mass referendum. Starting this weekend, voters across 31 districts in Taiwan will weigh in on whether they want to keep or remove their members of parliament. The “Great Recall”, as it has been dubbed locally, is the largest vote of its kind in Taiwan’s history and, depending on the results, could cost the KMT its majority coalition in the country’s legislature. The outcome will set the tone for Taiwan’s domestic politics for the next three years and…

The passport had come in the morning. The trip was booked. The dream was days away.On the night of May 9, Deepesh Agarwal (23) slipped out for a drive with his friends Sanchay Malpani, 22, and Priyanshu Mittal, 23, in his gleaming new Tata coupe, a birthday gift from his parents just five months earlier. They had only just begun paying the EMIs. By dawn, the car and the three young men were reduced to ashes in what is now being called one of the most gruesome crashes this year.The trip to Turkey, planned for May 10–20, was to be…

Indian sports is aspiring to take wings and reach higher levels of excellence in the global arena. The government understands the enormous power of sports, as it aims to project the country’s might by hosting the Olympics, an event that unites the whole world.The new Sports Governance Bill, tabled in Parliament on Wednesday, attempts to cut though the complicated web that has been clutching and holding back Indian sports from realising its full potential. The objective is to ease the path of the young athletes and help them reach global glory.The power of sports is often noticed and understood through…

OpenAI is gearing up to introduce its much-awaited GPT-5 model. While CEO Sam Altman has been hinting at a potential early launch, no reports suggest that the new LLM from OpenAI could arrive as early as August 2025. Reportedly, the new model will be launched along with nano and mini versions and API access for developers. The upcoming AI model has been in the making for a long time and has been delayed multiple times. In February this year, the company introduced GPT-4.5 Orion to ChatGPT Pro users. While the company has launched a number of AI models, the launch…

Software giant Microsoft is at the centre of cybersecurity storm after China-linked hackers exploited flaws in SharePoint servers to target hundreds of organisations.While such cyberattacks are not new, the scale of the onslaught and the speed with which the hackers took advantage of freshly discovered vulnerabilities is fuelling concern.Dutch startup Eye Security warned Saturday of online attacks targeting SharePoint file-sharing servers, with Microsoft quick to confirm the report and release patches to protect systems.The vulnerability allowed hackers to retrieve credentials and then access SharePoint servers kept at users’ facilities, according to Microsoft.Cloud-based SharePoint software was safe from the problem, the…