Mukesh Ambani Races Toward World’s Exclusive $100 Billion Wealth Club

Mukesh Ambani added $3.7 billion to his net worth on Friday as shares of his flagship company surged after the tycoon doubled down on his clean-energy goals. Asia’s wealthiest person is now worth $92.6 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. The tycoon is closing in on L’Oreal’s…

20 Years On, Raging Pandemic Gives 9/11 Conspiracists Second Wind

Washington, United States:  For Heather Bauer, 9/11 anniversaries are about something other than the fallen Twin Towers, smoking wreckage at the Pentagon, and a crashed airliner in a Pennsylvania field. Instead of the accepted version of events — that Al-Qaeda conducted the attacks — she believes the…

Delta Surge Means This Is As Good As Global Growth Gets

The pandemic’s summer resurgence is slowing the global economic recovery as the delta variant dogs efforts to rev up factories, offices and schools. Instead of entering the final months of 2021 confident that the acute phase of the pandemic is over, it’s becoming clear that booster shots may be needed for…

Woman Falls At Doctor’s Feet, Desperation In UP District Hit By Dengue

Lucknow:  Having waited for well over an hour outside a government hospital in western Uttar Pradesh’s Firozabad, the mother of a 12-year-old fell at the feet of a doctor on Sunday evening as her son was granted admission capturing the desperation of patients and their relatives in the district battling a…

“If We Die …”: What Afghan Resistance Leader, Killed, Had Told NDTV

New Delhi:  The spokesperson of the anti-Taliban resistance in Panjshir was killed in a fierce gunfight on Sunday. Just days ago, Fahim Dashty, chief spokesperson of the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan (NRFA), had told NDTV: “If we die, history will write about us, as people who stood for their…

Afghan Resistance Leader Asks For End To War, Seeks Talks With Taliban

The leader of the Afghan opposition group resisting Taliban forces in the Panjshir valley north of Kabul said on Sunday he welcomed proposals from religious scholars for a negotiated settlement to end the fighting. Ahmad Massoud, head of the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan (NRFA), made the announcement on the…