NEW DELHI: Teenage high jumper Pooja Singh produced a sensational performance on Friday, clinching gold with a stunning leap of 1.93m at the Asian U20 Athletics Championships in Hong Kong and scripting multiple pieces of history in the process.The 19-year-old became the first Indian ever to win a gold medal in the women’s high jump…
Indian-origin woman from California met a catastrophic accident during her birthday trip to Mexico earlier this month. Nina Bakhshi, an Indian-origin Californian makeup artist, had the most harrowing birthday trip this year as she chose a guided ATV (all-terrain vehicle) tour of Cenote La Noria in Mexico, where she fell from a bridge and suffered…
LUCKNOW: Sitapur police claimed to have solved the sensational murder of a self-styled occultist, popularly known as “Pardesi Baba”, with the arrest of the main accused who allegedly killed the occult practitioner believing that the latter had kept his mother under his influence for nearly two decades.The accused, identified as Nagendra (25) resident of Navinagar…
NEW DELHI: Outgoing Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah on Friday met the Congress top brass in Delhi, a day after stepping down from the state’s top post.While meeting Rahul Gandhi at 10 Janpath, Siddaramaiah reportedly told him that he had fulfilled his promise to resign as chief minister, paving the way for a transition in Karnataka.“He…
National Security Advisor Ajit Doval‘s visit to Moscow this week has once again highlighted the enduring importance of the India-Russia strategic partnership at a time of growing geopolitical uncertainty and shifting global power equations. Doval participated in the First International Security Forum and the 14th Meeting of High Representatives for Security Matters.Hosted by Russian Security…
Lucknow Super Giants’ Rishabh Pant (ANI Photo) Rishabh Pant’s two-year stint as Lucknow Super Giants captain has come under an abrupt cloud after the wicketkeeper-batter stepped down from the leadership role following another disastrous IPL season for the franchise. Bought for a record-breaking Rs 27 crore ahead of IPL 2025, Pant arrived in Lucknow as…
Image(s): Left/Wikipedia/Right/Canva After ecologists moved 131 feral cats away from Chichijima Island, which is located in the Ogasawara archipelago, this island became a topic of interest for ecological research. This wildlife conservation initiative undertaken at Chichijima Island in Japan has since received much attention in the field of conservation biology, as removing the cats caused…
Magnus Carlsen vs D Gukesh (Photo by Michal Walusza/Norway Chess) NEW DELHI: Indian chess star D Gukesh received a flood of birthday wishes from some of the biggest names in chess during the ongoing Norway Chess 2026 tournament, but it was Magnus Carlsen’s playful message that grabbed the internet’s attention. In a video shared by…
LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman believes that the era of winning with AI chatbots is now over and that the next major opportunity lies in AI-powered medicine. According to a report by Business Insider, speaking on The Possible Podcast this week, Hoffman said that the investors should look beyond chatbot platforms like OpenAI and Anthropic and…
India’s foreign exchange reserves fell by $7.511 billion to $681.384 billion in the week ended May 22, extending their decline for a second consecutive week, according to data released by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Friday, reported PTI. The reserves had dropped by $8.094 billion in the previous reporting week to $688.894 billion….