Nagoya: Commuters walk past a banner ahead of the 20th Asian Games at the railway station in Nagoya, Japan. (PTI Photo/Atul Yadav) NAGOYA: Torrential rains battered this city last week, forcing evacuations, disrupting train services and even prompting the rescheduling of some Asian Games events. Step into Nagoya today, though, and there is little sign...
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Trapped in traffic: Exam-bound kids take 2.5 hours to cover 4km in Bengaluru
Schoolchildren faced severe traffic delays on the Varthur-Gunjur stretch. BENGALURU: Hundreds of school-children commuting along the Varthur-Gunjur stretch of SH-35 endured a harrowing Thursday as severe traffic congestion delayed school buses by up to 40 minutes in the morning and left students stranded on roads for hours while returning home. A 4km drive took 2.5...
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Australia Tightens Student Visa Rules; Family Members Face New Restrictions
Australia has announced significant changes to its immigration and student visa policies, introducing stricter regulations for international students, working holiday visa holders, and visa overstayers. The new measures were announced by Australian Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke as part of the government’s efforts to better manage migration and strengthen the integrity of the visa system....
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US likely committed war crimes in Iran strikes that killed over 150: UN
On February 28, Tomahawk missiles struck Shajareh Tayyebeh Primary School in Minab, southern Iran, killing at least 156 people, including about 120 children UN human rights experts have found “reasonable grounds” to believe that the United States committed war crimes in two strikes in Iran that killed over 150 civilians, including around 120 children. The...
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IPL media rights: Industry seeks best price-discovery models
IPL Trophy Last week, the ICC sounded the media-rights bugle by appointing a five-member working group. The group’s top priority in the coming months will be to consider all possible steps that can help the ICC retain the existing value for the 2028-31 cycle, or even better it, by exploring the best price-discovery models available....
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‘Body kept in car for 7 hours’: How a Gurgaon meeting ended in HR’s murder
Yuvraj Singh Manchanda. (File Photo, Image Credit: X) NEW DELHI: A 31-year-old HR professional, reported missing by his family after he went to Gurgaon to meet a former colleague, was allegedly murdered, police have said.Delhi Police has arrested the former colleague, Anya Vats, and her partner Sanyam Sachdeva in connection with the alleged murder of...
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‘Do I want to annihilate them?’ Trump weighs next phase of Iran war
Trump weighs ‘big decision’ on Iran as IRGC halts tanker in Strait of Hormuz US President Donald Trump has once again raised the possibility of resuming a large-scale attack on Iran. His repeated warning comes as Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps keeps the Strait of Hormuz heavily in its control and continues to restrict passage...
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UAE minister calls datacenters ‘more important than roads’, unveils new ‘hiding rule’
Representative Image The United Arab Emirates (UAE) will overhaul its regulatory framework for data centres and halt public disclosure of their physical locations to shield them from military threats, according to comments reported by The Next Web of a session from Salesforce’s annual event Dreamforce 2026. Speaking alongside Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff at the Dreamforce...
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Houthis, Saudis, Iran – and the future of Middle Eastern oil
Houthi fighters stand in front of what they say is a downed Saudi jet, at a location given as Yemen In a lightning offensive last week, Yemen’s Houthis took over much of the country’s Red Sea coast, threatening shipping in the vital sea lane that had emerged as an alternative to Strait of Hormuz in...
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In-laws ‘plotted’ B’luru woman’s abduction; how 3 men tracked her hubby
The woman was allegedly forced into a Hyundai Venue on Wednesday evening, triggering a chase. BENGALURU: What initially appeared to be an attempted abduction on a busy Bengaluru road has taken a different turn, with police alleging that the three men who tried to take a 21-year-old woman away had been sent by her in-laws....
