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Lidia Thorpe shouted anti-colonial slogans at King Charles during his visit to the Australian parliament on Monday, shocking assembled lawmakers and other dignitaries. «Give us our land back! Give us what you stole from us!» Thorpe screamed in an almost minute-long diatribe, after the 75-year-old king's speech. «This is not your land, you are not my king,» the independent lawmaker said, decrying what she described as a «genocide» of Indigenous Australians by European settlers.

standard operating procedure (SOP) for negotiating its free trade agreements (FTA) and address new issues — labour, environment, digital services, gender and indigenous peoples and has temporarily paused some new trade pacts. Officials said a review of India’s trade pact with the UAE in two years after it came into force and a rise in sustainability measures being imposed by the US and the EU, have led the government to develop a new FTA strategy. These guidelines will be based on reciprocity and stronger rules of origin to prevent Chinese products entering India by misusing any of the trade pacts. “The SOPs are almost ready and we will go to Cabinet for its approval,” said an official. The SOPs assume significance as India is negotiating trade pacts with the UK, the EU, Peru, Oman, Chile and a comprehensive trade deal with Australia.

Many Cubans are waiting in anguish as electricity on much of the island has yet to be totally restored days after a blackout

The defense ministers of Japan, the U.K. and Italy have agreed to accelerate the joint development of a next-generation fighter jet

Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto has announced his Cabinet hours after he was inaugurated

flue gas desulphurisation (FGD) units at public sector coal-based power plants as a recent study found that sulphur dioxide emissions from Indian coal-based power plants were not adversely impacting ambient air quality. Niti Aayog, the government's premier think-tank, has held stakeholder consultations in this regard and is likely to recommend this in its final report by month end, officials said. The Aayog had made such a suggestion in a draft report, after which intensive consultations were carried out before firming up the view, they said.

civil aviation ministry on Sunday said as many as 601 routes and 71 airports have been operationalised under the regional air connectivity scheme UDAN, which was introduced eight years ago. UDAN (Ude Desh ka Aam Nagrik) is aimed at enhancing regional air connectivity and making flying more affordable. In a release, the ministry said 601 routes, including helicopter routes, have been operationalised, and that around 28 per cent of these routes serve the remotest locations. «A total of 86 aerodromes — comprising 71 airports, 13 heliports, and 2 water aerodromes — have been operationalised, facilitating the travel of over 1.44 crore passengers across more than 2.8 lakh flights,» it added.

Trudeau had wrecked bilateral political ties. Both countries on Monday ordered out six diplomats in tit-for-tat moves over Ottawa's allegations that New Delhi was targeting Indian dissidents on Canadian soil. Trudeau specifically tied the six to the murder of Sikh separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar last year in British Columbia. Sanjay Kumar Verma, India's envoy to Canada, told CTV that Trudeau had been relying on intelligence rather than evidence.

Russia's top diplomat has said that his country believes that India, Brazil and African countries should be represented in the UN Security Council on a permanent basis to ensure the representativeness of the global majority, state-owned TASS news agency reported on Sunday. «Countries such as India, Brazil, as well as representatives of Africa should have been on a permanent basis in the Security Council for a long time. This is necessary to ensure representativeness, representation of the global majority,» Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told aif.ru. in an interview, TASS reported. India has been at the forefront of years-long efforts calling for reform of the Security Council, including expansion in both its permanent and non-permanent categories, saying the 15-nation Council, founded in 1945, is not fit for purpose in the 21st Century and does not reflect contemporary geo-political realities. Delhi has underscored that it deserves a permanent seat at the horse-shoe table. Last month, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer joined US President Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron in backing India's bid for a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC).

prophecies of legendary mystics Nostradamus and Baba Vanga are making headlines as 2025 approaches, raising concerns about potential chaos and conflict. With predictions suggesting a tumultuous year ahead, both figures offer strikingly similar warnings about the future.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. WHEN HISTORIANS write about the first quarter of the 21st century, they may sum it up this way: 20 years of unprecedented progress followed by five years of stagnation. This is true for nearly every issue the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation works on, from poverty reduction to primary-school enrolment.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi: With an eye on China, India is intensifying efforts to expand the number of Geographical Indication (GI) products to scale up exports and secure premium pricing in global markets, two people aware of the development said. GI products play a critical role in export promotion by highlighting the unique qualities tied to specific regions, cultures, and production methods.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi: In Kerala’s Njarakkadu village, sandwiched between foothills and the state highway leading to Munnar hill station, is a 15-acre rubber plantation belonging to the well-known Kuzhiyelil family. It is 4:00 am.

Andhra Pradesh CM N Chandrababu Naidu called on people in southern states to have more children, citing concerns about an ageing population. He said the state govt is planning to implement "population management", including considering new legislation to incentivise families with more kids, as per a TOI report. «The state govt is thinking of bringing a law that would make only those with more than two children eligible to contest local body elections,» Naidu said. He also mentioned that the state had earlier passed legislation barring people with more than two children from contesting local polls. «We have repealed that law, and we are now considering reversing it...Govt may provide more benefits to families with more children,» he said.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi: Facing a workforce shortage, Germany is planning to substantially increase the number of skilled labour visas it grants for Indians to 90,000 every year, from the current cap of 20,000, said ambassador Philipp Ackermann. With a worker shortage worsening Germany’s economy, these visas will be used to fill gaps in sectors such as information technology, nursing and caregiving, Ackermann said in an interview.

Dhananjay Chandrachud said on Saturday that he sat before God (in his home) and asked him to find a solution to the vexed Ram Janmabhoomi- Babri Masjid dispute when the case came up before a bench led by Justice Ranjan Gogoi in which Chandrachud was one of the justices. The other members of the bench were Justices S A Bobde, Ashok Bhushan and SA Nazeer. Speaking in an event where he was felicitated by villagers of his native village Kanesar in Pune, Chandrachud said, “I became the Chief justice… Many times it happens that we get cases and what is the way out of it, we don’t get a solution. In Ayodhya (Ramjanmabhoomi- Babri Masjid case) when it came before me, for three months, we were thinking about the Ayodhya case, meaning for hundreds of years for which there was no solution. At that time in my regular life, I have been worshipping God in my home and at that time I sat before God and I told him that he should find a solution for this and you will believe this if you have faith then God will always find a way for us”said Chandrachud who is set to retire on November 10.

agriculture ministry, prompting the country to ramp up imports of the staple grain amid soaring food prices. Floods brought by heavy monsoon rains and torrential upstream runoff struck the country in two major waves in August and October, claiming at least 75 lives and affecting millions, particularly in the eastern and northern regions where crop damage has been the most severe. The agriculture ministry said this year's flooding has resulted in a substantial loss of rice production. In response, the government is moving quickly to import 500,000 tons of rice and is expected to permit private sector imports soon, a food ministry official said.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. As part of its plans to ink long-term coking coal import contracts with Mongolia to meet the needs of domestic steelmakers, India is working out supply routes from the landlocked country, with plans to leverage the Russian Trans-Siberian Railways to bring coal to port city of Vladivostok and then ship it to India, and deliver coal at Chennai port. Government is also developing Estern Maritime Corridor linking eastern ports of India to Russian port in Vladivostok.

Hezbollah on the defensive after a series of heavy Israeli blows, the United States and Iran are locked in a showdown over Lebanon's future, analysts said. Hezbollah, the most powerful regional force backed by Iran, which arms and finances it, has long held sway in Lebanon. But the group's influence is now in question after Israel's assassination of its leader, Hassan Nasrallah, in a significant setback.

Narendra Modi inaugurated an eye hospital in his parliamentary constituency Varanasi on Sunday. Run by the Kanchi Math, R J Sankara Eye Hospital will offer comprehensive consultations and treatments for various eye conditions. The hospital will benefit people of 20 districts of eastern Uttar Pradesh as well as those living in the border areas of Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, according to people associated with the Kanchi Math. This is the Kanchi Math's 14th hospital in the country. The target is to conduct 30,000 free eye surgeries every year, the people cited above said.

Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah took centre stage on Sunday as he led the way in the Kashmir Marathon, the valley's first international athletic event, by running 21 kilometres (half marathon) alongside nearly 2000 athletes from various parts of the country and abroad. Flanked by Bollywood actor Suniel Shetty at the marathon's flagging-off ceremony, 54-year-old Abdullah commended the organisers and stakeholders for hosting the remarkable event. The marathon saw the participation of elite long-distance runners from India, Asian gold medallists, and top athletes from Europe and Africa. A fitness enthusiast himself, Abdullah expressed optimism for the Kashmir Marathon's future, envisioning it as a prominent fixture in the global athletic calendar.