Rushdie spent 17 days at a Pennsylvania hospital and more than three weeks at a New York City rehabilitation center. The author of “Midnight’s Children,” “The Moor’s Last Sigh” and “Victory City” detailed his recovery in his 2024 memoir, “Knife.”
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India to keep Indus Water Treaty suspended until Pakistan stops supporting cross-border terrorism: Jal Shakti ministry
Brokered by the World Bank in 1960, the Indus Waters Treaty governed the distribution and use of the Indus river and its tributaries between India and Pakistan.
UN Secretary General Guterres calls for global ban on lethal autonomous systems
UN chief António Guterres has once again called for a global ban on lethal autonomous weapon systems.
Apple assures Indian government of its commitment despite Trump’s ‘problem’
Apple has ‘assured’ India of continued commitment to using India as a major base to manufacture its products
Singapore Airlines group posts record SGD 2.8 billion net profit, boosted by Air India-Vistara merger
Giving a summary of the company’s financial statement, a SIA press release said that the SGD 2.8 billion net profit was “boosted by the one-off non-cash accounting gain of SGD 1.1 billion from the Air India-Vistara merger”.
India’s defence budget likely to increase by USD 5.85B after Operation Sindoor’s success
If approved, the total defence allocation will cross INR 7 lakh crore (USD 81.87 billion), a historic figure. In the Union Budget for 2025-26, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had already set aside a record INR 6.81 lakh crore (USD 79.65 billion) for the defence sector.
US: Indian-origin techie among three killed in tragic climbing accident in Washington
Vishnu, 48, a resident of Seattle, was attempting to climb North Early Winters Spire area of the Cascades along with his three friends, Tim Nguyen, 63, Oleksander Martynenko, 36 and Anton Tselykh, 38, on Saturday, May 10, when the accident happened, NBC News reported.
S Jaishankar thanks Taliban leader for condemning Pahalgam terror attack during first telephonic conversation
S Jaishankar thanks Afghanistan’s Foreign Minister Mawlawi Amir Khan Muttaqi over the recent Pahalgam attack in Jammu and Kashmir
‘Are nukes safe with irresponsible and rogue nation like Pakistan?’: Indian defence minister Rajnath Singh demands global monitoring
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday sought a global monitoring of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons questioning how safe the nukes are with the “irresponsible” and “rogue” nation. Singh visited Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday for the first time since the Indian Armed Forces conducted Operation Sindoor to destroy the terrorists camps in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and Pakistan […]
Singapore: 20-year-old Indian man sentenced to 3-week jail for molesting SIA crew member
Rajat had grasped the stewardess from behind and pushed her into a lavatory with him during the Singapore Airlines (SIA) flight on February 28.
