Category: Events

Delhi traffic will face unpredictable disruptions during the BRICS Summit NEW DELHI: Delhi will not be shut down during the BRICS Summit, but for commuters, the bigger worry may be the uncertainty on the roads: a route that is open one minute could be stopped or diverted the next when a VVIP convoy approaches.The Delhi...

Representative Image ​Amazon is facing a proposed nationwide class action lawsuit that accuses the retailer of systematically discriminating against thousands of pregnant employees. According to a report by the news agency Reuters, this includes the e-tailer giant firing some workers after they allegedly took too much time off.​Four former warehouse employees filed the lawsuit in...

The poster was shared by US DHS on its X account TOI correspondent from Washington: The US department of homeland security (DHS) has managed to turn a common Indian surname into the latest flashpoint in America’s immigration wars.In an AI-generated, Transformers-style poster posted on the official DHS X account, a brown, bearded man wearing a...

Image credit: X (Twitter) ​A cryptocurrency investor in Washington, DC, lost more than $ 240 million in Bitcoin in 2024. The incident took place after a group of young scammers allegedly posed as Google and Gemini executives. Malone Lam, a 22-year-old Singaporean eighth-grade dropout accused of organising the scheme, has pleaded guilty to his role...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s original picture from the 80s. Rahul Gandhi’s (R) AI-generated image. NEW DELHI: What began as another harmless social media trend, turning present-day photographs into portraits straight out of the 1980s, has now found its way into the social feeds of politicians has triggered BJP-Congress war of memes.Over the past few days,...

Imran Tahir breaks T20 world record Imran Tahir turned back the clock in the Caribbean Premier League, producing a sensational five-wicket haul to create history and help Guyana Amazon Warriors register their seventh win in eight matches of the season. The 47-year-old leg-spinner returned figures of 5/17 against Saint Lucia Kings at Providence, becoming the...

French aerospace major Safran Space signed key contracts worth over €5 million with Indian space-tech startup Dhruva Space​​. BENGALURU: French firm Safran Space, under contracts worth more than €5 million, will supply critical systems, including optical payloads, for satellites being built as part of India’s Space-Based Surveillance-3 (SBS-3) programme by Dhruva Space, a release from...

Mayawati said Akash Anand, the BSP’s national coordinator, would continue to work in the party. (File Photo) NEW DELHI: Three promotions. Three demotions. And now staring at a possible exit!Well, that’s how the political scorecard reads for Akash Anand, whose “maturity meter” has not just failed him again, but has also put him on the...

Rohit Sharma (PTI Photo) NEW DELHI: Rohit Sharma has refused to look too far ahead when it comes to the 2027 ODI World Cup, insisting that October 2027 is still a long way away as speculation continues over whether the veteran batter will feature in the next edition of the global showpiece.Asked about his chances...

A file photo shows BSP chief Mayawati with her nephews Akash Anand (right) and Ishan Anand (left). LUCKNOW: A failure to repost a social media post appears to have sealed Akash Anand’s fate in the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), with party chief Mayawati on Thursday announcing that her nephew had been “completely freed” from the...