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Russia fully respects India’s national interests and the independent foreign policy being pursued by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said, asserting that India’s ties with the United States or any other country cannot be a benchmark for New Delhi-Moscow ties.Mr. Lavrov, who addressed the UN General Assembly (UNGA) shortly before External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar’s speech at the high-level General Debate, said India and Russia share a “particularly privileged strategic partnership”. “These situations that might arise between India and the United States or India and any other country, I can’t consider them a criteria for…

Putrajaya, Malaysia – When Malaysia’s former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad turned 100 earlier this year, he marked his birthday by following a lifelong routine of discipline: he ate little, worked a lot, and did not succumb to the lure of rest.“The main thing is that I work all the time. I don’t rest myself,” Mahathir told Al Jazeera.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list“I am always using my mind and body. Keep your mind and body active, then you live longer,” he said.From a desk at his office in Putrajaya city, south of the capital, Kuala Lumpur, he spent…

Italian race organiser says there is high possibility of race disruption due to participation of Israeli team.Published On 28 Sep 202528 Sep 2025Click here to share on social mediashare2ShareThe Israel-Premier Tech cycling team has been excluded from Italy’s upcoming Giro dell’Emilia competition due to concerns over public safety, race organisers said.The decision announced on Saturday comes after the recent Vuelta a Espana cycling race suffered several disruptions by pro-Palestinian protesters who took to the streets of the Spanish capital, Madrid, to block the participation of Israel-Premier Tech, forcing the cancellation of the race’s final stage.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend…

Rajababu, managing director of Sunray Village Resorts, receives the ‘Best Theme Restaurant’ award from Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu in Vijayawada. Photo: Special Arrangement | Photo Credit: Sunray Village Resorts of Bhogapuram in Vizianagaram district got the Best Theme Restaurant award for the year-2025, according to a press release from the Resorts Managing Director Rajababu. Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu presented the award to Mr. Rajababu at a function organised by the State Government on the occasion of World Tourism Day in Vijayawada on Saturday (September 27, 2025). Minister for Tourism Kandula Durgesh, Andhra Pradesh Tourism Development…

Demonstrators march in support of Palestinians in Gaza near the Microsoft Build conference. File | Photo Credit: Reuters The story so far: In August, a joint investigation by The Guardian, +972 Magazine and Local Call revealed that Israel’s military intelligence unit had built a cloud-based surveillance system using Microsoft’s Azure to store audio recordings of Palestinians’ phone calls. Unit 8200, which is considered Israel’s equivalent to the U.S.’s National Security Agency, was reportedly uploading “audio files of millions of calls by Palestinians in the occupied territories” into a dedicated Azure environment. What was Microsoft’s initial response? Microsoft’s initial response downplayed any…

Drug gang suspected in torture and murder of two young women, and a 15-year-old girl, in crime that shocks Argentina.Clashes have erupted between demonstrators and police as thousands protested in Argentina’s capital, Buenos Aires, to demand justice over the torture and killing of two young women and a teenager, which was livestreamed on social media by a purported drug gang.Thousands of protesters took to the streets on Saturday to denounce the killings that shocked Argentinians after it was revealed that the murders were perpetrated live on the Instagram platform and watched by 45 members of a private account, officials said.Recommended…

“Franz Kafka is a parable interpreted and realised in different ways,” said Agnieszka Holland, the grand dame of Polish cinema, whose spirited biopic of one of the most influential and enigmatic figures is making waves on the festival circuit. Echoing Kafka’s concerns about faith and doubt, the biopic seeks to separate the brand Kafka from Franz, whose prophetic depiction of a penal colony and a totalitarian future, written almost two decades before the gas chambers became a reality, has once again become relatable. Speaking to The Hindu on the sidelines of a press conference at the 50th Polish Film Festival, where Franz,…

Between 2000 and 2015, the world’s fight against malaria made remarkable progress, with millions of lives saved through better prevention, diagnosis, and treatment. Of late, however, that momentum has slowed. In 2023 alone, malaria claimed nearly 6 lakh lives, with 95% of those deaths occurring in the African region.India has made dramatic progress too, with malaria cases dropping by over 80% in the last decade, especially in urban and semi-urban areas. However, some districts in Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, and the Northeastern States continue to struggle with persistent transmission.This lingering threat has drawn renewed attention to the mass drug administration (MDA) of…

Pakistan captain Salman Agha with Haris Rauf. | Photo Credit: AP On the eve of Sunday’s Asia Cup final, Pakistan skipper Salman Agha weighed into the handshake row for the first time since it flared up after the group-stage meeting versus India on September 14. After a seven-wicket win in a Group-A fixture, India’s players and support staff had refused to exchange handshakes with the Pakistan contingent. There was no change in India’s stance for the second meeting in the Super Four phase either.“I started playing cricket professionally in 2007 at the under-16 level. I’ve never seen two teams not…

Sam Altman often refrains from making predictions about the future of artificial intelligence (AI), but the OpenAI CEO recently said that with rapid advancements in technology, “superintelligence” might replace around 40 per cent of tasks that we do today. In an interview with the German newspaper Die Welt, Altman discussed several topics, including the development of artificial general intelligence (AGI) and its potential impact on jobs, among other issues. When asked about when superintelligence, or AGI, will be “smarter than humans in all aspects”, Altman said that while GPT5 is already smarter than him and a lot of people, AGI…