Image: phclondon The UAE has stopped issuing visas to Pakistani nationals and only narrowly held back from imposing a complete ban on the Pakistani passport, a senior Pakistani interior ministry official told a parliamentary panel on Thursday.Pakistan’s additional interior secretary Salman Chaudhry informed the Senate Functional Committee on Human Rights that both the UAE and...
Sam LaPorta injury update: Injury timeline shows why the Lions are bracing for bad news (Image Via Getty) Sam LaPorta is one of the best tight ends in the NFL, and the Detroit Lions are really missing him right now. Sam LaPorta got hurt in Week 10 during a game played in Detroit, and the...
NEW DELHI: The power tussle for the top post in Karnataka Congress turned ugly on Thursday with chief minister Siddaramaiah taking open potshots at his deputy DK Shivakumar. Hours after Shivakumar posted a cryptic message reminding Siddaramaiah and the Congress high command to “keep one’s word and walk the talk”, the chief minister has hit...
NEW DELHI: Karnataka Congress’s internal power tussle appears to be heading towards a decisive climax, with the AICC high command expected to take a final call on the leadership question as early as Saturday. Chief minister Siddaramaiah now faces a renewed challenge from deputy CM DK Shivakumar’s camp, whose supporters are camping in Delhi and...
A man trapped for more than 24 hours inside one of the high-rise towers at Hong Kong’s Wang Fuk Court residential complex was pulled out alive on Thursday evening, even as the death toll from the devastating blaze climbed to at least 65, fire officials said.The survivor was located on the 16th floor of Wang...
Firefighters continued battling a massive blaze at a high-rise housing complex in Hong Kong for the second day on Thursday, as the death toll climbed to 65 and nearly 300 people remained unaccounted for, according to AP and BBC reports.Thick smoke and pockets of flame were still visible at the Wang Fuk Court complex in...
AR Rahman has shared insights from his personal interactions with two of the most influential figures in artificial intelligence: ChatGPT-maker OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Perplexity AI CEO Aravind Srinivas. During an appearance on Zerodha co-founder Nikhil Kamath’s People by WTF podcast, the music legend said that he has spent a lot of time with...
Alibaba CEO Eddie Wu has emphatically dismissed concerns about an artificial intelligence bubble, stating the company “doesn’t really see much of an issue in terms of a so-called AI bubble” and plans to invest “aggressively” despite warnings from Google’s Sundar Pichai about “elements of irrationality” in the booming sector.Wu told investors that Alibaba can’t keep...
Deepti Sharma, Alyssa Healy. (File photo) NEW DELHI: The WPL mega auction concluded in Delhi on Thursday, with all five teams working to assemble their squads for the 2026 season.The auction began with the marquee players. The first surprise came when Australia captain Alyssa Healy went unsold, while the other seven marquee players were picked.Deepti...
ANI file photo NEW DELHI: The Assam Assembly on Tuesday passed “The Assam Prohibition of Polygamy Bill, 2025,” aiming to ban polygamous marriages across the state and impose strict penalties on those who enter into or conceal a second marriage while the first is still valid.The law, introduced by Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on...
