NEW DELHI: “The 80s called, I answered,” quipped agriculture minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan as he posted on X a picture of him from that era. Congress Kerala posted an invented Gujarat street scene; BJP Telangana replied with a fabricated bar scene tagged “Lusiana, Italy”, apparently alluding to Sonia Gandhi’s birthplace.The ’80s came calling, and India’s…
NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on Thursday refused to allow wrestler Vinesh Phogat to participate in the women’s selection trials for the 2026 Senior World Championships, declining her request for an interim exemption from the eligibility criteria prescribed by the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI).Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma, in a late-night interim order, said…
Magnus Carlsen on Gukesh vs Javokhir Sindarov World Championship clash BENGALURU: Five-time world champion Magnus Carlsen has pushed back against the framing of D Gukesh’s upcoming World Championship match as a “title defence”, arguing that the Indian should instead be approaching it as an opportunity to gain rather than something to protect.Speaking to the reporters…
NEW DELHI: Around Rs 2.5 lakh crore has been spent in the disaster management sector over the last 11 years, increasing allocations for national and state disaster response funds manifold, home minister Amit Shah said while chairing the third meeting of the governing body of National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM) Thursday.Shah said the process…
BENGALURU: They say truth is stranger than fiction — a lesson Karnataka’s top hurdler has just been handed the hard way.Despite clearing Athletics Federation of India’s (AFI) Asian Games qualifying benchmark not once but thrice, Krishik M still finds himself left out of the 110-metre men’s hurdles squad for the upcoming continental showpiece in Japan.The…
MUMBAI: Sebi chairman Tuhin Kanta Pandey on Thursday said that the newly introduced Closing Auction Session (CAS) will stay but the regulator is studying if the mechanism to arrive at derivatives settlement prices could be changed. Pandey also said that MSCI, one of the largest index service providers in the world, has acknowledged that even…
NEW DELHI: UP govt informed Supreme Court Thursday that it has suspended the executive magistrate who issued a peace bond notice to a second-year law student in Noida for participating in the NEET-UG paper leak student protest and clarified that the district magistrate had no role in the offending action.This information was given by solicitor…
Cristiano Ronaldo and Travis Kelce (Agency Image) Cristiano Ronaldo and Travis Kelce have both built commercial empires well beyond their playing careers, yet the money involved tells two very different stories.Celebrity Net Worth puts Ronaldo’s fortune at $1.2 billion. Kelce, by comparison, is valued at $90 million. Do the maths and Ronaldo is worth more…
NEW DELHI/PATNA: A Delhi court Thursday framed charges against RJD chief Lalu Prasad, wife Rabri Devi, their son, Tejashwi Prasad Yadav, and six others in a money laundering case linked to the alleged IRCTC hotel scam, report Koushiki Saha & Jai Narain Pandey. The case dates to Lalu’s tenure as railway minister in the UPA…
NEW DELHI: Aug 2026 was the joint-warmest month ever recorded globally across all calendar months, on a par with July 2023, said Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) of the European Union’s space programme on Thursday.It noted that this Aug was 1.65° Celsius above the estimated pre-industrial (1850-1900) baseline, marking the first month above 1.5° Celsius…