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Mirabai Chanu (PTI Photo) NEW DELHI: India’s star weightlifter Mirabai Chanu won her maiden Asian Games medal on Wednesday, claiming silver medal in the women’s 49kg category at the Nagoya City Trade and Industry Center in Aichi and Nagoya.Mirabai lifted a total of 198 kg in the event. She lifted 87 kg in the snatch...

AI generated image used for representative purpose NEW DELHI: A district consumer commission in Punjab has directed a educational institution to refund Rs 84,960 to an MBA graduate after the company failed to provide the “100 percent guaranteed placement” promised while selling the course to the student. The commission also awarded Rs 10,000 compensation and...

NEW DELHI: Although Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi flagged multiple issues over the pan-India Special Intensive Revision of voter rolls, the poll panel was unanimous in its decisions related to the voter list purification drive, officials told news agency PTI.The clarification comes at a time when Indian Express claiming the contrary sparked...

Microsoft kept Salesforce out of OpenAI Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff wanted a stake in OpenAI long before most of the tech industry was chasing one. Sam Altman turned him down, and Microsoft was the reason. Speaking on Alex Heath’s Sources podcast, in an episode published on Tuesday, Benioff said OpenAI’s ties to Microsoft, a direct...

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...