Category: Events

He once used Tony Robbins tapes while cleaning floors to improve his English. When Sharran Srivatsaa arrived in the US from India in 1997, he was not carrying a business empire, a powerful network or a high-paying job. He was a college freshman trying to pay his bills, working as a janitor and struggling with...

Ab de Villiers and Babar Azam (Agency Image) Pakistan’s recent struggles have sparked plenty of criticism of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), but former South Africa captain AB de Villiers believes the players themselves must also take responsibility for the team’s alarming performances.The Babar Azam-led Pakistan side endured a miserable start to its England tour,...

The case involves ‘allegations concerning publication and dissemination of material promoting communal disharmony and also contains allegations regarding illegal transactions, unaccounted cash transactions and funding from suspicious sources.’ NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Monday conducted searches at the residence of Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha MP Nadimul Haque and six other premises across Delhi,...

A 25-year-old married woman was allegedly murdered in Guwahati’s Basisthapur area (Picture credits: X) GUWAHATI: A 25-year-old married woman was allegedly murdered, with her severed head found packed in a polythene bag inside a refrigerator at a flat in Assam’s Basisthapur area in Guwahati, officials said on Monday.The victim has been identified as Riya Talukdar...

America’s Levon Aronian and Russia’s Ian Nepomniachtchi BENGALURU: For most of the 20th century, the Chess Olympiad was one of the few arenas where the Cold War actually played out on a board. The Soviet Union treated the biennial team event as a matter of state prestige, fielding lineups stacked with world champions and winning...

The aircraft was about 50 minutes into the flight and flying at 36,000 feet (File Photo) KOCHI: Air India Express Boeing 737 operating flight IX 415 from Cochin to Abu Dhabi was forced to turn back mid-flight after the crew detected a rapidly falling oil quantity in Engine 1 and later shut down the engine...

<img src="https://static.toiimg.com/thumb/msid-133866177,imgsize-125914,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4/suneel-lodha-instagram.jpg" alt="Meet Suneel Lodhi: The blind 25-year-old Bundelkhand singer who went from singing in local trains to ‘Maine Tere Hi Bharose’ in the superhit Hanuman Ansh” title=”Suneel Lodha (Instagram)” decoding=”async” fetchpriority=”high”> Suneel Lodha (Instagram) Some voices touch your heart, then there are some which directly reach your souls and stay forever in the heart....

A space telescope, named after Nancy Grace Roman. The story begins with an unexpected phone call. In Jan 2011, someone from the US’s highly secretive National Reconnaissance Office contacted a top Nasa official about a couple of curved mirrors, two metres wide, their spy satellite programme no longer needed.The offer immediately excited Nasa brass for...

Govt in a bind over SC ruling on ‘creamy layer’ NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Monday expressed concern over growing incidents of doctors being beaten by the members of political parties in Maharashtra and directed the government to take such politicians immediately into custody.The apex court’s observation came a day after Shiv Sena office-bearers allegedly...

Airport operations remained suspended from 9.50 pm to 11.15 pm, he said. (File Photo) AMRITSAR: Suspected drone-like objects were reportedly spotted near Sri Guru Ram Das Ji International Airport late on Sunday night, triggering a major security alert and leading to the diversion of seven incoming flights as a precautionary measure.Anirudh Sharma, who holds the...