A US unmanned surface vehicle attacks an Iranian dock in Bandar Abbas. (Image credit: US Central Command) When drones first went on the offensive over the skies of Ukraine, they were thought of as a poor nation’s weapon against a much larger and powerful enemy. The iconography was that of a feeble David taking on…
Chinese proverb of the day (Image generated via Google Gemini) Some proverbs make perfect sense the moment they are heard. Others need a little unpacking.“A woman three years older is like holding a golden brick.”At first glance, it sounds unusual. Modern readers might wonder why a few years of age would be compared to something…
NEW DELHI/CHANDIGARH: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday carried out fresh searches against Punjab industries minister Sanjeev Arora and some others allegedly linked to him as part of a money laundering investigation, officials said.Among the five locations raided were Arora’s official residence in Chandigarh and the premises of a real estate company in Gurugram, Haryana,…
Vaibhav Sooryavanshi (PTI Photo) NEW DELHI: India assistant coach Ryan ten Doeschate has declared teenage batting sensation Vaibhav Sooryavanshi fully ready for international cricket, while stressing that the 15-year-old must go through the established team process before earning his debut, even as questions intensify following India’s shock 0-2 T20I series defeat to Ireland.The omission of…
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, right, and Indonesia’s President Prabowo Subianto arrive for a joint press conference following their meeting, at Merdeka Palace in Jakarta, Indonesia. (AP Photo/PTI) PM Narendra Modi underlined the need for urgent UNSC reforms, backed freedom of navigation in the Indo-Pacific and urged greater cooperation against terrorism, as he addressed the…
Gujarat Titans’ Sai Sudharsan (AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia) Shubman Gill opened up on Sai Sudharsan’s strange back-to-back hit-wicket dismissals in Gujarat Titans’ massive Qualifier 2 win over Rajasthan Royals, admitting that even he had never witnessed anything quite like it before.After producing a record-breaking century to guide GT into the IPL 2026 final, Gill opened up…
Lisha Das (Pic credit: NVS India) NEW DELHI: India’s Commonwealth Games (CWG) contingent has come under scrutiny after the youngest member of the 191-strong squad, 16-year-old para track cyclist Lisha Das expressed “profound disappointment” over the absence of a woman coach or support staff in the track and para track cycling contingent, raising safety and…
In an unusual move, PM Modi took to social media to trash speculation about govt planning curbs on foreign travel, dismissing it as “totally false” and emphasising that there is “not an iota of truth in this”. Responding to a media report that said govt was considering a tax, cess or surcharge on foreign travel,…
The world’s first trillionaire has promised to take you to Mars, but can he?Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, is no longer just looking at Earth, but straight at the little red planet: Mars. The SpaceX founder has an interstellar dream: not just to visit the red planet, but to help build a permanent human…
Korean proverb of the day (Image generated via Google Gemini) A word seems like such a small, weightless thing. You say it, it disappears into the air, and that should be the end of it. An old Korean proverb warns that it is not nearly so simple. Words have no wings, it says, but they…