R Ashwin and Hardik Pandya (Photo by PTI and BCCI) NEW DELHI: Former India spinner Ravichandran Ashwin has questioned a key decision by Hardik Pandya during Indian Premier League 2026, after Mumbai Indians’ loss to Chennai Super Kings. The debate centres around Pandya asking young pacer Krish Bhagat to bowl crucial death overs, which went…
File photo: FM Nirmala Sitharaman Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday urged banks to strengthen cybersecurity systems and adopt a more proactive approach to tackle emerging threats linked to advanced artificial intelligence models, particularly amid concerns over Anthropic’s “Claude Mythos”.Chairing a high-level meeting with bank chiefs alongside IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, Sitharaman directed lenders…
PATNA: The Samrat Choudhary-led NDA government in Bihar won the vote of confidence in the state assembly on Friday.Choudhary moved the motion, proposing that “the House reposes its trust in the current council of ministers in the state”, during a one-day special session.The motion was passed by a voice vote in the 243-strong House, where…
GURGAON: A 29-year-old executive with a govt organisation was found dead in his rented flat in Sector 53 on Thursday morning, with police suspecting he may have died due to an overdose of sexual enhancement pills.According to sources, police are awaiting the man’s postmortem report to confirm the exact cause of death and the suspicion…
Virat Kohli, Shubman Gill, and Bhuvneshwar Kumar NEW DELHI: Both Royal Challengers Bengaluru and Gujarat Titans are coming into today’s IPL 2026 match after facing defeat in their previous games. Defending champions RCB lost their last match against Delhi Capitals by six wickets at home in Bengaluru, while GT’s three-match winning streak also ended at…
The corporate world rarely loosens its grip on formals, think crisp linen shirts, sharp tailoring, and neatly put-together office wear. But Tokyo’s workforce may have found an escape. In a bid to beat the heat and cut back on electricity use, the metropolitan government is now letting its employees clock in wearing shorts, as rising…
NEW DELHI: Union minister Kiren Rijiju on Friday criticised Rahul Gandhi over his comments on West Bengal politics, accusing the Congress leader of taking contradictory positions on the upcoming state election.Reacting to Rahul Gandhi’s remarks on social media, Rijiju wrote on X: “Bewildering…. on the one hand Rahul Gandhi Ji is saying only Congress can…
While US President Donald Trump and Indian PM Narendra Modi may have what can be described as a ‘strong friendship’, it seems the Republican leader harbours extreme prejudice against Indians internally. On Wednesday, Trump posted a 4-page screed, apparently a transcription of remarks from conservative podcast host Michael Savage that denounced the US constitutional right…
PM Modi vs Mamata Banerjee NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his recent “jhalmuri” break during a campaign visit, alleging that the episode was staged.Addressing a poll rally at Bowbazar, Mamata claimed that arrangements at the roadside stall in Jhargram had been pre-planned, including security…
A groundbreaking study by Linda Losurdo, a PhD candidate at the University of Sydney, successfully simulated extreme chemical environments in space in the lab. By combining nitrogen, carbon dioxide and acetylene in high-voltage electrical plasma, she recreated a fragment of the universe inside a bottle in her laboratory, producing cosmic dust from scratch. The findings…