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The challenges for Swayams started even before the tournament. Getting the team to that stage was a project in itself, with busy, overlapping schedules making it difficult for the players to train together in person. NEW DELHI: Across the open and women’s sections at the Chess Olympiad, only one player won an individual gold medal...

Ellaboudy travelled to Yemen in September last year with the stated aim of helping the Houthis improve their communications capabilities. Investigators said he told FBI informants that he had to be smuggled into and out of Yemen. A US department of energy electrical engineer has been arrested for allegedly providing material support to the Iran-backed...

The knife attack on Smit by the co-pilot inside the cockpit had forced the flight carrying 174 people from Dubai to Tel Aviv, Israel, to make an emergency landing in Tabuk in northwestern Saudi Arabia on Wednesday. Smit, 39, is recovering in Abu Dhabi. Just another pilot until a day ago, flydubai Captain Smit Machchhar...

With Rahul running a campaign against the government over SIR after targeting it over paper leaks, BJP fielded Rajeev Chandrasekar to flay him. NEW DELHI: With the Karnataka government moving the Supreme Court against the high court’s order for a court-monitored probe by SIT into tainted recruitment tests by KPSC, BJP said this exposed Rahul...

(File photo): RBI declined Tata Sons’ deregistration application on Sept 11 and directed the company to comply immediately with rules for non-banking finance companies (NBFCs) in the upper layer category. MUMBAI: Tata Trusts vice-chairmen Venu Srinivasan and Vijay Singh have challenged chairman Noel Tata’s proposal to merge two Tata Sons subsidiaries into the holding company...

The bill, which proposes simultaneous Lok Sabha and assembly polls, was introduced in the Lok Sabha in Dec 2024 and was sent to the committee. Opposition parties are critical of the bill, alleging that it is unconstitutional and violates federal rights. NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has declined to meet the parliamentary committee, which is...

In its petition, the Mamata faction said it urgently required funds to meet expenses that would arise from preparations for the bypolls. NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a petition by Mamata Banerjee-headed TMC faction seeking de-freezing of its three bank accounts on grounds that the party required funds to carry out political...

PFRDA expects 2-3 crore new NPS subscribers over next two years NEW DELHI: The Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA) is preparing a roadmap to allow entities regulated by it to invest directly in large infrastructure projects, beyond the current mechanism of investing through ReITS, InVITS and alternate investment funds (AIFs), chairman S Raman...

According to the probe agency, RHFL borrowed funds from lending institutions and allegedly siphoned off Rs 7,429 crore through a web of intermediary and conduit entities. NEW DELHI: The CBI on Thursday filed its second chargesheet in the Rs 7,429-crore Reliance Home Finance Ltd (RHFL) alleged loan diversion case, naming 11 accused, including three senior...

The first such visit from India to Pakistan since the 2025 Pahalgam terrorist attack highlighted how SCO, which is dominated by China and Russia, has remained insulated from India-Pakistan tensions, unlike the more modest Saarc regional framework. NEW DELHI: India’s participation in the SCO meeting of national coordinators in Islamabad to firm up the calendar...