Billionaire Elon Musk has completed his USD 44 billion takeover of Twitter and fired the social media company’s four top executives, including CEO Parag Agrawal and legal executive Vijaya Gadde.The New York Times said that Musk, the world’s richest man, closed the deal to buy Twitter. Citing people with knowledge of the situation, the report […]
Elon Musk posted a video showing him strolling into Twitter headquarters ahead of a Friday deadline to close his $44 billion deal to buy the company.Musk also changed his Twitter profile to refer to himself as “Chief Twit” and his location as Twitter headquarters, which is based in San Francisco. The video showed him carrying […]
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Sunday told the 20th Communist Party Congress that the country has gained full control over Hong Kong and turned it from chaos to governance, according to Reuters news agency.Delivering a report to the twice-a-decade party meeting in Beijing, Xi said China has also waged a major struggle against Taiwan separatism […]
At least 200 rotting corpses were found on the roof of a hospital in Pakistan’s Multan city on Saturday. As per social media, hundreds of human body parts have been recovered from the roof of Nishtar Hospital’s mortuary in Multan after which the government decided to probe the incident, reported Geo News. According to sources, […]
BA.4.6, a subvariant of the omicron Covid variant which has been quickly gaining traction in the US, is now confirmed to be spreading in the UK. The latest briefing document on Covid variants from the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) noted that during the week beginning August 14, BA.4.6 accounted for 3.3 per cent of […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Narendra Modi will meet on the sidelines of the SCO Summit in Uzbekistan this week and discuss issues of strategic stability, the situation in the Asia Pacific region and bilateral cooperation within the UN and G20, the Kremlin has announced.Putin and Modi will attend the 22nd meeting of […]
Queen Elizabeth II, the longest-serving monarch in British history died on Thursday. She was 96. Buckingham Palace announced her death in a statement, triggering 10 days of national mourning. “The Queen died peacefully at Balmoral this afternoon,” Buckingham Palace said. “The King and The Queen Consort will remain at Balmoral this evening and will return […]
Joining the people of India to honour the country’s democratic journey, US President Joe Biden on Sunday said the two nations are indispensable partners.“As people around the world, including nearly four million (40 lakh) proud Indian-Americans, celebrate the 75th anniversary of India’s independence on August 15, the United States joins the people of India to […]
China has put a hold on a proposal by the US and India at the United Nations to blacklist Abdul Rauf Azhar, the brother of Jaish-e Mohammed (JEM) chief Masood Azhar and a senior leader of the Pakistan-based terror organisation.Abdul Rauf Azhar, born in 1974 in Pakistan, was sanctioned by the US in December 2010. […]
Chinese and Taiwanese warships played high-seas “cat and mouse” on Sunday ahead of the scheduled end of four days of unprecedented Chinese military exercises launched in reaction to a visit to Taiwan by the U.S. house speaker. Nancy Pelosi’s visit last week to the self-ruled island infuriated China, which responded with test launches of ballistic […]