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The United Arab Emirates (UAE) will overhaul its regulatory framework for data centres and halt public disclosure of their physical locations to shield them from military threats, according to comments reported by The Next Web of a session from Salesforce’s annual event Dreamforce 2026. Speaking alongside Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff at the Dreamforce conference in…

SC last week asked govt to reconsider its decision not to reduce the cut-off percentile NEW DELHI: Nudged by Supreme Court to reduce the cut-off percentile for admission to super specialty medical courses to fill around 2,000 vacant seats, Centre Thursday told the court that the qualifying percentile for NEET-SS may go from the existing…

For patients, this could mean an additional safeguard against medicines sold without prescriptions or accessed via illegal channels. NEW DELHI: Buying prescription medicines from a medical store could soon be recorded on CCTV, with the footage required to be kept for at least three months, under a draft amendment to the Drugs Rules, 1945, proposed…

Provisional data compiled by Petroleum Planning & Analysis Cell showed that India imported 19 million tonnes (MT) of crude in Aug(Representative Image) NEW DELHI: India’s crude oil imports fell 3% in Aug from a year earlier while the import bill increased by over 18%, as renewed hostilities in West Asia disrupted energy supplies.Provisional data compiled…

Smoke rises after an F-16 fighter jet crashed in a rural area near Traverse City (AP photo) An F-16 fighter jet from Texas crashed in rural Michigan on Thursday during a routine training exercise, with the pilot ejecting safely before being taken to a local hospital, a military spokesman said.The aircraft was taking part in…

Local residents gather at a mobile polling station during early voting in Russia’s parliamentary election Russians began voting on Friday in a three-day parliamentary election that will determine all 450 seats in the State Duma (lower house of the Federal Assembly of Russia), the first such election since Moscow launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine…

An Army-CRPF-J&K police team launched the operation in Brattal bordering Kathua district JAMMU: Two Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorists were shot dead and a suspected overground worker was detained Thursday after security forces tracked down a hideout in rain-soaked forests of Udhampur district in J&K’s Jammu division, seizing assault rifles, a pistol and grenades.An Army-CRPF-J&K police team launched…

Wife of U Min Zin has urged Trump to raise her husband’s case with Xi. A US scholar who was invited to China for an academic event and later detained on national security charges has become the subject of a direct appeal to US President Donald Trump ahead of his meeting with Chinese President Xi…

Pakistan on Thursday announced a fresh set of austerity measures, including a 50 per cent cut in fuel allocations for government vehicles and a ban on official foreign travel and the purchase of new government vehicles. The measures come as rising global oil prices threaten fuel, gas and power supplies.The measures, approved by the Pakistan…

TMC vs TMC: EC bars both factions from using party symbol, name in Bengal bypolls NEW DELHI: The Election Commission on Thursday barred both rival Trinamool Congress (TMC) factions from using the party name and its reserved election symbol in the upcoming West Bengal Assembly bypolls, according to an interim order.The decision comes ahead of…