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Thailand on Thursday defended the demolition of the Vishnu idol, describing it as a “decorative structure” along its border with Cambodia, after criticism from India.Thailand’s prime minister Anutin Charnvirakul also defended the move, telling reporters on Thursday that “a destroyed statue cannot compare to soldiers’ lives or limbs”.The Thai government further said that the structure...

<img src="https://static.toiimg.com/thumb/msid-126173541,imgsize-761476,width-400,resizemode-4/article-55.jpg" alt="IndiGo disruptions: Airline cancels 67 flights; bad weather, operational reasons cited" title=" Representative image ” decoding=”async” fetchpriority=”high”> Representative image IndiGo, on Thursday, canceled 67 flights, with 63 due to expected bad weather and 4 for operational reasons. The cancellations affected several airports including Agartala, Chandigarh, Dehradun, Varanasi, and Bengaluru. This comes while the...

File photo NEW DELHI: Army has issued policy on the use of social media applications like Instagram, WhatsApp, LinkedIn and others, ANI reported cited defence officials on Thursday. According to the guidelines, it has allowed the personnel to access Instagram for “purposes of viewing and monitoring only.““No comments/ views will be communicated on Instagram,” it...

NEW DELHI: It has been a year bookended by elections. It started with the intense campaigning for the Delhi assembly elections and ended with the surprising results of Bihar. In between, there were parliamentary showdowns, infights and figures emerging and fading away from the centre stage.In 2025, while several heavyweights failed to live up to...

Rohit Sharma in Vijay Hazare opener (Photo by PTI and Screengrab) Indian batting stalwart Rohit Sharma once again showed why he is loved not just for his cricket, but also for his humble nature. After Mumbai’s opening match in the Vijay Hazare Trophy on Wednesday, a young fan tried to touch Rohit’s feet as a...

TikTok may have dodged a US ban but there still seem some unresolved issues about its algorithm. Recently, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew announced that the company had signed binding agreements to spin its US operations into a new joint venture with American investors set to close on January 22, taking a major step toward...

NEW DELHI: After Uddhav and Raj Thackeray joined hands, are the senior and junior Pawar also entering into an alliance ahead of the upcoming local body polls in Maharashtra? Speculation is rife after NCP (Sharad Pawar) MP Supriya Sule said that her party is in talks with Ajit Pawar and senior party leaders have spoken...

Further restricting H-1B visa rules, the Trump administration has ended the lottery system for selecting visa recipients. In a press release, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) said that the department of homeland security (DHS) is replacing “the random lottery for selecting visa recipients with a process that gives greater weight to those with...

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos recently talked about the early gruelling days of Amazon. He revealed the challenges he faced while raising seed capital for his fledging online bookstore and admitted that his blunt honesty may have cost him potential backers. As reported by Fortune, speaking at the DealBook Summit with Andrew Ross Sorkin, Bezos revealed...

Pavel Durov, the billionaire founder of messaging app Telegram, offered to cover IVF treatments for women willing to use his donated sperm—and promised their children an equal share of his $17 billion fortune, provided they could prove their DNA connection to him, according to Wall Street Journal. The 41-year-old Russian-born tech entrepreneur revealed in July...