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New Delhi: As Republic Day celebrations drew to a close with the Beating Retreat ceremony, Vijay Chowk reverberated with three of composer AR Rahman’s iconic songs – Oscar-winning ‘Jai ho’, ‘Bharat humko jaan se pyaara hai’ and ‘Ma tujhe salaam’.Earlier this month, when asked about his absence from Hindi-film music during an interview with BBC...

Jay, Ajit Pawar’s son, with his wife Rutuja and mother Sunetra PUNE: Senior NCP functionaries moved swiftly to fill a political vacuum left by Maharashtra deputy CM Ajit Pawar‘s death in a plane crash, urging his wife and Rajya Sabha MP Sunetra Pawar to return to state politics and take charge of the party –...

New Delhi: Supreme Court on Thursday put on hold the controversial UGC (Promotion of Equity in Higher Education Institutions) Regulations, 2026, taking serious exception to several of its provisions and saying that these could fuel societal division and have a dangerous impact on the goal of a casteless society.A bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant...

Dwyane Wade’s wife Gabrielle Union breaks silence on wanting to end their marriage over fertility issues.(Image via Dia Dipasupil/Getty) Dwyane Wade and his wife, the popular actress Gabrielle Union, have had a beautiful and a healthy marriage ever since they tied the knot in 2014.While things have always been good between them, Gabrielle Union went...

US podcaster and influencer Kyle Seraphin called out Texas Governor Greg Abbott for his H-1B crackdown in Texas, not because he does not support it but as it does not serve the purpose now. Seraphin said it is too late and too little to freeze H-1B hiring in state agencies and universities after what Abbott...

Putin with Trump (File photo) US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that Russian President Vladimir Putin has agreed not to target Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities for one week during a period of extreme cold. Speaking during a Cabinet meeting at the White House, Trump said he made the request directly to Putin because...

File image Jammu/Chamba: A joint team of security forces Thursday launched a search operation in Billawar in J&K’s Kathua district after locals reported sighting two terror suspects in a forested area. Meanwhile, multiple such anti-terror operations remained underway in the upper reaches of Kishtwar (Op Trashi-I), Doda, and Udhampur and some other districts to hunt...

KOLKATA: The death toll in the Nazirabad godown fire tragedy rose to 25 as body parts of four more missing persons were recovered on Thursday. Sample collection by the forensic team remained stalled as the experts waited for the removal of debris and collapsed structures. Over 72 hours since the tragedy, cops have not been...

Canada Prime Minister Mark Carney’s China visit is big. What makes it big is as a report in Bloomberg says that Canada has long stuck closely to the US on China policy. Along with historic trade ties, that alignment is now cracking. Canada PM Carney too made it sure that he makes it clear that...

Google co-founder Sergey Brin has made his biggest single public donation ever, continuing his philanthropic practice. Citing new regulatory filings, a report by The New York Times said that Brin has donated $20 million to a new coalition titled “Building a Better California”, aimed at tackling California’s housing affordability emergency. The report said that this...