Google did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment [File] | Photo Credit: REUTERS The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau discontinued its order designating the supervision of Alphabet’s Google Payment Corp., reversing a Biden-era decision to monitor the nonbank financial platform, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday. The supervision of Google Payment would be “an…
Devotees carrying ‘Kalasa’ during a procession during the Sri Modakondamma Jatara at Paderu in Alluri Sitharama Raju district. The festival will be organised on on May 11, 12 and 13 this year. | Photo Credit: File Photo The Alluri Sitharama Raju district administration has started making elaborate arrangements for ‘Sri Modakondamma Jatara’, scheduled to…
Karnataka is one of the eight States in the country that has achieved the Sustainable Development Goal target set by the United Nations of reaching an MMR of 70 per lakh live births by 2030. | Photo Credit: File Photo Karnataka’s Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) has declined by six points from 69 per lakh live…
Quick Reads Summary is AI generated, newsroom reviewed. India launched retaliatory operations against Pakistan after air strikes and drone attacks on its border areas. Tensions between the two countries have escalated further after a deadly terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam last month. Jammu: India started retaliatory operations, sources said, after Pakistan escalated hostilities…
Cardinal Robert Prevost, a long-time missionary in Latin America, was elected as the surprise choice to be the new leader of the Catholic Church on Thursday, becoming the first U.S. pope and taking the name Leo XIV. Pope Leo appeared on the central balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica after white smoke billowed from a chimney…
New Delhi: India on Thursday evening thwarted Pakistan’s attempts at targeting 15 places in the country amid rising tension between the two countries, a fallout of the terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pathankot on April 22 that killed 26 people, mostly tourists. After the escalation by Pakistan, the India Navy has started a retaliatory…
Trump called on Thursday for a 30-day unconditional ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine. Washington: U.S. President Donald Trump called on Thursday for a 30-day unconditional ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine and said that both countries will be held accountable for the “sanctity of these direct negotiations.” Trump said in a social media post: “If the…
Operation Sindoor Live Updates: The Indian armed forces foiled fresh attempts by the Pakistani military to target northern and western cities using drones and missiles on Thursday evening, sources said. Source link
Rajouri: Rajouri, once a well-known pit-stop in Buddhist journeys and mentioned in ancient texts, is now a district where families shelter behind faith and sandbags. Schools in Rajouri are closed – not because they were destroyed, but because it is no longer safe for children to sit in classrooms as shelling from across the border…
Neelum Jhelum Hydropower Project in Nausari, about 40 km from Muzaffarabad. | Photo Credit: AFP Pakistan’s allegation that India had targeted the Neelum-Jhelum hydroelectric project in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) is an “absolute and complete fabrication”, Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri said on Thursday, suggesting that Pakistan was attempting to use the claim as a “pretext” to…
