Category: Events

Democrats sniff opportunity, Trump fights to avoid a lame-duck presidency As Americans head into the final stretch of campaigning for the Nov 3 US midterm polls, both Democratic and Republican parties are set to field their big guns – and go on an ad-blitz – across key battleground states. Weighing on voters’ minds are issues...

Hollywood stars Ryan Gosling and Eva Mendes chose a unique rustic estate in California as their family home in 2014. They bought a property originally built by the late film director Joel Schumacher using reclaimed wood from three 200-year-old barns. The actors, who keep their family life with their two daughters very private, bought the...

Indian para-athletes Praveen Kumar and Banti (PTI Photo) NEW DELHI: India’s para-athletes have scripted history at the Asian Para Games, recording their best-ever medal haul of 114 medals, including a record 30 gold, after a spectacular nine-gold flourish on Friday. But with a few events remaining on the final day, one question remains: where will...

Melania Trump says she secured ceasefire in Ukraine’s Oleshky US First Lady Melania Trump on Friday said she had secured a local ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine in the Ukrainian city of Oleshky, with the agreement set to take effect on October 29, 2026.The temporary halt in military action is intended to allow humanitarian aid...

Melania Trump says she secured ceasefire in Ukraine’s Oleshky US First Lady Melania Trump on Friday said she had secured a local ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine in the Ukrainian city of Oleshky, with the agreement set to take effect on October 29, 2026.The temporary halt in military action is intended to allow humanitarian aid...

Delhi HC rejects AISA chief Neha Bora’s plea against police ‘peace’ bond notice NEW DELHI: The Delhi high court rejected a plea filed by All India Students’ Association (AISA) president Neha Bora challenging a police notice directing her to execute a bond for “keeping peace” before a Special Executive Magistrate.Bora had moved the high court...

TOI correspondent from Washington: MAGA boss Donald Trump and his vice-president JD Vance have doubled down on supporting Indian-American Vivek Ramaswamy for Governor of Ohio despite a campaign fiasco roiling the Republican party. It involves a Ramaswamy campaign ad appearing to ignore and belittle the childhood sexual abuse trauma of his Democratic opponent.The controversial ad...

Prakriti Malla and her handwritten letter that went viral (Instagram) While we are in an age when children learn to type on keyboards and communicate through smartphones, Prakriti Malla, 14-year-old from Nepal, went viral for her beyond perfect handwriting. People often mistook her handwriting for a computer font as the letters are so evenly shaped...

NEW DELHI: Ministry of external affairs on Friday blamed China for failing to establish peace and tranquility between India and China and said that the border areas gets disturbed from time to time when Chinese forces diverge from established patrolling patterns.MEA’s remarks came after Indo-Tibetan Border Police Director General Shatrujeet Singh Kapoor said that the...

‘Why not, he wasn’t waving the Tiranga’: CJP chief mocks VanDyke court order Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) leader Abhijeet Dipke on Friday criticised the Centre after a Delhi court allowed American mercenary Matthew Aaron VanDyke to travel to the United States.He linked the decision to the deployment of security forces in Delhi to prevent protests,...