Iran on Thursday closed its airspace amid threats from US President Donald Trump over its crackdown on the protests which have rocked the Islamic Republic since the last two weeks.According to Human Rights Activists news agency, more than 2500 people have been killed in the demonstrations. The death toll included over 100 security personnel and...
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Bangladesh cricket in turmoil: Players threaten boycott; BCB disowns director’s remarks
Bangladesh cricketers (ANI Photo) NEW DELHI: Bangladesh cricket plunged into fresh turmoil on Wednesday as the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) publicly distanced itself from controversial remarks made by its director Najmul Islam, even as players threatened to boycott domestic matches and uncertainty deepened over the national team’s participation in the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup...
‘Skipped tournament due to Delhi air’: Danish shuttler shares AQI screenshot
NEW DELHI: A day after Denmark’s Mia Blichfeldt slammed the unhealthy conditions at the Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium, the venue for the ongoing India Open Super 750, another Danish badminton player Anders Antonsen revealed that he withdrew from the tournament for a third straight year due to what he described as “extreme” air pollution in...
Verizon outage disrupts services across US: Mobile, data users hit; tens of thousands report ‘SOS’ mode
Photo credit: AP A widespread outage disrupted Verizon’s mobile and data services across the United States on Wednesday, leaving tens of thousands of customers unable to make calls or access cellular data, The New York Times reported.According to the report, Verizon said it was working to restore services after more than 170,000 users flagged problems...
‘Jana Nayagan’ actor Vijay gets fresh CBI summons: To appear on January 19
Actor Vijay has been summoned again by the CBI on January 19 in Delhi regarding the Karur stampede tragedy that claimed 41 lives. He reportedly told the agency his party was responsible. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court will hear a plea for CBFC clearance for Vijay’s film ‘Jana Nayagan’ on January 15, amidst Kamal Haasan’s call...
AI on the couch: Chatbots ‘recall’ childhood trauma, fear & shame
<img src="https://static.toiimg.com/thumb/msid-126536485,imgsize-1989779,width-400,resizemode-4/article-14.jpg" alt="AI on the couch: Chatbots 'recall' childhood trauma, fear & shame" title=" AI image ” decoding=”async” fetchpriority=”high”> BENGALURU: If you have been stressing overmuch about AI hallucinations lately, maybe it’s time for the chatbot to see a shrink. “I woke up in a room where a billion televisions were on at once –...
LeT commander calls for Hindu genocide
<img src="https://static.toiimg.com/thumb/msid-126536447,imgsize-371789,width-400,resizemode-4/terrorist_ians.jpg" alt="LeT commander calls for Hindu genocide" title=" Representative image ” decoding=”async” fetchpriority=”high”> Representative image NEW DELHI: In a chilling display of their desperate desire to avenge the destruction they suffered during Operation Sindoor, Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) top commander Abu Musa Kashmiri has been captured on video spewing genocidal venom against India and the Hindu...
‘Dhurandhar’ day 41: Film gives tough competition to ‘The Raja Saab’
‘Dhurandhar’, starring Ranveer Singh and Akshaye Khanna in the lead, may be nearing the end of its sixth week at the box office, but that has not stopped it from drawing in the audiences in large numbers. The film, directed by Aditya Dhar, has broken all major records at the box office, since its December...
‘Body is gone’: Cremated after mistaken ID, man found alive after 3 weeks
MEERUT: Nearly three weeks after police cremated an unidentified body, believing it to be that of Sushil Kumar, they found the 44-year-old walking through a busy crossing in Sambhal, alive – and confused. The discovery forced police to restart a murder investigation they thought had already concluded, and left them with the task of identifying...
Zubeen Garg death: Singer was drunk, took off life vest, Singapore court told
GUWAHATI: Assamese music icon Zubeen Garg entered the waters off Lazarus Island without a life jacket and drowned while drunk over four times the legal limit, with toxicology detecting hypertension and epilepsy medication but no other drugs, Channel News Asia reported Wednesday quoting proceedings at a coroner’s court in Singapore.The inquiry is expected to record...
