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Reserve Bank of India's gold reserves parked overseas dropped to a six-year low at the end of March — 47% of total. This is the lowest since it started accumulating the precious metal in December 2017. Data shows that the RBI started bringing the gold to India in March 2022, coinciding with the start of the Russia-Ukraine war. This is in line with the trend of central banks globally that have turned cautious after the US government froze Russian foreign currency assets as the conflict began in February 2022.

The Washington Post says that Robert Winnett, who had been named to take over the organization's core newsroom functions later this year, will not take the job after all

The U.K. general election is nearly two weeks away

Taylor Swift fans enjoy parsing the singer-songwriter’s lyrics for references to her romantic life and insights into her state of her mind

An aerial drone likely launched by Yemen’s Houthi rebels struck and damaged a vessel in the Red Sea

viral video on Instagram has captured the attention of Indian consumers, shedding light on the staggering prices of Indian groceries in London. Chavi Agarwal, a Delhi native currently residing in London, took her Instagram followers on a virtual tour of an Indian grocery store in the British capital, revealing price discrepancies that left many astounded.

Netanyahu told his Cabinet on Sunday that there had been a «dramatic drop» in U.S. weapons deliveries for Israel's war effort in Gaza, doubling down on a claim that the Biden administration has denied and underscoring the growing strains between the two allies. Netanyahu told his Cabinet that the drop had occurred four months ago, without specifying which weapons, saying only that «certain items arrived sporadically but the munitions at large remained behind.» The spat highlights how high tensions have surged between Israel and Washington over the war in Gaza, particularly surrounding the Israeli military's conduct in the beleaguered territory and the harm to civilian life there. President Joe Biden has delayed delivering certain heavy bombs since May over those concerns, but his administration fought back last week against Netanyahu's charges that other shipments had also been affected.

Stock Market News: Profit-booking took centre stage on Friday's session, prompting the domestic benchmark indices, the Nifty 50 and Sensex, to give up early morning gains and remain in the negative throughout the day's trading.Market experts noted that the market breadth too favoured the bears as only 18 stocks in Nifty 50 marched higher against 32 stocks which slid down. Interestingly, in broader markets, Nifty MidCap 50 finished slightly above the dotted lines.

Manchester Airport faced cancellations and severe delays on Sunday after a power cut in the area caused widespread disruption, an airport spokesperson said. A significant number of flights, particularly from Terminals 1 and 2, were expected to be delayed or cancelled, the spokesperson said.

the sinking this week of the ship Tutor, which marked what appears to be a new escalation by the Iranian-backed Houthis in their campaign of strikes on ships in the vital maritime corridor over the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip. Meanwhile, the U.S. military ordered the USS Dwight D.

DWI arrest. It had been a difficult week for him, he said to the United Center crowd. He praised his supporters for staying by him while acknowledging that he might be hard to love at times. Timberlake said that he had gone through highs and lows in life with his followers, as reported by 'Page Six.' The 43-year-old singer said during his most recent arrest that he was concerned the traffic stop would «ruin the tour.» He is currently traveling to more than 50 cities as part of his Forget Tomorrow World Tour, which began on April 29 in Vancouver, British Columbia. Will legal issues impact Justin Timberlake's tour? The ongoing tour by Justin Timberlake won't be impacted by the legal matter, an insider from the music industry told 'Page Six' on Thursday. According to the insider, Timberlake will continue to promote «Everything I Thought It Was» as originally planned, which includes going on his scheduled tour.

Reform UK's top leader Nigel Farage, in an interview with BBC, had claimed that the West had somehow 'provoked' Vladimir Putin to go into war against the Ukraine, a statement that has received severe criticism from leaders like Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer, says an Evening Standard report.

Nigel Farage, the leader of Britain's right-wing Reform UK party, said the eastward of expansion of the European Union and NATO had provoked Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine. The remarks, made in an interview with the BBC aired late on Friday, drew strong criticism across the British political spectrum ahead of a July 4 election in which Farage's party is predicted to win millions of votes.

Let’s start with World Peace. For long, its proponents have looked down upon the plebeian influences of football. There is an honest intent to change that. This Euro continues with the previous one’s emotion of loving thy enemy. Germany's Antonio Rudiger played a good host by scoring one for the opponents.

These documents, a few of which are being reprinted for our readers, reveal a series of letters exchanged between the British Olympic Association, the International Olympic Committee and the India Office, discussing the prospects of Indian participation at the 1912 Olympics. Had this participation happened, India would have been among the first Asian countries to embrace the Olympic movement, alongside Japan, which established a national Olympic Committee in 1911 before participating in the 1912 competition.

ethnic wear,’ I reach for the nearest clothes hangar. Being in a garments store recently, a hangar was, indeed, close at hand. But I refrained from hooking someone with it simply because, the shop being in Khan Market, it was impossible for me to distinguish between customers and the store’s employees. It may have been a close call for at least one member of India’s thriving retail industry. But the term ‘ethnic wear’ pisses me off no end. What ‘ethnic wear’? I know that you know that I know what it means — sari, salwar kameez, choli, sherwani, bandhgala, Khan suit…. Like light, I know ‘ethnic wear’ when I see it. But for a voluble section of the country — which, in its continued quest to be a nation of virtue-signallers, recently took to the ludicrous binary of ‘India’ and ‘Bharat’ in English, thereby quietly emphasising the perceived dowdiness of the latter against the perceived spunkiness of the former — their perfunctory use of the term ‘ethnic wear’ sounds not just preposterous, but downright embarrassing. ‘Ethnic,’ as an adjective, merely denotes belonging to an ethnicity, a population group or subgroup sharing a common genetic descent and/or cultural background. So ‘Germanic’ is as good a description of ‘ethnic’ as ‘Hispanic’ or ‘Indian’ and ‘Western’ or ‘Nordic’. And yet, somehow, you enter a store — here in India — and there’s a section devoted to ‘ethnic wear’. In India.

Taylor Swift and music enthusiasts now have a compelling reason to tune in to a new docuseries that delves into the infamous feud between Taylor Swift and record executive Scooter Braun. The two-part documentary, "Taylor Swift vs Scooter Braun: Bad Blood," offers an in-depth exploration of the public and private battles that erupted after Braun acquired the rights to Swift’s first six albums in 2019. This move sparked a contentious dispute, as Swift was not given an opportunity to buy back her music, leading to widespread controversy, as per a report by Pinkvilla… Here’s how you can watch this intriguing series.

Victoria Beckham and David Beckham have frequently been dishonest to each other over their turbulent 25-year marriage. While "The House of Beckham," a new book by British writer Tom Bower, lists multiple alleged relationships David had, it doesn't offer much new information about the well-known pair, but there are some surprising revelations, as reported by 'Page Six.'

A large chunk of the world's wealth today is locked in illiquid assets, therefore they are typically traded at a discount. 

Brief Encounter, I really do. But if it came down to that or the other black-and-white British romance from 1945, I’d choose Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s I Know Where I’m Going every time.

Tata Steel Ltd may shut down its blast furnaces in the UK earlier than what it had initially planned amid a certain section of its workers planning an indefinite strike to protest against 2,800 job losses. Tata Steel, which has the capacity to produce 3 million tonne of steel each year in UK, plans to shut down one blast furnace at the end of the month, while the second one is scheduled to be closed at the end of September. “Our existing steelmaking assets are near the end of their life, are operationally unstable and causing unsustainable losses of £1 million a day,” Tata Steel said in a statement.