Category: Events

NEW DELHI: US President Donald Trump on Friday said Iran’s leadership had called off the executions of hundreds of protesters arrested during a recent crackdown, thanking Tehran for the move.In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump said Iranian authorities had cancelled scheduled hangings that were to take place a day earlier. “I greatly...

Royal Challengers Bengaluru team (PTI Photo/Kunal Patil) Royal Challengers Bengaluru secured their third straight win in the Women’s Premier League with a 32-run victory over Gujarat Giants on Friday, thanks to a brilliant century partnership between Radha Yadav and Richa Ghosh and a five-wicket masterclass by off-spinner Shreyanka Patil. After being asked to bat, RCB...

Har Ki Pauri in Haridwar HARIDWAR: New notice boards citing an over a century-old municipal bylaw restricting the entry of non-Hindus at Har-ki-Pauri, the city’s most prominent ghat, have been installed at all access points to the ghat. Ujjwal Pandit, secretary of the Ganga Sabha, the body which administers the ghat, said the “move was...

The legal dispute regarding Sunjay Kapur’s Rs 30,000 crore estate has now taken a new turn as his widowed wife Priya Sachdev has moved to Supreme Court. She has filed a plea asking for Sunjay and Karisma’s divorce documents. For those not in the know, Karisma was married to Sunjay in 2003 and their divorce...

NEW DELHI: The last bastion of the Thackerays has been breached. The BJP-led Mahayuti has ended the decades-old dominance of the Thackerays in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC). Even the “Brhamastra” of reunion, of cousins Uddhav and Raj. failed to help them retain control of the cash-rich civic body. For Uddhav Thackeray, this was a...

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NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi accused the Mamata Banerjee government in poll-bound West Bengal of “misrule”, moments after Maharashtra civic poll results showed big victory for Mahayuti.“I look forward to being among the people of Malda and neighbouring areas during the BJP rally tomorrow. Every passing day, some or the other instance of TMC...

X, formerly Twitter, has suffered a major outage. The massive downtime on Friday (January 16) marks the second time in just three days that Elon Musk-owned social media platform has been knocked offline, rendering thousands of users unable to access posts, photos and videos. According to performance monitoring service Downdetector.com, a huge part of the...

NEW DELHI: The Maharashtra civic elections 2026, including the high-stakes Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) polls, delivered a resounding verdict to the BJP-led Mahayuti. Across 27 civic bodies and 2,869 wards, results show the BJP-led Mahayuti alliance decisively ahead, as the party and its partners captured key urban strongholds. Meanwhile, smaller players made targeted gains and...

A deep excavation in Indonesia has uncovered evidence that modern humans and an older hominin species used the same cave, possibly within overlapping periods. The finding comes from a long-running dig on the island of Sulawesi, where researchers have reached archaeological layers dating back roughly 200,000 years. The site shows a clear change in tool...