Month: December 2024

France’s hard left on Wednesday urged President Emmanuel Macron to resign and hold early presidential elections after lawmakers voted to oust the government of Prime Minister Michel Barnier. “We are now calling on Macron to go,” Mathilde Panot, the head of the parliamentary faction of the hard-left France Unbowed (LFI) party told reporters, urging “early […]

Mumbai on Wednesday recorded a maximum temperature of 37.3 degrees Celsius, its hottest day in December in the last 16 years, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said. The Santacruz observatory, which monitors temperature for the suburbs, recorded 37.3 degree Celsius, while the Colaba weather station for the island city logged 35 degrees Celsius. On December […]

A day after a 12-year-old student of Class-6 died following a minor fight at a private school in the national capital, Delhi Police has detained a classmate of the student in connection with the case, officials said on Wednesday. Hundreds of people protested outside Chinmaya Vidyalaya in southwest Delhi after the mysterious death of Prince, […]

The CBI conducted searches at 10 locations in Delhi and surrounding areas on Wednesday in connection with a case of transnational cyber-enabled financial frauds involving Rs 117 crore, officials said. The searches were conducted during an ongoing investigation into a case registered on a complaint from the Union Home Ministry’s Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C). […]

Israeli forces in Gaza have deployed quadcopter drones, playing the sounds of crying babies and distressed women, to draw Palestinians out of their homes in open areas where they can be targeted. “In mid-April, we were informed that Israeli quadcopters were emitting bizarre sounds, including baby sounds or women screaming,” Maha Hussaini, Euro-Med Human Rights […]