Category: Events

Suchika Tariyal assured India’s first medal at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games by reaching the women’s traditional 60kg MMA semifinal after defeating Mongolia’s Altanchimeg Baigalmaa. India’s Suchika Tariyal secured the country’s first medal at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games after defeating Mongolia’s Altanchimeg Baigalmaa 2-0 in the women’s Traditional Mixed Martial Arts 60kg quarterfinal on Sunday.The 36-year-old...

The current round of fighting began in mid-July after strikes on Houthi-controlled Sanaa International Airport. The strikes came as an Iranian passenger plane carrying a senior Houthi delegation was returning from Iran. Smoke rose near King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh after Yemen’s Houthi rebels launched a large-scale attack on Saudi Arabia on Saturday. Two...

West Asia tensions soar; Trump cuts short Camp David stay US President Donald Trump cut short his weekend stay at Camp David and returned to the White House on Saturday, a day earlier than scheduled, as tensions escalated across West Asia.The administration did not explain why Trump changed his plans and returned to the White...

Writer Nasera Sharma at her residence For many literature lovers, Nasera Sharma is the author of the Sahitya Akademi award-winning novel, ‘Parijat’. But as a freelance journalist and researcher, she has also interviewed top West Asian leaders.In the early 1980s, Iran was uncertain. The monarchy was gone; clerics had taken over. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini was...

Barely days after voicing support for Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s call to decelerate frontier artificial intelligence (AI) development, tech leaders Sam Altman and Elon Musk took to social media to preview aggressive releases for their next flagship models. The announcements arrived after Amodei published a widely discussed essay on September 12 urging the tech sector...

The DUSU election results highlighted a contest that extended beyond the traditional ABVP NSUI binary NEW DELHI: Deepanshu Shokeen’s victory as an Independent has emerged as the most striking story of this year’s Delhi University Students’ Union (DUSU) election not just because he won the vice president’s post by a huge margin, but because he...

John Ternus officially stepped into his new role as the CEO of Apple, succeeding Tim Cook after a 15-year tenure. In a recent interview with Fortune, Ternus recalled a pivotal lesson he learned 25 years ago when he first joined Apple’s executive team, the one that helped him overcome self-doubt and impostor syndrome, and ultimately...

India eye record medals at Asian Games 2026 NEW DELHI: Hoping to build on the historic campaign three years back at Hangzhou, India begins its campaign at the Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya with a 500-plus athlete contingent, aiming to better the 106-medal tally racked up at the last Games.While the build-up to the Games has...

Anya Vats (L), Victim Yuvraj Singh Manchanda (R) NEW DELHI: “Sell your wife/do anything, just repay this,” read a WhatsApp message cited in an FIR filed by a senior executive who allegedly lost over Rs 1.2 crore in a fraud racket involving Yuvraj Singh Manchanda’s former colleague Anya Vats and her partner Sanyam Sachdeva. Police...

This image taken from video broadcast by Al-Masirah TV, a Houthi-controlled news channel, shows an explosion at the Sanaa International Airport compound. United States on Saturday issued a fresh travel advisory for Americans travelling to the Middle East and warned of a possible rapid escalation amid Houthi missile and drone attacks towards Saudi Arabia.The US...