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Xu Bo, a 48-year-old Chinese billionaire and founder of online gaming company Duoyi, has fathered more than 100 US-born children through surrogacy agencies and reportedly hopes they will one day marry Elon Musk’s children to create a sprawling family dynasty, according to social-media posts verified by the Wall Street Journal.Xu, who calls himself “China’s first...

In a key development in the Brown University shooting case, authorities have identified a 24-year-old man as a person of interest.Benjamin Erickson, a 24-year-old man, was arrested before dawn on Sunday, at a Hampton Inn in Coventry, Rhode Island, following an 11-hour manhunt, New York Post reported. He was sought in connection with a mass...

Ranveer Singh’s ‘Dhurandhar,’ which was released on December 6, shows no sign of slowing down in its second week. The Aditya Dhar film, featuring a stellar cast including Ranveer Singh, Akshaye Khanna, R. Madhavan, Arjun Rampal, and more, crossed the Rs 350 crore mark in just 10 days and set a new record at the...

KOLKATA: Almost everything that could have possibly gone wrong at Salt Lake stadium on Saturday went wrong, as revealed by a post-mortem by TOI 24 hours after the massive Messi mess.Those who had a ringside view of how the mayhem unfolded were near-unanimous about the origin of the trouble. Someone from the crowd of hangers-on...

NEW DELHI: As the AQI climbed to alarmingly severe levels on Sunday across the city, at Wazirpur it maxed out at 500. But Wazirpur was not the only station to score the shameful 500. Stations in neighbouring Rohini and Ashok Vihar, too, maxed out.In Rohini, the scale read 499 for over 20 hours. It touched...

NEW DELHI: Delhiites could see poison in the air on Sunday. A thick layer of toxic smog enveloped the capital, turning the city into a gas chamber with air quality plunging to ‘severe-plus’ category for the first time this year.The city’s 24-hour average air quality index stood at 461, the second-worst recorded in Dec and...

BATHINDA: A targeted shooting in Edmonton, Canada, has claimed the lives of two Punjabi students, sending shockwaves back home in the Budhlada sub-division of Mansa.The victims were identified as Gurdeep Singh (27) of Bareh and Ranveer Singh (19) from Uddat Saidewala villages. Both had arrived in Canada at different times to pursue their studies. Gurdeep...

Argentine football icon Lionel Messi, left, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, second left, Bollywood actor Tiger Shroff, right, in Mumbai (@CMOMaharashtra/X via PTI Photo) NEW DELHI: A tense moment unfolded at Mumbai’s Wankhede Stadium when Bollywood actors Ajay Devgn and Tiger Shroff faced booing from the crowd during Lionel Messi’s event on Sunday. The incident...

NEW DELHI: As the world moves towards AI-led transformation across industries, govt and the broader society, India has been ranked third in ‘AI Vibrancy’ index in a study conducted by Stanford University. The US and China lead the pack.The 2025 version of Stanford’s ‘Global AI Vibrancy Tool’ works with data coverage through 2024 across a...

Representational photo NEW DELHI: In a boost to India’s rotary wing combat capabilities, the Army is set to get delivery of three remaining Apache AH-64 attack helicopters from US, while the Navy will commission its second squadron of MH-60R Seahawk submarine-hunting choppers this week.The induction of these much-delayed American helicopters will plug existing operational gaps...