PM Modi congratulates Team India NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Droupadi Murmu led the tributes on Monday as India celebrated the women’s eighth Women’s Asia Cup title, with both praising Harmanpreet Kaur’s side for an unbeaten and dominant campaign.India defeated Sri Lanka by 72 runs in the final at the Dubai International…
Defence minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday said the Centre is “committed to safeguard the Indian people” as the government stepped up monitoring of energy supplies and essential commodities amid the ongoing West Asia conflict.In a post on X after chairing a high-level review, Singh wrote: “A meeting of an IGoM (Informal Group of Ministers) constituting…
Quote of the day on love, its meaning and origin. The famous line “find what you love and let it kill you” is almost universally attributed to Charles Bukowski, though history tells a slightly more complicated story. Literature scholars and researchers have found no evidence that Bukowski ever wrote or spoke those exact words in…
CBSE scraps Class XII exams in Bahrain, Iran, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and UAE CBSE Class XII exams cancelled: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has cancelled the Class XII board examinations scheduled in several Middle East countries following a review of the feasibility of conducting the tests in the region.The announcement has…
Representative image (AI) NEW DELHI: For many Indians who recovered from COVID-19 during the first wave, the pandemic did not end with a negative test report. A nationwide study has found that fear and stigma followed survivors long after recovery, leading to social exclusion, job loss and psychological distress, while also discouraging people from seeking…
Many tourists make the mistake of crossing the border into Canada when visiting Niagara Falls. A recent Reddit post on a person claiming that a friend, a Palestinian refugee, went inside Canada from the US border and then got detained while coming back has triggered a major debate on such claims. This particular incident goes…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday refused to entertain a petition filed by Prashant Kishor’s Jan Suraaj Party challenging the 2025 Bihar assembly elections. A bench comprising CJI Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi declined to issue any direction on the request to annul the election results and order fresh polls. “How many votes…
You’ll wake up with a brave streak today, like the first hot wind before summer rain. The Moon pushes your courage, and Mars gives you that extra kick to try something out of your usual routine.Short journeys show up, maybe an office errand, a quick visit to a cousin, or a sudden plan to change…
CHENNAI: Speaker JCD Prabhakar on Tuesday accepted the handwritten resignation letter of former Minister and sitting Ambasamudram MLA Esakki Subbaiah, after initially rejecting a typed version.Subbaiah is expected to join the ruling Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK). This follows Monday’s resignations of three MLAs from the rebel camp led by former AIADMK ministers C Ve Shanmugam…
‘Regime change normal in democracy’: Chidambaram hits back at BJP NEW DELHI: Senior Congress leader and former Union minister P Chidambaram on Saturday defended the use of the phrase “regime change” in a democracy, amid a political row over remarks by student activist Neha Bora and senior advocate Prashant Bhushan during protests against Chief Election…
