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At Art Basel Miami, one of the world’s biggest and flashiest art fairs, a strange group of robotic dogs has become the biggest attraction. These dogs are not ordinary machines. They wear lifelike silicone faces of famous people including Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Andy Warhol, Pablo Picasso and even the artist Beeple himself....

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday personally received Russian President Vladimir Putin at Delhi’s Palam Airport, marking the start of his two-day state visit to India. PMModi greeted Putin with a handshake and warm embrace, before both leaders left the airport together in the same vehicle. Putin Visit To Boost India-Russia Trade To...

Representative image IndiGo CEO Pieter Elbers has written to employees acknowledging the severe disruptions that have hit the airline in recent days, conceding that IndiGo “could not live up to the promise” of providing a good travel experience to passengers. The carrier has seen more than 300 flight cancellations on Thursday alone, with scores of...

Nathan Lyon Veteran Australian off-spinner Nathan Lyon said he was “absolutely filthy” after learning he had been left out of the second Test of the Ashes series against England in Brisbane on Thursday. Lyon also explained whether he had spoken with the Australian team management after the decision.Australia opted for an all-pace attack for the...

Despite key indices Nifty 50 and Sensex hitting record highs recently, broad market optimism remains limited, with nearly half of NSE’s top 500 stocks still lagging a key technical benchmark.A study by Samco Securities shows that within the Nifty 500 universe, only 40 per cent of stocks are trading above their 50-day simple moving average...

Defence minister Rajnath Singh with Russian defence minister Andrei Belousov (Image credits: ANI) NEW DELHI: India on Thursday sent out a strong signal about the continuity of its partnership with Russia, with defence minister Rajnath Singh emphasising that bilateral defence cooperation remains steady “despite the geopolitical uncertainty.” His remarks came at the 22nd India-Russia Inter-Governmental...

Anish Giri at the Global Chess League (GCL Photo) NEW DELHI: Coming into the second edition of the Global Chess League (GCL) last year in October, the current Dutch No. 1 Anish Giri had a turbulent time. In the span of one month, his ratings dropped drastically from 2746 to 2724.To put things into perspective,...

Search operation launched after bomb threat (ANI image) NEW DELHI: Security agencies on Thursday launched an extensive search operation in Rajasthan’s Ajmer after the district administration received a bomb threat email. The email claimed that RDX-based explosives had been planted at the Ajmer Sharif dargah, the district collectorate and the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant in...

NEW DELHI: Karachi’s Lyari has long been associated with a dual identity. To its residents, it is the “mother of Karachi” – one of the city’s oldest settlements powered by dockworkers, truck drivers, boxers and footballers. To the rest of Pakistan, especially through the 1990s and 2000s, it came to signify something very different: a...