Virat Kohli paid tribute to West Indies great Sir Garfield Sobers after his death, calling him one of the greatest cricketers the game has ever seen.Sobers leaves behind a career that shaped cricket over two decades. He excelled with both bat and ball and set a benchmark for all-rounders that few have matched.Kohli took to…
Dipke announces hunger strike (PTI image) NEW DELHI: Cockroach Janta Party founder Abhijeet Dipke on Saturday announced that he has begun an indefinite hunger strike, saying the fast starts “right now” after activist Sonam Wangchuk was removed from the protest site at Jantar Mantar earlier in the day.Announcing the decision on X, Dipke wrote, “I…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday hailed the planned maiden launch of Vikram-1, India’s first privately developed orbital launch vehicle, as “a historic new frontier” for the country’s space programme as Hyderabad-based Skyroot Aerospace prepared for Mission Aagaman from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota.The mission, scheduled for lift-off at 11.30am, marks the first…
Apple has taken aggressive new legal actions against Sam Altman’s OpenAI. Just days after launching a trade secrets lawsuit, the iPhone maker has targeted dozens of its own former employees (now working for the ChatGPT maker) with stern personal legal warnings. Citing sources familiar with the situation, The Financial Times reported that Apple’s legal team…
India’s Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli (ANI Photo) Amid growing speculation over the ODI futures of Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli, former India batter Mohammed Kaif has thrown his weight behind the veteran duo, insisting their experience will be crucial if India are to challenge for the 2027 ODI World Cup in South Africa, Zimbabwe…
Dr Ram Manohar Lohia (RML) Hospital has been designated as the nodal centre for any medical emergency involving the protesters NEW DELHI: Climate activist Sonam Wangchuk was shifted to VMMC & Safdarjung Hospital on Saturday morning after completing 20 days of his indefinite fast at Jantar Mantar, less than 48 hours after the Union health…
Far below the surface of the Pacific, off the southeastern coast of Japan, there’s a place where the Earth is quietly minting gold. Not in glittering nuggets or chunky veins, but in forms so small and hidden that you can’t see them with your eyes—or even with a regular microscope.Japanese researchers have been studying this…
In the late 1700s, in what is now South Africa’s Eastern Cape, a girl named Sarah (Sara/Saartjie) Baartman was born into a world already shaped by colonial violence. Her mother died when she was two. Her father, a cattle driver, died when she was a teenager. As a young woman, a Dutch colonist murdered her…
US President Donald Trump on Friday threatened to impose additional tariffs on Canada, accusing Ottawa of failing to manage its forests and allowing wildfire smoke to blanket parts of the United States with what he called “filthy, polluted, and unhealthy air.“In a post on Truth Social, Trump said Canada would be held responsible for the…
NEW DELHI: NEET-UG’s nationwide attendance fall acquired a regional pattern in 2026, with Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka recording high absenteeism while Rajasthan expanded its candidate base and posted the strongest qualification rate among large states.Kerala had 1.14 lakh registrations, but only 84,664 candidates appeared, leaving 29,122 absent (25.6%). Tamil Nadu lost 33,893 of its…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court Friday warned two Ghaziabad private hospitals and a doctor that if they failed to voluntarily pay compensation to parents of a grievously injured sexually assaulted girl, who died due to refusal of treatment, it will impose costs that would have a chilling impact.When a doctor, accused of refusing admission to…
NEW DELHI: Pained by the unfortunate demise of a cancer patient awaiting Kerala HC’s order on her plea questioning exorbitant cost of life-saving medicines, the Supreme Court Friday took suo motu cognisance of both issues impacting right to life – plight of patients who cannot afford essential life-saving drugs and the judicial expediency in such…
