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India eye record medals at Asian Games 2026 NEW DELHI: Hoping to build on the historic campaign three years back at Hangzhou, India begins its campaign at the Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya with a 500-plus athlete contingent, aiming to better the 106-medal tally racked up at the last Games.While the build-up to the Games has...

Anya Vats (L), Victim Yuvraj Singh Manchanda (R) NEW DELHI: “Sell your wife/do anything, just repay this,” read a WhatsApp message cited in an FIR filed by a senior executive who allegedly lost over Rs 1.2 crore in a fraud racket involving Yuvraj Singh Manchanda’s former colleague Anya Vats and her partner Sanyam Sachdeva. Police...

This image taken from video broadcast by Al-Masirah TV, a Houthi-controlled news channel, shows an explosion at the Sanaa International Airport compound. United States on Saturday issued a fresh travel advisory for Americans travelling to the Middle East and warned of a possible rapid escalation amid Houthi missile and drone attacks towards Saudi Arabia.The US...

Arjun Erigaisi at 46th Chess Olympiad (Photo by Rafal Oleksiewicz for FIDE) NEW DELHI: The 46th edition of the Chess Olympiad began on a murky note, with multiple teams facing accommodation issues upon arrival in host city Samarkand, Uzbekistan. India, the defending champions across both the open and women’s sections, also had to wait for...

The US military claimed it was targeting ‘narco-terrorists’ The US military said it killed four people in a strike on a vessel in the Caribbean on Saturday, alleging that it was involved in drug trafficking.“On September 19, under the direction of Southern Command, Joint Task Force Western Hemisphere executed a lethal, kinetic strike on a...

The move comes as Centre seeks to raise more resources to meet the requirements of higher spending NEW DELHI: National Land Monetisation Corporation Limited (NLMC), a fully-owned govt company, has recommended monetising surplus land and building assets valued at over Rs 5,000 crore.The move comes as Centre seeks to raise more resources to meet the...

Monsoon withdrawal has begun NEW DELHI: The southwest (summer) monsoon, which has so far reported a nationwide deficit of 15% in cumulative (June 1-Sept 19) rainfall, started withdrawing from west Rajasthan Saturday, as against the normal date of Sept 17, IMD has said.The line of withdrawal Saturday passed through Ramgarh, Mohangarh, Phalodi and Khajuwala. “Conditions...

Representative image Stanford scientists have created a new model for studying human brain development by transplanting lab-grown human brain tissue into mice that were engineered to lack most of their cerebral cortex. Within months, the human tissue not only survived but expanded to occupy more than 90 percent of the cortical space, forming working connections...

Harvard students– Radhika Saran, Cleo Pontone and Sophia DeVito– build $6,500 award-winning headset to screen athletes for concussions in 60 seconds Three Harvard students have built a low-cost infrared headset that can screen athletes for possible concussions in about 60 seconds, bringing objective eye-tracking data from the clinic to the sideline. Their invention, called Rumble...

Environmental issues have no geographical limitations, said CJI Surya Kant NEW DELHI: Terming Supreme Court the “banyan tree” of environmental justice for its role in protecting the environment and ecology, CJI Surya Kant Saturday said conservation and development are not in conflict with each other and there is need to maintain balance between them.Addressing the...