Category: Events

BCB issued a statement on ICC communication regarding T20 World Cup NEW DELHI: The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) on Tuesday said it has received a formal response from the International Cricket Council (ICC) regarding its concerns over the safety and security of the Bangladesh national team in India during the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup...

Stock market (AI image) Indian equity benchmarks, Nifty50 and BSE Sensex, continued their losing streak on Wednesday, as investors turned cautious amid escalating geopolitical tensions and renewed worries over possible tariff increases by the United States.The decline was compounded by continued selling from foreign investors. At 12:21 PM, Nifty50 was trading at 26,101.25, down 77...

NEW DELHI: The opposition on Wednesday launched a broadside against Election Commission and Bharatiya Janata Party after 2.89 crore electors were deleted from the draft voter list in Uttar Pradesh after special intensive revision.Congress state president Ajay Rai called for an inquiry alleging a “big conspiracy.”“The removal of 2.89 crore voters (from UP SIR draft...

Image Credit: X HUBBALI: A BJP worker in Hubballi has alleged that she was assaulted by Keshwapur police under the Hubballi-Dharwad police commissionerate on Wednesday, in connection with a complaint filed by Congress corporator Suvarna Kallakuntla.The worker said police assaulted her and that her clothes were stripped off during the incident.“We had been with officials...

Indian presenter Ridhima Pathak (Image credit: Instagram) NEW DELHI: Reports emerged that Indian presenter Ridhima Pathak had been removed from the presentation panel of the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL), local media reported on Wednesday, citing sources in the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB). She was scheduled to host the Dhaka leg of this year’s BPL but...

Image Credit: TimesContent.com (TOI Archive) KOLKATA: Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra on Wednesday shared a poem in support of jailed activist Umar Khalid after the Supreme Court denied him bail in a case linked to the 2020 north-east Delhi riots.Moitra posted the poem on X, titled “You will rise, Umar Khalid”, writing, “You Will Rise,...

Google recently got a 2026 search query wrong. According to a post shared by an X (formerly Twitter) user, when asked “is it 2027 next year”, Google AI Overviews – the AI-generated summaries at the top of Google Search results replied in negative, stating “No, 2027 is not next year”. “2026 is the next year,...

Stone-Pelting Injures 5 Police During MCD Demolition at Turkman Gate NEW DELHI: At around 1 am on Wednesday, a demolition drive by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) near Faiz-e-Ilahi Mosque in Turkman Gate, close to Ramlila Maidan, turned tense as some individuals resorted to stone-pelting, injuring multiple police personnel.Delhi Police have registered an FIR...

AMD CEO Lisa Su recently spoke about the impact of AI on hiring. Speaking at the ongoing Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2026 in Las Vegas, US, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) CEO Lisa Su said that artificial intelligence has now slowed down the hiring process at the chipmaker. She emphasised that AMD is actively expanding its...

NAGPUR: Thirty-seven-year-old Rana Pratap Bairagi, who took seven bullets from radical Islamists before he lay sprawled in blood near his ice factory in Bangladesh’s Jessore district, would regularly cough up protection money. “Rana paid 3 lakh taka as protection money in the last few months, but still he’s dead. We are sitting ducks in Bangladesh,...