
Around one million participants from across the world are planning to join a meditation session on December 21, organised by the Heartfulness Institute, an initiative that promotes peace and harmony through collective meditation, and is expected to set a new Guinness World Record. ...

The United States has signalled a strategic shift from a narrow focus on semiconductor chips to securing the entire artificial intelligence (AI) stack, including data centres, energy, critical minerals, and global supply chains, through its newly launched Pax Silica initiative, senior US officials said. ...

US and Russian negotiators are expected to hold talks in Miami, the US state of Florida, this weekend over a peace deal aimed at ending the Ukraine crisis that has lasted nearly four years, US media outlet Politico reported. ...

The United States has underlined that India remains a "highly strategic potential partner" on supply chain security and advanced technologies, even though New Delhi was not part of the inaugural Pax Silica Summit, a new US-led initiative focused on securing the global silicon and semiconductor supply chain....

South Korea and the United States share the understanding that their latest talks on North Korea policy are not the same as a now-defunct dialogue channel under the former Moon Jae-in government, a foreign ministry official said Wednesday. ...

BJP thrives on identity issues. It uses these issues to polarize the society and to reap electoral benefits from that. So far starting from Babri Mosque-Ram Temple, Cow-beef, Love jihad and ...

The terrorist attack on families celebrating Jewish festival Hanukkah at Bondi Beach in Australia laid bare not only the deadly consequences of anti-Semitism but a leadership vacuum that allowed such hatred to spread, a report said on Wednesday. ...

“A huge disagreement” in his administration overshadowed US President Donald Trump’s tariffs war, according to his Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, and neither she nor Vice President JD Vance could slow him down. ...

US President Donald Trump used a White House Hanukkah reception to deliver a campaign-style speech defending Israel, denouncing antisemitism, and touting what he described as his administration’s actions against Iran and Hamas, as an enthusiastic audience cheered, chanted slogans, and applauded familiar political refrains. ...

A bipartisan group of US senators introduced legislation aimed at imposing financial sanctions on foreign entities that continue to purchase Russian oil, seeking to choke off a major source of revenue for Moscow’s war effort in Ukraine. ...