West Indies Cricket Team (AP Photo) NEW DELHI: For a team with two ODI World Cup titles, West Indies have found themselves in an unfamiliar position again. The Caribbean side will not qualify automatically for the 2027 World Cup and must now negotiate the qualifying route to make the tournament in South Africa, Zimbabwe and…
A Pennsylvania woman accused of pretending to have terminal brain cancer to collect thousands of dollars from friends, family members and supporters is now being sought by the FBI, years after she was charged in a fraud scheme.37-year-old Vanessa O’Rourke is accused of falsely claiming she had glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer, and…
After almost a year of dating, Sydney Sweeney and Scooter Braun have made their hush-hush romance Instagram-official.The couple, who was first romantically linked together after attending Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez’s Venice wedding, took to the ‘Gram to post one of their first photos as a couple. The pictures in question were from their time…
NEW DELHI: Four years after the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 set out to recast undergraduate education, research, credit mobility and industry linkages, the first AISHE stocktake of NEP implementation shows an uneven reform map. Only 56% of responding universities have introduced four-year undergraduate programmes, 49% offer multiple entry and exit, 55% participated in NIRF,…
ChatGPT creator OpenAI became the third major artificial intelligence developer to confidentially file for a public listing Monday, joining rivals in an IPO pipeline now worth some $3.6 trillion.SpaceX, which is officially known as Space Exploration Technologies Corp, is preparing for an IPO that would value the company at about $1.8 trillion. Anthropic raised funds…
Growing up as the children of the Nawab of Pataudi, Mansoor Ali Khan, and actor Sharmila Tagore, Saif Ali Khan and his sisters Soha Ali Khan and Saba Pataudi spent much of their early years living in a palace. Despite this privileged upbringing, they were taught to be mindful of even minor expenses. Soha recently…
The US aircraft carrier USS Nimitz and its strike group have entered the Caribbean Sea amid escalating tensions between Washington and Havana.The deployment comes at a time when US President Donald Trump has intensified rhetoric against Cuba and hinted at possible action against the island nation.The carrier strike group includes the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS…
US President Donald Trump said Thursday he was not worried about rising gasoline prices linked to the widening conflict with Iran, adding that the military campaign was a bigger priority.“I don’t have any concern about it,” Trump told Reuters in an interview when asked about higher prices at the pump. “They’ll drop very rapidly when…
Violence in Manipur’s Ukhrul (PTI image) NEW DELHI: The Manipur government on Tuesday suspended internet and data services across Ukhrul district for five days, citing a volatile law and order situation following fresh violence in the area. The shutdown covers mobile data, broadband, VPN and VSAT services and came into effect at 11.30 am on…
India’s Asmita Dey (PTI Photo) NEW DELHI: Tripura chief minister Manik Saha has fulfilled a promise made to Commonwealth Games gold medallist Asmita Dey, with the state government allotting her a piece of land in Agartala to build a house.The 23-year-old judoka was honoured in Tripura on Wednesday after becoming the first Indian judoka to…
