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Aryna Sabalenka and Carlos Alcaraz NEW YORK CITY: Aryna Sabalenka was distracted by the smell of cannabis wafting through Louis Armstrong Stadium midway through the opening set of her US Open third-round match against Kamilla Rakhimova. The world No. 1 turned to chair umpire Eva Asderaki-Moore to raise the issue.“Someone is smoking weed,” she said,…
Sanjay Gupta has revisited the making of his 2002 crime thriller ‘Kaante’ and revealed a lesser-known detail about Amitabh Bachchan‘s approach to his character. The filmmaker recalled that the original script featured several abusive dialogues, but Bachchan had one clear condition — his character would not use foul language.Speaking to Hussain Zaidi, Gupta recalled how…
Vande Bharat crossing Sambar Lake in Rajasthan (Instagram) There are train journeys that take you from one city to another, and then there is Vande Bharat speeding past one of the most gorgeous locations in the country, the Sambar Lake in Rajasthan. The striking video was captured by Jaipur-based photographer Yogesh Sevkani, known on Instagram…
Image Used For Representational Purpose Only ROORKEE: A 14-year-old girl was allegedly gang-raped by four youth in Laksar area of Uttarakhand’s Haridwar district, police said. Three suspects, aged between 19 and 21, were apprehended within hours of the crime, while a fourth accused, a 17-year-old boy, remains absconding.The assault occurred during the intervening night of…
General:At last, some breathing room. Work conditions begin to improve, and that alone can ease a lot of hidden tension. Mercury encourages pragmatic thinking today, whereas Saturn is a reward for the hard work that you’ve put into it without many acclamations. The knot on the chest gets looser.You’ll stay busy, no doubt about that….
Off the coast of southwest England, the small island of Lundy was once a textbook case of how invasive rats can devastate seabird colonies. By the late 1990s, puffin numbers had crashed to just 13 breeding pairs, and many other seabirds had abandoned the island altogether. In 2002, conservationists launched an ambitious rat-eradication project to…
The interaction with National Teachers Award winners was held at PM Modi’s Lok Kalyan Marg residence NEW DELHI: “You need confidence and plenty of practice.” That was the public-speaking advice PM Narendra Modi received from a national award-winning teacher during an interaction that moved from a joke about his “aura” to screen addiction, drug abuse…
The fire left at least 22 dead At least 22 people were killed and several others injured after a fire broke out at a wedding party in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, a regional mayor said on Saturday.The fire started late Friday night and continued into the early hours of Saturday…
Govt has issued office memoranda making Aadhaar linking mandatory several times Over 3,100 DBT schemes and 360 public services use Aadhaar-based authentication. Yet the bureaucracy that demands Aadhaar from citizens, often the poorest, has resisted linking their own Central Govt Health Scheme cards to Aadhaar.CGHS beneficiaries include serving and retired central govt employees and family…
Mercedes driver Andrea Kimi Antonelli of Italy (AP Photo) For decades, Italian Formula 1 fans have dreamed of seeing one of their own arrive at Monza with the world championship within reach. In 2026, that wait finally ended. Andrea Kimi Antonelli heads into the Italian Grand Prix as the Formula 1 World Championship leader, becoming…
