October 28, 2025
  • October 28, 2025

Sri Lanka allows docking of Chinese ‘spy’ ship

by on August 13, 2022 0

Sri Lanka granted port access Saturday for a controversial Chinese research vessel despite neighbouring India’s concerns that it could spy on New Delhi’s military installations, officials said. The Yuan Wang 5 is described as a research and survey vessel by international shipping and analytics sites, but it is said to be a dual-use spy...

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Bollywood stars with huge fees and weak content

by on August 13, 2022 0

Keeping in line with the the dismal performance of Bollywood movies at the box office in the post pandemic era, both Aamir Khan and Akshay Kumar’s festive releases ‘Laal Singh Chaddha’ and ‘Raksha Bandhan’ opened to collections lower than expected. In fact, ‘Laal Singh Chaddha’ brought in the lowest collection for Aamir in 13...

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‘That attack could occur in US indicative of threat to writers’

by on August 13, 2022 0

The attack on Salman Rushdie, given assailant Hadi Matar’s purported Iranian sympathies, immediately took on geopolitical colours, coming as it did just days after the Biden administration’s justice department charged a member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of trying to orchestrate the assassination of former national security adviser John Bolton.

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J&K admin sacks kin of Hizbul Mujahideen chief, JKLF leader

by on August 13, 2022 0

The Jammu & Kashmir administration has dismissed the son of Hizbul Mujahideen chief and most-wanted terrorist Syed Salahuddin as well as wife of JKLF leader and terror accused Bitta Karate, both employed in its two different departments, over alleged terror links. Two other senior academics working at Kashmir University were also shown the door,...

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US says ‘India hid Russian origin of shipped fuel’

by on August 13, 2022 0

The United States has expressed concern to India that it was being used to export fuel made from Russian crude, through high-seas transfers to hide its origin, to New York in violation of US sanctions. The US treasury department has claimed that an Indian ship picked up oil from a Russian tanker on the...

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