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NEW DELHI: The city reeled under extreme heat for the fourth consecutive day on Friday, with the maximum temperature soaring to 41 degrees Celsius, the highest of the season, before an unexpected spell of rain cooled it down considerably. Strong thunderstorms, intense rain and gusty winds swept across Delhi-NCR in the evening, catching both residents...

Pahalgam valley (PTI image) Haptnar (Anantnag): His scorched hands and bullet-riddled body told a story of courage and sacrifice. Pony-wallah Syed Adil Hussain Shah, who grabbed a terrorist’s rifle barrel to save tourists during the horrific massacre in Pahalgam’s Baisaran Valley last year, came to embody Kashmir’s spirit and India’s soul in his final act...

Fauja Singh (File photo) An 80-year British Sikh man is running the London Marathon for the first time on April 26, inspired by Fauja Singh who encouraged him to take up walking initially.Baldev Singh Bains is doing the marathon to raise money for the Fauja Singh Clubhouse, being built in Fauja’s memory in Redbridge, on...

Gujarat Titans’ captain Shubman Gill (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki) Shubman Gill’s classy 86 anchored Gujarat Titans to a convincing five-wicket win over Kolkata Knight Riders in the IPL 2026 on Friday, after Kagiso Rabada and Mohammed Siraj had earlier set up the victory with a disciplined and incisive new-ball spell. Rabada (3/29) and Siraj (2/23) ripped...

KKR and GT players after the match in Ahmedabad. (Pic credit: IPL) NEW DELHI: Gujarat Titans’ resurgence in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2026 continued on Friday as they registered a comfortable five-wicket win over struggling Kolkata Knight Riders at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad. After starting the IPL 2026 season with two defeats,...

Jailed Nashik astrologer Kharat’s aide, wife die in Samruddhi Expressway accident NASHIK: Jailed astrologer Ashok Kharat’s close associate, Jitendra Shelke (50), and his wife, Anuradha (45), died when their car rammed a slow-moving truck on Samruddhi highway in Kopargaon taluka of Ahilyanagar district on Friday. Their 14-year-old son, Sujit, was critically injured and is admitted...

TOI correspondent from Washington: US President Donald Trump announced on Friday that Iran has agreed to give up its enriched uranium and reopen the Strait of Hormuz – in return for unspecified rewards and concessions, according to reports.In a series of social media posts that was neither confirmed nor contested by Iran, Trump said the...

TOI correspondent from Washington: The Hormuz horror that was choking energy supplies to much of the world is ending, following a deal between Washington and Tehran that US President Donald Trump said is imminent. Contours of the deal – said to involve Iran giving up its enriched uranium in return for unspecified rewards, including financial...

Delhi Capitals’ KL Rahul during a practice session in Bengaluru. (PTI Photo) BENGALURU: When KL Rahul walked into the M Chinnaswamy Stadium on Friday evening, it was with his usual swagger — but also a quiet sense of homecoming. From security personnel to ground staff, familiar faces paused to greet the homegrown star, who acknowledged...

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang rejected the premise that the company would inevitably lose the Chinese market to domestic rivals like Huawei, calling the idea defeatist. Speaking on the Dwarkesh Podcast, Huang argued that computing ecosystems—unlike consumer products—are deeply sticky and hard to replace, pointing to CUDA’s developer lock-in as a structural advantage. He also said...