Category: Events

Banks to remain shut for 5 days Do you have a pending bank visit, payment or other transactions lined up for the month-end? You may want to get it done by Friday!Banking operations across the country are set to face disruption as bank unions have planed a three-day nationwide strike from September 28 to 30....

Donald Trump used much of his address at the UN to list his achievements. (AP photo) US President Donald Trump returned to the United Nations podium Tuesday wearing two very different hats. One moment he was the global peacemaker who had “ended eight wars”, the next he was threatening to wipe out Iran.The gap between...

Alwin, who was working in the UAE, last contacted his family around July 20, his elder brother said on Tuesday. UDUPI: A Kundapur man from Karnataka’s Udupi district was allegedly murdered in Sharjah in July, with his body later discovered in nine pieces, his brother told reporters on Tuesday.Alwin, who was working in the UAE,...

The other side of America’s only grandmaster Irina Krush NEW DELHI: For most of its history, American women’s chess had a very simple relationship with the Olympiad podium. It did not have one. Not once, in over four decades of trying, had the United States women’s team finished among the medals at chess’s biennial team...

File photo: An FBI agent walks inside the front entrance of ex-Trump national security adviser John Bolton’s Washington office (AP Photo) The FBI is investigating an apparent cyberattack on its job application website after the hacking group ShinyHunters claimed it stole more than 2 terabytes of data containing sensitive personal information about thousands of FBI...

US, Iran hold surprise talks through mediators as Tehran sets conditions to end war US President Donald Trump said US and Iranian officials held an unexpected meeting on Tuesday, even as he warned in his address to the UN General Assembly that he could “annihilate” Iran if a deal is not reached soon to end...

Nagoya: India’s Aadhya Tiwari and Jay Meena (PTI Photo) Jay Meena scripted a piece of history for India at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games 2026, assuring the country of its first-ever medal in soft tennis after reaching the men’s singles semi-finals.Meena edged past the Philippines’ Sherwin Nuguit in a gripping quarter-final, winning 4-3 in a contest...

The boy had allegedly been stalking the Class 10 student for nearly a year, according to her family’s complaint. BHOPAL: On the day a Class 10 student was molested on a road in Bihar’s Jamui, a 16-year-old girl nearly 1,000km away in MP’s Gwalior was allegedly raped by her 17-year-old neighbour after he blackmailed her...

PM Modi and Canadian PM Mark Carney (File photo) NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to visit Canada in December to seal the trade deal between New Delhi and Ottawa, Canadian PM Mark Carney said on Tuesday.Speaking on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York, Carney said that the relationship...

IIT-Bombay Prof Suryanarayana Doolla MUMBAI: Sahil Wakode’s father Ravindra said he would begin a hunger strike from Wednesday if IIT-Bombay officials named in the case were not arrested, four days after the second-year BTech student died by suicide on campus.Ravindra, who arrived in Mumbai, met city crime branch officers before making the announcement. He and...