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South Africa and West Indies cricket team (Agency Image) The International Cricket Council has responded to allegations of bias after travel complications following the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup sparked a major controversy involving several teams.Although the tournament concluded on Sunday with India national cricket team defeating New Zealand national cricket team in a one-sided…
Yash Dhull (Image credit: Instagram) NEW DELHI: Life felt incredibly difficult and frustrating for Yash Dhull as he spent months confined to the four corners of a room. The 2022 Under-19 World Cup-winning captain was bedridden after undergoing heart surgery, slowly recovering while battling the constant urge to return to the middle and resume playing…
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said that the Iran war was going to “end soon”, without providing any specific timeline. He also warned Tehran that if they tried “anything cute”, the US would end the nation. He called the Iran war a “short term excursion.”“It’s going to be ended soon, and if it starts…
NEW DELHI: Describing the ongoing conflict in West Asia as “an issue of particular concern”, given that the region houses a crore Indians and holds the key to India’s energy security, external affairs minister S Jaishankar on Monday told Parliament that New Delhi’s approach would be guided by “national interest”.“Our national interest, including energy security…
NEW DELHI: Despite a slight dip in imports due to govt’s impetus on ‘Make-in-India’ weapons, India remains the world’s second-largest importer of major arms, accounting for 8.2% of the global share between 2021 and 2025, according to a new report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).The report also highlights a sharp decline in…
NEW DELHI: The company you keep may shape your life – and if it includes stressful or toxic people, it could even make you age faster.A new international study suggests that difficult or persistently stressful people in one’s social circle may quietly accelerate biological ageing and affect overall health.Researchers analysing social network data and biological…
NEW DELHI: Days after it criticised Bengal govt for frequently rushing to SC with ‘vague and irrelevant’ reasons to delay the ongoing SIR of the state’s poll rolls, petitions by persons complaining against deletion of their names from voter lists saw the court finding itself facing the same issue, leading an exasperated bench of CJI…
Pakistan on Monday announced a series of austerity measures aimed at reducing fuel consumption, including temporary school closures, reduced government fuel allowances and a four-day workweek for public offices, as the ongoing conflict in the Middle East threatens energy supplies.Pakistan’s prime minister Shehbaz Sharif said the measures were being introduced to conserve fuel and manage…
NEW DELHI: The government has directed oil refineries to increase the production of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and divert the additional output for domestic household use in view of geopolitical disruptions affecting fuel supplies, Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas announceed on Monday.The move comes amid constraints in LPG availability due to global supply pressures,…
Anthropic, the maker of Claude AI, has taken the Trump administration to court. The AI company has filed a lawsuit on Monday (March 9) to block the Pentagon from placing it on a national security blacklist – a designation that is reserved for those organisations, or countries, that pose national security threat. This is already…
