Israel’s prime minister has told a memorial for victims of the Hamas-led attack on 7 October 2023 that he is “determined” to secure the return of the dead hostages still inside Gaza, and that the country will continue to fight terrorism with “full force”. Benjamin Netanyahu made the comments hours after Hamas returned the bodies…
Kanchha Sherpa, the last surviving member of the mountaineering team that first reached the summit of Mount Everest, the world’s highest peak, has died in Nepal at the age of 92. The Nepal Mountaineering Association described Kanchha Sherpa as a “historic and legendary figure” who died at his home in Kapan in the Kathmandu district…
A woman shared a video from a sleeper coach as she documented her distressing experience of travelling in an overcrowded train, where men sat on the edges of the berth she got reserved for herself. The clip, shared by Neha on Instagram, showcased glimpses of her journey that turned overwhelming. In the video, recorded from…
Gen Z stars Ananya Panday, Sara Ali Khan, Khushi Kapoor, and Suhana Khan arrived in style at the season’s first celebrity Diwali party, hosted by Manish Malhotra at his Mumbai residence on October 12. The star-studded affair turned into a glamorous fashion parade, setting major festive style goals for the season. For Gen Z, Diwali…
Rishab Shetty ends ‘Kantara: Chapter 1’ exactly where he’s supposed to. Having written the story himself, he doesn’t drag it — instead, he leaves it on a high, building curiosity for yet another part in his successful mythology-action universe. But what really happens at the end of ‘Kantara Chapter 1’? And is there really a…
Actor Ayushmann Khurrana has delivered only two hits in the last six years. His last film, ‘Dream Girl 2’ (2023), collected Rs 106 crore nett in India and emerged as a hit. Before that, his last major success was ‘Bala’ (2019), which earned around Rs 110 crore nett and was declared a super hit. Between…
Trump says the mega-donor, who spent more than $100m to help him win the 2024 US presidential election, ‘loves Israel’. As United States President Donald Trump addressed the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, to celebrate the Gaza ceasefire deal, he saluted American diplomats, generals and regional states involved in the agreement. Miriam Adelson, a pro-Israel mega-donor,…
US President Donald Trump on Friday once again said that India would no longer buy oil from Russia, even as he defended Hungary for continuing its imports. Speaking at the White House during his meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Trump appeared confident that New Delhi had already scaled back its purchases from Moscow. “India…
Antananarivo, Madagascar – On a typical Sunday morning in Mahamasina, a suburb of Madagascar’s capital Antananarivo, Sarobidy Ramarimanana joined the queue at her neighbourhood water point just after sunrise. “I just wanted to fill my jerrycan and go to church,” she told Al Jazeera. “I was about to draw water when people started running; jerrycans…
The United States’s artificial intelligence (AI) investment boom might be an economic bubble that could burst, comparable to the dot-com bust in the early 2000s, according to the International Monetary Fund. The IMF’s chief economist, Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, forecasted that the bust would be less likely to be a systemic event that would crater the US…