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The base has been heavily targeted by Iran since the US and Israel launched airstrikes against the Islamic Republic in late February The US Navy is assessing what to do with its key base in Bahrain after Iranian strikes caused extensive damage to the facility, with a senior US official acknowledging the scale of the...

Vinesh Phogat NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on Thursday refused to allow wrestler Vinesh Phogat to participate in the women’s selection trials for the 2026 Senior World Championships, declining her request for an interim exemption from the eligibility criteria prescribed by the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI).Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma, in a late-night interim...

Magnus Carlsen on Gukesh vs Javokhir Sindarov World Championship clash BENGALURU: Five-time world champion Magnus Carlsen has pushed back against the framing of D Gukesh’s upcoming World Championship match as a “title defence”, arguing that the Indian should instead be approaching it as an opportunity to gain rather than something to protect.Speaking to the reporters...

Vaibhav Sooryavanshi (2nd from R) and Mohammed Shami (R) during the Duleep Trophy. (PTI Photo) NEW DELHI: Mohammed Shami may be in the latter phase of his career, but the veteran pacer believes young Indian cricketers are arriving with a level of maturity that means they need less coaching and more timely guidance.Shami, who has...

Yash starrer ‘Toxic: A Fairy Tale for Grown-Ups’ continued its theatrical run on Thursday. The film recorded Rs 39 lakhs in India on its 16th day. According to Sacnilk, the film registered the collection from 934 shows. Its Day 16 earnings were 35.0% lower than the Rs 60 lakhs collected on Day 15.The latest figures...

Cristiano Ronaldo listed his 23-acre Cheshire estate with a 7-bedroom mansion for $7.4 million; after more than 18 months on the market, it fell to $6.7 million Cristiano Ronaldo’s former Cheshire estate was listed for about $7.4 million in 2023, but the asking price was later reduced to around $6.7 million after the property struggled...

‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’, starring Tom Holland in the lead, is on the verge of rewriting the domestic (American) box-office record.As per the latest reports on Global box office, the film is now just around USD 10 million away from overtaking ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ as the highest-grossing film of all time in North...

NEW DELHI: “The 80s called, I answered,” quipped agriculture minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan as he posted on X a picture of him from that era. Congress Kerala posted an invented Gujarat street scene; BJP Telangana replied with a fabricated bar scene tagged “Lusiana, Italy”, apparently alluding to Sonia Gandhi’s birthplace.The ’80s came calling, and India’s...

Nepal’s forensic laboratories are in a race against time 15 days after the Bhote Koshi-Trishuli flood, with thousands of DNA samples arriving at facilities accustomed to processing fewer than 900 tests in an entire year. As visual identification becomesdifficult because of decomposition and mutilation, DNA is now the main hope of putting names to 1,265...

A day after the WHO regional committee recommended termination of her appointment as regional director for the South-East Asia Region, Saima Wazed, daughter of ousted Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina, resigned from the post on Sept 9. Wazed’s resignation came amid probe by the UN health agency and Bangladesh authorities into allegations against her, which...