Category: Events

Trump says US strikes on Iran to escalate in three days US President Donald Trump convened a high-level situation room meeting on Wednesday (local time) to discuss a major expansion of military operations against Iran, with officials weighing strikes beyond the ongoing campaign around the Strait of Hormuz, Axios reported citing three sources familiar with...

An elephant doesn’t need to hear another elephant to know it’s there. It can feel it. Yes, kind of like telepathy, but not exactly. You see, elephants can communicate with other elephants through sounds that can travel through the air up to five kilometres. But that’s not their only mode of communication. They have a...

Cabinet approved 43.218 km Link/Connector Corridor connecting NH-31 and Varanasi Ring Road along the River Varuna . NEW DELHI: The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) on Wednesday approved two highway projects to further strengthen infrastructure in Varanasi (Kashi) by constructing a 43.2-km, predominantly 6/4-lane elevated corridor along the Varuna riverbank and a 46.04-km, predominantly...

Leena Nair Have you ever looked at someone’s job title and thought, “How on earth did they get there from where they started?” Leena Nair’s story is one of those journeys that makes you pause. A girl from the quiet streets of Kolhapur, growing up in a traditional Indian household, now sits at the top...

Prashant Kishor’s Jan Suraaj leaders switch to BJP ahead of Bankipur bypoll NEW DELHI: In a setback to Jan Suraaj founder Prashant Kishor ahead of the Bankipur Assembly bypoll, several party leaders, including candidates who contested the 2025 Bihar assembly elections on the party’s ticket, joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday.The leaders who...

India’s Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli (PTI Photo) The International Cricket Council (ICC) has approved major changes to the formats of its flagship men’s tournaments, introducing a new structure for both the ODI and T20 World Cups while also endorsing a new global competition for associate nations ahead of the 2028 Men’s T20 World Cup....

KNPP targeted by ‘serious’ data leak. (Image source: Reuters) NEW DELHI: A ransomware group has published thousands of files allegedly linked to India’s largest nuclear power plant, Kudankulam, in what experts warn could pose a “serious” risk to the facility’s safety.The hacker group World Leaks posted on the dark web what it claims are more...

Google is quietly trying to sell its homegrown AI chips to a new class of cloud providers, and Nvidia has apparently noticed. According to a report from The Information, Google has been pitching its Tensor Processing Units to so-called neoclouds—specialist cloud firms that rent out AI computing power—in a bid to break into a market...

Representational image The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved seven major decisions covering infrastructure, semiconductor manufacturing, mobile phone production, fertiliser and railway projects. The package includes Semicon 2.0, the Mobile Phone Manufacturing Scheme (MPMS) and the National Investment Policy for Urea-2026, with a combined outlay of Rs 2,19,353 crore.The announcements came during a press briefing after...

India’s Jasprit Bumrah (ANI Photo) India may have opened the three-match ODI series with a comfortable six-wicket win over England at Edgbaston, but the decision to leave Kuldeep Yadav out of the playing XI continued to spark debate after the match. The visitors made a dream start with the ball as Jasprit Bumrah, Prasidh Krishna...