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Alua Nurman took a selfie with Magnus Carlsen (Photo from @ChessbaseIndia) NEW DELHI: A simple selfie request turned into an unexpected situation at the Grenke Freestyle Chess Festival in Germany. Just before their match, Kazakh player Alua Nurman asked Magnus Carlsen for a selfie. He agreed without hesitation and posed with her. However, right after...

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday accused Congress leaders of putting the lives of Indians in the Middle East at risk by making dangerous remarks.While addressing a rally in poll-bound Kerala’s Thiruvalla, the Prime Minister alleged that Congress wants Gulf countries to consider India as their enemy amid the ongoing conflict between the...

NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday accused the BJP of attempting to mislead women voters and warned them against sharing bank details, alleging it could lead to financial fraud.Addressing a public rally, Banerjee claimed that BJP workers may approach households posing as representatives of the West Bengal or Trinamool Congress (TMC)...

NEW DELHI: Senior BJP leader K Annamalai on Saturday clarified that he was not denied a ticket for the upcoming Tamil Nadu assembly elections, stating that he himself had chosen not to contest and would instead focus on campaigning for the party and its allies.“I had already informed the core committee in writing that I...

Suryakumar Yadav and Axar Patel (Image credit: BCCI/IPL) NEW DELHI: Just moments before the toss, broadcasters announced that Mumbai Indians captainHardik Pandya would not play in the match against Delhi Capitals at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi. Seconds after the announcement, Suryakumar Yadav – smiling, chewing gum, and dressed in the blue and gold...

Amid an ongoing maritime blockade in the Strait of Hormuz, Speaker of the Parliament of Iran Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf has indicated that Iran could consider expanding pressure to another critical global chokepoint — the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.In a series of posts on social media platform X, Ghalibaf raised questions about the global dependence on the...

LUCKNOW: The Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) has busted a suspected terror module allegedly operating under the directions of Pakistani handlers, arresting four persons for planning arson attacks on railway infrastructure and conducting reconnaissance of key installations and public assets across multiple cities.According to ATS officials, intelligence inputs indicated that this group was in continuous...

Amazon has reportedly confirmed service disruption at its Amazon Web Services (AWS) centres in Dubai and Bahrain after Iranian strikes. The company, in an internal memo viewed by Big Technology, said that it expects “hard down” Dubai and Bahrain AWS centres to be “unavailable for an extended period”. As per the memo, employees have been...

Superstar Rajinikanth has confirmed ‘Jailer 2’ is nearing completion and will soon enter its final production stages, with the release date to be announced by the production team. He also revealed that a new project, tentatively titled ‘KHxRK,’ with director Nelson Dilipkumar is slated to commence shooting in August, keeping the actor’s schedule packed. Superstar...

NEW DELHI: Raghav Chadha on Saturday hit back at the Aam Aadmi Party after being removed as the party’s deputy leader in the Rajya Sabha and replaced by Ashok Kumar Mittal, rejecting the allegations cited against him. Terming the move part of a “scripted campaign”, Chadha alleged that it was a “coordinated attack” aimed at...