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Vaishali Rameshbabu and Dommaraju Gukesh (FIDE Photo) NEW DELHI: On Thursday, the whole nation woke up to a historic realisation. Two of India’s young chess prodigies, 19-year-old Dommaraju Gukesh and 24-year-old Vaishali Rameshbabu, will compete in their respective World Chess Championship matches. This means that for the first time, India has a simultaneous shot at...

South Africa’s Connor Esterhuizen joins Gujarat Titans. (ANI Photo) Gujarat Titans have brought in promising South African wicketkeeper-batter Connor Esterhuizen as a replacement for England’s Tom Banton, who has been ruled out of the remainder of the Indian Premier League 2026 season due to a finger injury.The 24-year-old Esterhuizen arrives with a rising reputation after...

The National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) has directed all FASTag issuer banks to immediately validate vehicle registration numbers (VRNs) linked to FASTags and also blacklist those found to be associated with incorrect or invalid details, according to a report by Economic Times. This move of NHAI is aimed at strengthening the accuracy and reliability...

MUMBAI: A team from the Nashik Crime Branch reached Mumbra on Friday in search of the absconding female employee, an accused in the TCS harassment and alleged religious conversion case registered in Nashik. According to police sources, her husband is currently being questioned by the Nashik police. An officer said that she has been living...

Rahul Gandhi (File photo) NEW DELHI: The Allahabad high court on Friday ordered that a First Information Report (FIR) be registered against Congress MP Rahul Gandhi, who, according to the petitioner, also holds British citizenship.The Lucknow bench of the high court directed the Kotwali police station in Uttar Pradesh’s Rae Bareli district to register FIR...

Congess leader Rahul Gandhi NEW DELHI: Lok Sabha leader of opposition Rahul Gandhi on Friday led the opposition charge and uproar over the tabling of the Women’s Reservation Bill. During his speech in the lower house, he repeatedly referred to the “number 16” in a cryptic manner, without clearly explaining its meaning.Amid frequent interruptions from...

A special court in Bengaluru convicted former Congress minister Vinay Kulkarni (L) and 16 others for plotting and executing the murder of BJP worker Yogesh Gowda (R) in 2016. BENGALURU: In a landmark ruling, the Special Court for Elected Representatives sentenced Congress MLA and former Karnataka minister Vinay Kulkarni and 16 others to life imprisonment...

Boris Cherny, creator of Claude Code, predicts traditional coding tools like VS Code and Xcode will soon be obsolete. He believes AI agents will soon handle entire development workflows, rendering current IDEs unnecessary. This shift will redefine software engineers into ‘builders’ who orchestrate AI, requiring adaptability and early experimentation from professionals. Boris Cherny, the creator...

NEW DELHI: Defence minsiter Rajnath Singh on Friday slammed Rahul Gandhi in the Lok Sabha over his “magician” remark targeting PM Modi, saying such comments “cannot be condemned enough.”Singh objected to Rahul Gandhi’s statement in which he took a veiled jibe at PM Modi and said, “Magician of Operation Sindoor, Balakot has been caught.” He...

TCS Nashik Case NASHIK: The accused in the alleged TCS Nashik sexual harassment and religious coercion case are in the process of moving a Nashik court for bail and anticipatory bail, according to a report by Bar and Bench.Lawyers Baba Sayyed and Rahul Kasliwal, representing some of the accused, said they are preparing anticipatory bail...