Category: Events

NEW DELHI: Congress MLA Ashok K Pattan on Wednesday claimed that Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah will resign from the post on Thursday after 3pm.While talking to reporters, Pattan said that both the leaders will obey the Congress high command and claimed that deputy chief minister DK Shivakumar will likely succeed Siddaramaiah.“We went to the CM’s...

Photo/Agencies Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) have once again left out their IPL 2024-winning captain Shreyas Iyer from a social media post marking the second anniversary of the franchise’s third IPL title.Shreyas Iyer’s relationship with KKR has remained a talking point since the franchise released him despite leading them to their first IPL title in 10...

NEW DELHI: Tamil Nadu chief minister on Wednesday called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his visit to Delhi.According to news agency ANI, CM Joseph Vijay is also scheduled to meet Vice President CP Radhakrishnan Union home minister Amit Shah, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman, and several senior Union ministers on Thursday.This is Vijay’s first visit...

BHOPAL: A court in Bhopal on Wednesday remanded Twisha Sharma’s husband, Samarth Singh, to the custody of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), a lawyer said.The CBI on Monday took over the investigation into the death of former model-actor Twisha Sharma, who was allegedly found hanging at her marital home in Bhopal on May 12....

Representative AI image NEW DELHI: India’s indigenous fifth-generation fighter aircraft programme entered a crucial new phase on Wednesday after the defence ministry issued the Request for Proposal (RFP) for the Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft (AMCA) project to three shortlisted private sector-led consortia, defence officials told ANI. The bidders include the Larsen & Toubro-Bharat Electronics Limited...

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is likely to be on the cusp of making history, and this may also change aerospace engineering for good. SpaceX has officially fired the ignition switch on the largest initial public offering (IPO) the world has ever seen. The private space giant has formally submitted its Form S-1 paperwork with the US...

NEW DELHI: Former Tamil NaduBJP chief K Annamalai, in a rare dissent, has publically opposed the CBSE’s revised three-language mandate, triggering a fresh political chatter in Tamil Nadu.Annamalai urged the Union education ministry to withdraw the CBSE notification that made three languages compulsory for Class IX students from the current academic year, saying the abrupt...

Photo credit: Zen technologies As low-cost drones, swarm UAVs and first-person-view attackdrones increasingly reshape modern warfare from Ukraine to West Asia, India is accelerating efforts to build indigenous counter-drone systems capable ofdetecting, jamming and physically destroying hostile aerial threats.Zen Technologies unveils AI-powered anti drone systemAt the North Tech Symposium 2026 in Prayagraj, Hyderabad-based Zen Technologies...

A dispute over housing goats for Bakrid rituals inside a Mira Road housing society escalated into protests and a bizarre pig-carrying incident. MIRA BHAYANDAR: The Mira Road area in Thane witnessed an extraordinary scene on Tuesday, a policeman running frantically with a pig in his arms while a crowd chased him, trying to grab the...

NEW DELHI: The Indian Navy on Wednesday successfully foiled a suspected piracy attempt near merchant vessel MV Mashallah 1 in the Western Indian Ocean, once again underlining India’s growing maritime surveillance and rapid response capabilities in one of the world’s most strategically sensitive sea routes.The operation was carried out by Indian Naval Ship (INS) Kolkata,...