Spread the love       Prarthana Thombare and Vaishnavi Adkar NEW DELHI: The row over India’s tennis squad for the 2026 Asian Games intensified on Tuesday after the All India Tennis Association (AITA) categorically rejected claims that it failed to submit the names of excluded players to the Indian Olympic Association (IOA).The national federation denied a claim made by Sports Authority of...

Spread the love       Anaya Bangar (Pic credit: Bangar’s Instagram post) NEW DELHI: Anaya Bangar has taken a major step towards returning to competitive cricket after Cricket Australia confirmed that she will be eligible to play elite women’s cricket in the country from March 2027.Bangar, who underwent gender-affirming surgery in March, received the confirmation under Cricket Australia’s Inclusion of Transgender and...

Spread the love       China has warned the US that it could retaliate if Washington significantly expands secondary sanctions on Chinese companies doing business with Iran China has warned that it could take retaliatory measures if the United States significantly expands secondary sanctions targeting Chinese companies doing business with Iran, according to reporting by the Financial Times.The warning came after the...

Spread the love       If confirmed, it would mark Ratcliffe’s first known trip to Russia since becoming CIA director A US Air Force C-17 military transport aircraft landed at Moscow’s Vnukovo Airport on Tuesday, triggering speculation over who was aboard and why the aircraft had flown to Russia at a time when US-Russia contacts over the Ukraine war have slowed.According to...

Spread the love       Trump revived his ’51st state jab’ against Canada in his criticism over the collapse of talks Canada on Tuesday announced retaliatory tariffs of up to 50% on about $27.6 billion worth of US goods, escalating the trade war between the two neighbours after trade negotiations between Ottawa and Washington collapsed.The new measures, which will take effect on...

Spread the love       NEW DELHI: Former Chief of Defence Staff Anil Chauhan on Tuesday said India may have hit Pakistan’s Kirana Hills during Operation Sindoor last year, but the strike was unintentional.Speaking at the ‘VIMARSH’ event on Operation Sindoor and its aftermath at the Vivekanand International Foundation, Chauhan said Indian loitering missions sent to search for radars around Sargodha ran...

Spread the love       NEW DELHI: Leader of opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday defended actor Kriti Sanon amid criticism of her outfit in a Raksha Bandhan advertisement, saying “what women wears is her choice.”In a post on Instagram, Gandhi said, “What a woman wears, what she does and where she goes – is her choice.” “Stop trolling...

Spread the love       New Zealand introduced brown trout for sport fishing When British settlers packed thousands of brown trout ova onto ships bound for the Antipodes in 1867, they hoped to recreate the sport fishing they knew from Europe. Over the next five decades, acclimatisation societies bred and released more than 60 million brown trout into waterways across New Zealand....

Spread the love       Still from video aired by Iranian media The US Secret Service has acknowledged being aware of a video being broadcast by Iranian state media that appeared to threaten the life of Barron Trump. They have stated that they are investigating the footage as a potential threat to a protected person.The nearly three-minute video, aired over the weekend...

Spread the love       US widened sanctions on Iran, targeting four India-based companies and three Indian nationals for importing Iranian petroleum products The TOI correspondent from Washington: Four India-based companies – and three Indian nationals associated with two of them – have been swept into the Trump administration’s new economic offensive against Iran, adding a potentially combustible new layer to the...