Category: Events

Argentine footballer Lionel Messi with West Bengal (now resigned) sports minister Aroop Biswas, during an event as part of his ‘G.O.A.T. India Tour 2025’, at Vivekananda Yuba Bharati Krirangan (VYBK), in Kolkata. (PTI Photo) NEW DELHI: Satadru Dutta, the main organiser of Lionel Messi’s event held on December 13 and now under arrest, has told...

Nitish Kumar (PTI image) NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) on Saturday issued a letter expressing its “strongest condemnation” of the recent incident in Bihar in which CM Nitish Kumar pulled down the hijab of a woman doctor during a public ceremony.The incident, which occurred on December 15 at the chief minister’s secretariat...

Former PM Imran Khan (File photo) NEW DELHI: The Pakistan government on Saturday clarified that there is “no embargo” on former prime minister Imran Khan‘s sons meeting their incarcerated father if they travel to the country. The government official also said the brothers would be granted Pakistani visas should they wish to come and visit...

JAISALMER: Six people, including a German couple, were detained on Thursday night for alleged illegal religious conversions in Sriganganagar. The incident was reported from a rented house in the district’s Srikaranpur town, located close to the India-Pakistan border.Those detained were identified as German nationals Swan Baz Bat Jaler and his wife Sandra, Santosh Varghese from...

Chiefs heiress Gracie Hunt opens up about gaining 15 lbs in 2025 and why strength and recovery mattered more than looks. (Image via Getty) Chiefs heiress Gracie Hunt is not playing into the optics game. She is controlling the message herself.Chiefs heiress Gracie Hunt shared a candid breakdown of her 2025 fitness journey on social...

As the Silicon Valley ‘AI talent war’ escalates into a multi-billion dollar bidding power struggle, Google has successfully deployed a ‘boomerang’ strategy to bring its top minds back to the company. While rivals like Meta and OpenAI are offering astronomical signing bonuses as mush as $100 million, Google is winning back its former staffers with...

(Image via Getty: Xavier Worthy) In May 2024, Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Xavier Worthy’s expensive car was stolen after it went missing overnight, the Kansas City Police Department told the Kansas City Star. The car was reportedly taken from a downtown parking garage at Two Light Apartments in the 1400 block of Grand Boulevard....

Team India head coach Gautam Gambhir with Jitesh Sharma NEW DELHI: In his minute and 40-second Instagram Reel, former India cricketer Dinesh Karthik couldn’t hide his emotions while talking about India’s T20 World Cup squad. He labelled the omission of Shubman Gill and Jitesh Sharma as “shocking.”Karthik said: “I didn’t see that coming. It just...

S Jaishankar (file photo) NEW DELHI: External affairs minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar on Saturday said he merely carries out the “vision” of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, likening his role to that of Lord Hanuman carrying out Lord Ram’s mission.At an event in Maharashtra’s Pune, Jaishankar, a former diplomat, was asked if only “one Jaishankar” is enough...

Nine US lawmakers have sent a letter to US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth seeking a ‘ban’ on 17 Chinese companies. In the letter, the lawmakers urged Pentagon (now Department of War) to add these companies to its 1260H list over alleged links to the Chinese military. List of companies that the letter includes are Chinese...