Hockey India president Tirkey, PR Sreejesh hail women’s team for 5th place finish in World Cup (ANI Image) NEW DELHI: Hockey India has announced a Rs 50 lakh cash reward for the Indian women’s hockey team after their impressive fifth-place finish at the FIH Hockey Women’s World Cup 2026 in Amstelveen. The reward comes after...
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Nepal finally agrees to foreign flood rescue help; India acts on its ‘request’
Rescue teams search for survivors in flood-hit areas of Nepal as authorities seek international assistance Nepal has agreed to accept foreign assistance for rescue operations after initially refusing the same as the scale of devastation from the floods continued to overwhelm relief efforts, The Kathmandu Post reported on Friday. India moved quickly to respond to...
Trump discovers two more things he can rename – Lakes, and his place in history
Trump names himself ‘Greatest President’ and ‘Lake America’ joins his growing brand empire The TOI correspondent from Washington: In what was widely seen as part trolling and part wishful fantasy, MAGA supremo Donald Trump on Friday declared himself in a social media post to be the “greatest” president in US history, ahead of George Washington,...
3,400 SIR forms found at Navi Mumbai photocopy shop; 5 BLOs suspended
Authorities seized numerous printed Special Intensive Revision forms from the premises THANE/MUMBAI: Five Booth Level Officers (BLOs) were suspended after 3,400 enumeration forms related to the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voter rolls were found at a private photocopy shop in Navi Mumbai’s Kharghar, triggering a political confrontation between Shiv Sena (UBT) and BJP workers...
Zohran Mamdani forms business council as JPMorgan, BlackRock, Google & others push back
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is bringing 15 business leaders into City Hall. This move comes as he looks to mend a rocky relationship between his administration and some of the city’s most powerful executives. Mamdani has recently announced a new Business Advisory Council spanning finance, real estate, health care, technology, sports and retail....
From Anaya Bangar to Imane Khelif: The biggest transgender debates in sport
The biggest transgender and gender-eligibility debates in sport (Agency Images) NEW DELHI: Anaya Bangar’s return to cricket has opened a much bigger conversation about transgender athletes in sport, one that now extends far beyond the cricket field.The former Mumbai Under-19 cricketer has received clearance from Cricket Australia to play women’s community cricket in the country,...
AI tests 40 of 100 million ways to 3D-print a NASA rocket alloy & found 6 that worked
Representative Image Washington State University researchers used artificial intelligence (AI) to identify a faster, less costly way to 3D print a high-performance metal alloy. This has avoided the need to manually test more than 100 million possible printing configurations.The advance could eventually make the alloy, widely used in aerospace applications and potentially useful in other...
Houston lawyer buys $15.5M mansion to demolish it for a garden
Houston attorney Tony Buzbee and his wife, Frances, recently acquired 1708 River Oaks Blvd Prominent Houston trial lawyer Tony Buzbee has bought a 15,000-square-foot luxury mansion listed for $15.5 million in the exclusive River Oaks neighbourhood, with plans to tear down the entire house and turn the property into a private garden estate. The purchase...
Two resignations, same scam: Why B Nagendra quit Karnataka cabinet again
This is B Nagendra’s second resignation in over two years. NEW DELHI: Karnataka minister B Nagendra announced his decision to resign from the state cabinet on Friday, just 25 days after assuming office, amid mounting pressure over his alleged involvement in the Maharshi Valmiki Scheduled Tribe Development Corporation financial irregularities.Addressing a press conference, teary-eyed Nagendra...
‘Go and educate yourself’: Anaya hits back at Marizanne Kapp over cricket return
Anaya Bangar hits back at Marizanne Kapp NEW DELHI: Anaya Bangar has responded to criticism from South Africa all-rounder Marizanne Kapp over her bid to return to competitive women’s cricket, urging those opposed to her participation to “educate themselves” on the subject.Kapp had strongly criticised Cricket Australia’s decision to offer Anaya a pathway back into...
