CHENNAI: Girish Mathrubootham announced his decision to step down as the executive chairman of Freshworks, 15 years after he founded the software as a service company. He is exiting the company after retiring from the role and as chairman of the board from December 1 2025, just one and half years after he quit as…
NEW DELHI: The Indian Army on Thursday carried out a swift rescue operation to evacuate two South Korean nationals stranded at 17,000 feet in Ladakh’s Kongmarula Pass.According to the Army’s Fire and Fury Corps, the request for a Casualty Evacuation (Casevac) mission was received at around 8:05pm on September 4. Within 15 minutes, helicopters were…
NEW DELHI: The Kerala unit of Congress has triggered a major political controversy with a now-deleted social media post linking the Centre’s new GST reforms to Bihar. The post on X, which said “Bidis and Bihar start with B. Cannot be considered a sin anymore,” referred to the GST Council’s recent decision to slash the…
BENGALURU: Digantara, an Indian company specialising in space domain awareness, and Japan’s lunar exploration firm ispace announced on Friday that they will work together to build cislunar (between Earth and Moon) situational awareness and domain infrastructure.The announcement was made in Tokyo during the 15th Annual India–Japan Summit, attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Prime…
The Ukrainian term volya is difficult to describe. But ask any Ukrainian and he will tell you that it’s key to Ukraine’s fight against Russia. Volya , somewhat imperfectly, can be translated as the inner will to overcome obstacles and strive for freedom. But it turns out there’s another secret sauce with an Indian connect…
The Donald Trump administration is scrapping the State Department’s current Foreign Service Officer Test (FSOT) and introducing a new version that it says would be strictly “merit-based,” in contrast to what it calls the existing “DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion)-riddled” system.“The Trump Administration is reforming how America recruits its diplomatic corps. That begins with a…
Representational AI image A 59-year-old British woman, wife of a Trump supporter, who has lived legally in the United States for more than three decades, is facing deportation after being detained at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport.Donna Hughes-Brown, originally from England, is the wife of James Brown, a Trump supporter who now says he regrets his…
Samajwadi Party (SP) leader and former party treasurer Kaish Khan was caught hiding in the loft of his house in Kannauj, despite being ordered on July 28 to stay outside the district limits. The incident shows a clear violation of the official order meant to keep him out of the area.The banishment order was formally…
GURGAON: Sentenced to life terms in three murder cases, Haryana’s most wanted gangster who jumped parole and started a new life as owner of a discotheque in Cambodia was landed in jail again after seven years. The dramatic escape story ended tamely this Tuesday when Mainpal Badli was escorted to the custody of the special…
NEW DELHI: US President Donald Trump on Thursday moved Supreme Court challenging a federal court’s ruling that US president is not authorised to impose sweeping tariffs on foreign import. In the appeal submitted to the apex court, Trump justified the sweeping tariffs imposed on India and said that it was a crucial aspect for his…
