Category: Events

Mumbai Indians’ Jasprit Bumrah during a practice session ahead of an Indian Premier League match against Royal Challengers Bengaluru at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. (PTI) Less than a week before IPL 2026 gets underway, India and Mumbai Indians seamer Jasprit Bumrah has checked into the BCCI Centre of Excellence (CoE). It is not certain...

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has a message for the company’s engineers. According to the 63-year-old chief executive of the US-based chipmaker Nvidia, engineers who do not make extensive use of AI tools are not productive. This highlights how central token-based computing has become to the company’s workflow. Speaking on the All-In Podcast during Nvidia GTC...

US President Donald Trump on Monday said the United States and Iran have held “very good and productive” talks over the past two days and announced a five-day pause on planned military strikes, signalling a possible de-escalation in the ongoing conflict.In a post on Truth Social, Trump said: “I am please to report that the...

A wave of alleged honor killings across India sees families brutally murdering young couples who defy caste, interfaith, or societal norms NEW DELHI: In a spine-chilling atrocity from UP’s Moradabad, a young interfaith couple was allegedly savagely murdered by the woman’s brothers — lured out, bludgeoned with a shovel, and dumped near a riverbank beside...

<img src="https://static.toiimg.com/thumb/msid-129750849,imgsize-108954,width-400,resizemode-4/untitled-design-95.jpg" alt="Ghosts in Hormuz: ‘Zombie’ ships are now slipping through the Gulf blockade" title=" File photo ” decoding=”async” fetchpriority=”high”> File photo A vessel appearing to pose as a scrapped oil tanker has signalled that it successfully crossed the Strait of Hormuz, in what appears to be the second “zombie ship” case in just days...

Dozens of protestors gathered outside Anthropic, OpenAI and xAI offices in San Francisco on March 21 calling on the three CEOs – Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, and Elon Musk — to publicly commit to pausing frontier AI development if other leading AI companies commit to doing the same. Organized by Stop the AI Race, the...

Koneru Humpy (Photo by Lennart Ootes/FIDE). NEW DELHI: In a move that has sent shockwaves through the global chess community, India’s veteran Grandmaster (GM) and World No. 5 Koneru Humpy has now officially withdrawn from the FIDE Women’s Candidates Tournament in Cyprus.Citing a “Level 3” travel advisory and escalating tensions in the Middle East, the...

Riyan Parag (ANI) Former India captain Krishnamachari Srikkanth has stirred debate over Riyan Parag being appointed captain of Rajasthan Royals ahead of IPL 2026, suggesting that the 24-year-old may have benefited from preferential backing within the franchise.Parag is set to take over the leadership role from Sanju Samson, who was traded to Chennai Super Kings...

The Middle East conflict continues to squeeze global energy supplies as the war drags on, sending ripples of concern across markets worldwide. Against this uncertain backdrop, Saudi Arabia, appears long prepared for a worst-case scenario like this. The kingdom has effectively pressed the “contingency plan” button after the Strait of Hormuz was disrupted following US...

“The West Asia war set unprecedented challenges for India too,” he said. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday described the situation in the Middle East as “worrisome,” noting that it is significantly affecting the global economy as well as people’s livelihoods. “The West Asia war set unprecedented challenges for India too. The West Asia conflict...