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China’s export growth slowed sharply in March, with a year-on-year rise of just 2.5% as the Middle East war continues to cast a shadow over global demand and energy markets. The latest customs figures not only fell below expectations but also marked a sharp slowdown from the 21.8% growth seen in the first two months…

Trump shared this image on Truth Social (now deleted) US President Donald Trump on Monday explained the reasons behind posting, now-deleted, AI image of himself depicting himself as a Jesus Christ-like figure, after the image sparked fierce backlash from own his prominent Christian supporters.The image posted by Trump on Sunday night depicted him in a…

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Facebook-parent Meta is reportedly developing an artificial intelligence-powered version of its CEO Mark Zuckerberg that can interact with employees in his place. According to a report by Financial Times, the project is part of Meta’s broader push to embed AI deeply into its products and operations. The FT report suggests that…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday said that while Jews were like an “abused animal crying in agony” at the hands of the Nazis, the modern state of Israel fights back against its enemies.While addressing Israel’s annual Holocaust Memorial Day, Netanyahu listed Iranian nuclear sites alongside Nazi death camps and said there would be…

Sakib Hussain, a 21-year-old uncapped pacer from Gopalganj, Bihar, created history on his Indian Premier League (IPL) debut for Sunrisers Hyderabad on Monday against Rajasthan Royals with figures of 4 for 24.Sakib is the seventh player in IPL history to take four or more wickets on debut, and he now also holds the joint fifth-best…

NEW DELHI: Nepal PM Balendra “Balen” Shah accepted Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s invitation to visit India even as he initiated a sweeping and radical 100-point governance agenda at home targeting VIP culture, political influence in campuses and bureaucracy, delays in public service, free healthcare access for the poor, safer public transport for women and stress-free…

Ambedkar is a gypsy icon in Hungary,” says Tibor Derdak over the phone from Miskolc, a city two hours from Budapest. It was here 20 years ago that Derdak co-founded a school named after B R Ambedkar, who never visited Hungary. Today, an Ambedkar statue stands near the building of Dr Ambedkar School. “Ambedkar’s life…

TOI correspondent from Washington: In a Netflix-era episode of Church vs State, US President Donald Trump, fresh from watching a cage fight in Miami over the weekend, has waded into a brawl with a 2,000-year-old institution that has outlived empires, plagues, and—until now—social media.In a blistering post that read like a theological review on Rotten…

MALDA: NIA has made its first arrests over the April 1 siege of judicial officers involved in SIR verifications at Mothabari in Malda, picking up two members of Congress and one of ISF. Congress’ Sahadat Hossain and Asif Sk were taken into custody on Sunday alongside ISF’s Golam Rabbani. Sayem Choudhury, the local Congress candidate,…

NEW DELHI: Amplifying the opposition’s protest, Congress leader Sonia Gandhi Monday raised questions about the delimitation being planned by the Modi govt by arguing that it must be preceded by a census and delimitation should be “politically equitable”. She has also sought “OBC sub-quota” for women, underlining that Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge had made the…