Author: Mahavir Sumila

Australia’s nuclear-powered submarine program with the United States and Britain will cost up to A$368 billion ($245 billion) over the next three decades, a defense official said on Tuesday, the country’s biggest single defense project in history. U.S. President Joe Biden, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Tuesday unveiled details of a plan to provide Australia with nuclear-powered attack submarines, a major step to counter China’s naval build up in the Indo-Pacific. Albanese said the program would start with a A$6 billion ($4 billion) investment over the next four years to expand a major submarine base and the country’s submarine shipyards, as well as…

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s disqualification from the Lok Sabha created a furore in the state legislature on Friday. The Opposition staged a walk-out in protest and spoke in one voice, criticising the Bharatiya Janata Party for targeting Gandhi in particular, and anti-BJP people in general. The news broke while Opposition leader in the Assembly Ajit Pawar was questioning the state’s law and order situation while speaking on last week’s resolution put up by the MVA. State Congress president Nana Patole took up his party leader’s disqualification, calling it “an act of killing democracy”. He condemned the disqualification and walked out with the rest…

The OLA EV Hub would be spread across about 2,000 acre of land to be located at the company’s manufacturing facility in Tamil Nadu. Electric vehicle maker Ola Electric would set up an EV Hub in Tamil Nadu that would house advanced cell and EV manufacturing facilities, vendor and supplier parks among others, the company said on Saturday. The EV Hub would become one of the largest ancillary ecosystems for electric vehicles at a single location, the company said. Ola Electric earlier in the day inked a memorandum of understanding with the Tamil Nadu government in the presence of Chief…

A Kazakh teenager wearing a sinister-looking plastic mask wounded three schoolmates with an axe on Monday at a school in the city of Petropavlovsk in northern Kazakhstan, a police spokesperson said. Police have detained the student, whose name has n… The teenager “jumped into the hallway and started swinging his axe at students”, local news website Petropavlovsk News cited an eyewitness as saying. “He aimed at (one boy’s) heart. The boy raised his arms to protect himself,” it quoted the witness,… a fellow student, as saying. Such violent attacks are rare in the former Soviet republic’s schools, although bullying and…

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — She is from Ukraine and he is from Russia. Their love blossomed online, but with their nations at war, the odds of carrying on their relationship were stacked against them. Even so, it didn’t take long for the young couple to beat the odds. Mariia Vyhivska and Iurii Kurochkin, now both 23, fell in love while playing an online video game. But Russia’s invasion of its neighbor threatened to scuttle their relationship before it even got off the ground. They boldly turned their backs on the war-engendered enmity pervading their homelands and chose to be together.…