Vinesh Phogat (File photo) NEW DELHI: The Delhi high court has allowed celebrated wrestler Vinesh Phogat to participate in the upcoming Asian Games selection trials, observing that allowing her participate in the trials was necessary “in the interest of sports and justice.” A bench comprising Chief Justice DK Upadhyaya and Justice Tejas Karia also directed…
At 4:30 a.m., somewhere between Sri Lanka and India, the sea was pitch-black.The only thing visible ahead was a blinking light in the distance.Around them was nothing except dark water and silence.Every few strokes, something brushed past their bodies in the water. At one point, flying fish began colliding with them in the dark. They…
Ali Khamenei; Abbas Araghchi Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi on Friday claimed he was inside the office of then-Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei when it was attacked during the first wave of US-Israeli strikes in Tehran on February 28 that triggered the Middle East conflict.He said that he emerged from the “rubble” fearing for Khamenei’s fate,…
Chennai Super Kings’ Urvil Patel (ANI Photo) NEW DELHI: First ball: single. Next eight balls: six sixes, 41 runs, and IPL history rewritten. On a Sunday night at Chepauk, there was no easing into the innings for Urvil Patel, only immediate destruction.With Chennai Super Kings chasing 204 against Lucknow Super Giants in their IPL 2026…
NEW DELHI: Classrooms across the world are being quietly reset as govts redraw boundaries between learning and screen time. In just three years, the share of education systems restricting or banning mobile phones in schools has more than doubled — from 24% in 2023 to 58% in 2026 — with 114 systems now enforcing national-level…
Royal Challengers Bengaluru’s Bhuvneshwar Kumar (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.) NEW DELHI: Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) pulled off a dramatic two-wicket win over Mumbai Indians in a last-ball IPL 2026 thriller, and Bhuvneshwar Kumar became the hero of the night. The veteran pacer first starred with the ball by taking four key wickets, then surprised everyone…
Musk loses trillionaire tag as SpaceX crashes 30%, Tesla slides—$360 billion gone in days Elon Musk‘s run as the world’s first trillionaire is over, and it lasted less than two weeks. The richest person on the planet slipped back below the $1 trillion mark after a brutal tech sell-off knocked the wind out of both…
Indian woman Amitoj Kaur was the sole casualty of the fire that caught her apartment in Nova Scotia, Canada, earlier this month 24-year-old Amitoj Kaur was identified as one of the victims of the tragic fire that caught a residential building in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, earlier this month. Kaur came to Canada to study and…
Somewhere under a patch of ordinary garden soil, billions of bacteria are quietly going about their business eating organic matter, releasing electrons, and in doing so, producing a faint but constant electrical charge. For most of human history, that energy has simply disappeared into the ground unnoticed. A British startup called Bactery, spun out of…
Stanley has an artificial intelligence (AI)-led layoff ‘warning’ for employees of European banks. In a research note, the American bank has predicted that AI could help European banks achieve productivity gains of around 30%, potentially resulting in job cuts of up to 20% over the next five years.Morgan Stanley’s team of analysts, led by Giulia…