As panic spread across Sydney’s Bondi Beach during a deadly shooting at a Hanukkah celebration, one man put his life on the line to stop the gunfire. His name is Ahmed al Ahmed, a 43-year-old fruit shop owner who is now being hailed as a hero for tackling and disarming one of the attackers. The...
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IPL Auction: Ahead of the curve — Pandya’s MI enter with little to worry
Mumbai Indians’ Rohit Sharma and Hardik Pandya during the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 cricket match between Sunrisers Hyderabad and Mumbai Indians, in Hyderabad. (PTI Photo) The five-time champions and one of the league’s most ruthless teams, the Mumbai Indians (MI) have almost all their boxes ticked on paper heading into the IPL Auction 2026...
‘Behaved indecently’: Rapido biker held for molesting female passenger in Thane; knife recovered
KALYAN: Police have arrested a newly hired Rapido bike taxi driver, aged 19, for allegedly molesting and attempting to rob a 26-year-old female passenger on a deserted stretch in Kalyan on Saturday evening.Mahatma Phule police station’s senior inspector Baliramsingh Pardeshi said, “We have also recovered a knife from the accused, who has been identified as...
Rohtak bodybuilder murder: 3 accused, including two brothers, arrested in Bengaluru
15 days after Rohtak bodybuilder’s murder, 3 arrested in Bengaluru ROHTAK: Haryana Police have arrested three men from Bengaluru, Karnataka, in connection with the Nov 28 murder of Rohtak-based bodybuilder Rohit Dhankhar in Bhiwani, an official said on Saturday.Director general of police (DGP) O P Singh announced the arrests in a post on X, stating...
BJP’s surprise pick for president: Why Nitin Nabin matters
The Bharatiya Janata Party has once again sprung a surprise. In a significant organisational move, the BJP parliamentary board has appointed Bihar minister and five-time MLA Nitin Nabin as the party’s Working National President, making him the youngest leader to occupy the post in the party’s history.The elevation underlines the BJP’s reliance on quiet strategists...
Population warning: Elon Musk sounds alarm on Europe; flags plummeting birth rates
Elon Musk has once again sent a warning regarding global population decline, this time zeroing in on Europe’s plummeting birth rates. The Tesla CEO’s latest alarm on existential threat to civilization comes after data points to Poland’s 2024 fertility rate of 1.1 children per woman, which is projected to drop to 1.05 in 2025. The...
AI comeback question: Did Sergey Brin help save Google? Sundar Pichai breaks it down
Image: Getty Images When Google CEO Sundar Pichai recently spoke about Sergey Brin spending more time in the office, the specificity of his comments stood out. Pichai described sitting with Brin in front of large screens, watching training loss curves as Google’s AI models were being trained. For a company often portrayed as slow to...
‘Yeh constable ka ghar hai?: Dismissed UP cop’s house in posh Lucknow locality sparks outrage
Image Credit: TOI LUCKNOW: ‘Yeh constable ka ghar hai? Social media users were left stunned after a video of a dismissed Uttar Pradesh police constable’s lavish Lucknow residence went viral this week. The video, shared widely as the Enforcement Directorate (ED) conducted raids linked to a codeine-based cough syrup smuggling network, shows a sprawling multi-storey...
Global health push: Bill Gates on how he’ll use billions in 2026; ‘Next year will be big’
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has now pledged to channel billions of dollars in 2026 towards global health and other development initiatives. emphasizing the role of artificial intelligence in transforming lives. Speaking at Abu Dhabi Finance Week in an interview with CNBC’s Tania Bryer, Gates revealed how the resources of his foundation will be used and...
Brown University shooting: Person of interest in custody; manhunt ends
A person of interest has been taken into custody in connection with the deadly shooting at Brown University that killed two people and injured nine others, officials said on Sunday, after hours of panic and a massive manhunt that left large parts of Providence on edge.The shooting unfolded Saturday afternoon during a final exam review...
