Category: Events

Yamuna river (PTI file photo) NEW DELHI: “Nature provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed.” The words widely attributed to Mahatma Gandhi perhaps resonate nowhere more starkly today than along India’s rivers.From Delhi to Mumbai, Chennai to Hyderabad and Bengaluru, India’s urban rivers tell similar stories. They have been straightened,...

(Representative Image) Image source: Getty Images Having escalated into open hostilities on February 28, 2026, the current United States and Iran war has been going on for nearly five months. In this period, the Strait of Hormuz, the only open-ocean exit for major producers like Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, and the UAE has been...

Bangladesh President Mohammad Shahabuddin is likely to resign nearly two years before the end of his five-year term, according to political sources and media reports, amid growing speculation that the government is no longer comfortable with his continuation in office.“It is likely that he (Shahabuddin) will resign soon,” a senior leader of Prime Minister Tarique...

Amazon has laid off employees from its Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) team, a report by the news agency Reuters claims. This unit is responsible for developing AI models and technologies to create systems that can perform at or beyond human capability across a wide range of tasks. The cuts come even as the company describes...

Anna Hazare started a silent protest in Ahilyanagar supporting Delhi students. AHILYANAGAR: Veteran social activist Anna Hazare on Thursday began a maun andolan (silent protest) in Maharashtra’s Ahilyanagar in support of students protesting in Delhi over alleged examination irregularities.Hazare’s protest comes amid the ongoing Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) protest, which has been demanding accountability over...

Mumbai Police on Thursday initiated a probe after a viral video allegedly showed a police driver threatening student protesters. MUMBAI: Mumbai Police on Thursday ordered an inquiry into a viral video purportedly showing a police driver threatening student protesters with fabricated criminal cases if they returned to agitate. The widely shared video allegedly shows the...

Lovlina Borgohain (PTI Photo) NEW DELHI: India has secured its first medal at the Commonwealth Games 2026 even before the opening ceremony, with Olympic medallist Lovlina Borgohain guaranteed at least a bronze in the women’s boxing competition.The Assam boxer received a direct entry into the semifinals after being handed a bye in her 75kg weight...

PM Modi and Shashi Tharoor (R) (File photo) NEW DELHI: Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Thursday took a poetic swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi‘s announcement on paper leak cases, using a famous couplet by Pakistani Urdu poet Munir Niazi to suggest that the government’s response had come too late.Responding to the Prime Minister’s...

Delhi HC cracks down on stray dog issue with suo motu PIL NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on Thursday initiated a suo motu public interest litigation (PIL) to oversee the implementation of the Supreme Court’s directions on the management of stray dogs in the national capital.“I don’t know about Delhi, but in Rajasthan, there...

The order came after the Meghalaya government challenged the Meghalaya high court’s decision to grant Sonam bail. NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday set aside the bail granted to Sonam Raghuvanshi, the prime accused in the alleged murder of her husband, Raja Raghuvanshi, during their honeymoon in Meghalaya in May 2025. The apex court...