Spread the love       Image credit: Florida Phyton Challenge website Florida held its annual Python Challenge just a few weeks ago. The 10-day competition brings together professional and amateur hunters to track and remove invasive Burmese pythons from the Everglades, with cash prizes awarded for capturing the most snakes and the longest python. While the event remains one of the state’s...

Spread the love       Hockey India president Dilip Tirkey KOLKATA: Hockey India’s true colours are showing. The controversy surrounding the Indian teams’ change in jersey colour deepened on Friday, with Hockey India (HI) president Dilip Tirkey questioning in a mail to the Executive Board, the manner in which the decision was taken even as executive director, Commander RK Srivastava, defended the...

Spread the love       NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday night shared a video carrying a message against abusive language and hate, saying that “abuses never solve anything”, amid the controversy over alleged derogatory remarks made against him by a Noida woman during a protest in Delhi.Sharing the video on X, PM Modi wrote, “Abuses never solve anything. Let’s...

Spread the love       India’s Asmita Dey poses with her gold medal. (PTI Photo) NEW DELHI: India’s Asmita Dey fought back tears after creating history at the Commonwealth Games 2026, dedicating her landmark women’s 48kg judo gold medal to her late father, coach and everyone who stood by her during the toughest phase of her life.The 23-year-old from Tripura, settled in...

Spread the love       Trump changes stance on letting Ukraine build Patriot US President Donald Trump said Friday that Washington has not agreed to Ukraine producing Patriot surface-to-air interceptor missiles, walking back earlier signals that Kyiv would be granted a production licence.“We have not agreed to that,” Trump said, adding that the US has “to be very careful about letting somebody...

Spread the love       S’pore NYP student said she was going to school, vanished, family found Cambodia flight ticket in email Singapore student Siti Aishah Siregar left home saying she was going to college; hours later her family found her passport missing and a Cambodia flight ticket in her email.Singapore police confirmed that the 20-year-old had already left the country on...

Spread the love       TOI correspondent from Washington: The dramatic migrant surge into the Spanish North African enclave of Ceuta is quickly evolving from a humanitarian and border-security emergency into a geopolitical flashpoint, triggering President Trump, energizing the MAGA movement, and causing an explosion of online conspiracy theories linking the crisis to wider disputes over Iran, Gaza, and Nato.The MAGA boss...

Spread the love       Asmita Dey, Harsh Singh India enjoyed a memorable day in judo at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow on Friday as Asmita Dey and Harsh Singh won gold medals in their respective categories.Asmita created history by becoming the first Indian judoka to win a Commonwealth Games gold medal after defeating Canada’s Heidi Quach in the women’s 48kg final.Asmita...