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Lucknow Super Giants’ Mukul Choudhary, attempts unsuccessfully to run Rajasthan Royals’ Donovan Ferreira (AP Photo) In a match where Lucknow Super Giants largely controlled proceedings with the ball, a moment of chaos in the field involving Rishabh Pant stood out as a costly lapse.The incident came during Mayank Yadav’s over when Ravindra Jadeja tucked a...

Germany expects to finalise a major $8 billion submarine cooperation agreement with India “soon,” Berlin’s defence minister Boris Pistorius said on Wednesday.“I am very, very confident that I will be able to sign it soon,” Pistorius told Reuters, adding that he expected the deal to be concluded within the next three months.The proposed $8 billion...

Suvendu Adhikari, Mamata Banerjee, MK Stalin and EPS NEW DELHI: The stage is all set for high-stakes electoral battle as West Bengal and Tamil Nadu head to the assembly elections on Thursday (April 23).Tamil Nadu is voting in a single phase across all 234 seats, while West Bengal will vote for 152 seats in this...

TOI correspondent from Washington: Amid expected taunts of TACO – Trump Always Chickens Out – US President Donald Trump on Tuesday extended the ceasefire with Iran indefinitely, hours after threatening fresh bombardment and predicting an imminent deal with Teheran. The decision, presented by the White House as a strategic pause to facilitate diplomacy, has instead...

AI-generated photo for representation purpose Iranian news agency has reported that the Iran’s Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) issued a warning, suggesting that the undersea data cables running through the Strait of Hormuz are highly vulnerable to accidental or deliberate action. The report, published Wednesday by the Tasnim news agency, cautioned that “simultaneous damage to several major...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday expressed readiness for peace talks with Russia at “any moment and any format”, Reuters reported.The war-torn nation is seeking direct, face-to-face talks between Zelenskyy and Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to Kyiv’s top diplomat, who described a possible summit as a way to reinvigorate US-led efforts to end Russia’s...

The debate over the impact of AI on jobs is intensifying, with Nobel Prize-winning economist Daron Acemoglu challenging Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s prediction that half of entry-level office hobs could be eliminated. Amodei has long warned of a looming ‘white-collar bloodbath’, but Acemoglu believes that such forecasts may underestimate the complexity of many office roles....

(ANI photo) NEW DELHI: The accused in the murder of an IRS officer’s daughter was arrested by Delhi Police on Wednesday, news agency ANI reported. He has been taken into custody after being tracked down to a hotel in Dwarka.Earlier in the day, the 22-year-old woman was found murdered in South Delhi’s Amar Colony area....

US President Donald Trump has stated that the Washington “totally controls” the Strait of Hormuz and described the ongoing naval blockade as a “tremendous success.” However according to a Financial Times report at least 34 Iran-linked tankers have managed to bypass the restrictions and continued operations in the region since the US blockade began.Earlier this...

Russia’s share of India’s crude oil imports in March 2026 placed the month at the upper end of historical high. (AI image) In early March, India was staring at a possible crude oil supply problem – the US-Iran war caused the Strait of Hormuz through which 20% of global crude transits to be effectively closed....