India is the top country of origin for international migration to OECD — Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development — countries, according to a report. Over 5.6 lakh Indians migrated to developing countries for employment, education, and family reunification in 2022, the 2024 International Migration Outlook revealed. In 2023, India continued to be the leading […]

SpaceX, the company owned by ‘The First Buddy’ of US President-elect Donald Trump, is the first big beneficiary of a multi-million dollar deal inked by India’s space agency. Early next week, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket will take India’s most modern communications satellite GSAT-20, also called GSAT N-2, into orbit. This is the first of many […]

More than 80 kg of high-grade cocaine worth around Rs 900 crore was recovered by the anti-drugs agency in Delhi today. The seizure of the party drug – one of the “biggest hauls of cocaine in Delhi” – came on a day a joint operation by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), Navy and Gujarat ATS […]

Comedian Conan O’Brien, a former late-night television host, will be the emcee for the Oscars for the first time, taking over from fellow funnyman Jimmy Kimmel, organizers said Friday. O’Brien, 61, will preside over Hollywood’s biggest night next March, hoping to maintain — and even perhaps improve — on an uptick in ratings seen earlier […]

On a tense night in 1989 in Mumbai, a mother and a child had to visit a hospital. There were restrictions on the roads due to violence in the area. With no transport available, a young auto-rickshaw driver, who lived in a chawl, drove the duo to the hospital. It’s a story etched in the […]