Category: Events

BENGALURU: Chief of the Air Staff Air Chief Marshal AP Singh Sunday — Jan 4, 2025 — stressed the need for strict adherence to delivery timelines, warning that delays could affect IAF’s operational readiness, even as he congratulated ADA on the completion of 25 years of Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas flight.Inaugurating the two-day national...

File photo: US President Donald Trump (Picture credit: AP) US President Donald Trump capped his holiday break with an unprecedented military operation in Venezuela, ordering a surprise raid that led to the capture of President Nicolas Maduro early on Saturday.The dramatic action came at the end of a winter stay at his Mar-a-Lago estate in...

Daniel Vettori assistant coach of Australia looks on during an Australian Test cricket squad training session at Sydney Cricket Ground on January 01, 2026 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo/Getty Images) Australia’s assistant coach Daniel Vettori has backed the team’s call to go in with an all-seam attack for the fifth Ashes Test at the Sydney Cricket...

File photo/Agencies NEW DELHI: The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) on Sunday decided that the Bangladesh team will not travel to India for the upcoming T20 World Cup. The decision was taken at a board meeting held on Sunday afternoon.The matter was discussed following Bangladesh pacer Mustafizur Rahman’s exit from the Indian Premier League (IPL). BCB...

CEC Gyanesh Kumar and Mamata Banerjee (File photo) NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday wrote to Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar, criticising the “procedural violations” and “administrative lapses” in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), which is currently under way in the poll-bound state.Mamata Banerjee called the exercise “unplanned, arbitrary and...

Mustafizur Rahman and Shashi Tharoor NEW DELHI: India and Bangladesh are once again at the centre of a cricket and political row. This time, it involves the T20 World Cup and the Indian Premier League.Bangladesh has asked that their matches at next month’s T20 World Cup not be played in India. Instead, they want the...

‘Dhurandhar’ dominates 2025 box office while ‘Shararat’ with Ayesha Khan and Krystle D’Souza hits 100M YouTube views. Ayesha shared a theater clip, captioning her surreal joy and gratitude to casting director and producer. She vowed to rule with hard work, crediting family and team support. ‘Dhurandhar’ keeps the whole country hooked. The spy thriller tops...

In 2008, Tesla was on the brink of a financial collapse and CEO Elon Musk had just surveyed an ‘army’ of rejected cars. Frustrated by the revelation, an angry Musk said “I want names named. so if someone’s always on the hide seat and is always the root cause for problems, they will not be...

Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela’s deposed leader, has been seen for the first time in clear footage under federal custody in the United States after arriving in New York City, according to videos obtained by TMZ. The outlet reported that it secured two clips filmed shortly after Maduro’s arrival, showing him appearing calm despite facing US drug-trafficking...

Months of clandestine intelligence-gathering by the CIA, followed by detailed military rehearsals and last-minute weather-related delays, preceded what US officials described as a “flawless” operation to capture Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in a high-risk pre-dawn raid on Saturday.The operation, named ‘Operation Absolute Resolve,’ culminated in Maduro being extracted from Venezuela by US special forces and...