Spread the love 16 Bangladeshi nationals killed in Riyadh sofa factory fire At least 16 Bangladeshi nationals were killed in a fire at a sofa factory in the Musa Sanaiya area of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Bangladesh’s ministry of foreign affairs said on Monday. The ministry expressed deep grief over the deaths and offered condolences to the victims’ families.In a statement,...
‘From every drop of tears, gold medals drip’: PM Modi hails CWG heroes – Watch
Spread the love PM Narendra Modi interacted with India’s CWG 2026 medal winners at his residence on Sunday. (Pic credit: PM Modi’s X post) NEW DELHI: “From every drop of tears, gold medals are dripping.”Prime Minister Narendra Modi had an emotional message for Mirabai Chanu as he interacted with India’s Commonwealth Games 2026 medal winners at his residence on Sunday,...
‘Our mother tongue is as pure as our mother’: Vijay moves Tamil state song resolution
Spread the love Tamil Thai Vazhthu is an invocation to Mother Tamil from Manonmaniam, a play written by Manonmaniam Sundaranar in 1891. (Photo: PTI) NEW DELHI: Tamil Nadu chief minister C Joseph Vijay on Monday moved a government resolution in the assembly making the rendition of Tamil Thai Vazhthu, the state song, mandatory at the beginning of official programmes across...
‘Maaf kardo’: Gujarat rape accused limps, repeatedly pleads for forgiveness in video
Spread the love A video of the accused shows him limping and repeatedly pleading, “ek baar maaf kardo” (Image Credit: X) AHMEDABAD: A security guard has been arrested in Ahmedabad after allegedly raping a woman on the terrace of a residential building and fleeing the scene, police said on Sunday.The incident took place under the Anandnagar Police Station limits, with...
Jharkhand assembly gherao: Security tightened with 750m curbs, barbed-wire barricades
Spread the love Jharkhand Police imposed prohibitory orders around the Assembly and strengthened security across the city as students marched against alleged recruitment exam irregularities. NEW DELHI: Ranchi is under heightened security on Monday as protesting students prepare to march to the Jharkhand Vidhan Sabha over alleged irregularities in recruitment examinations. The students, who have been agitating for 16 days,...
Jeff Bezos says Amazon employees shouldn’t celebrate what was never the goal
Spread the love Jeff Bezos has just been handed the one milestone most founders would frame and hang on a wall, and his response was to wave it off. Speaking to Fortune from the original door-slab desk he built in his Bellevue garage in 1995, now sitting in his Washington, D.C., study, the Amazon founder said bigness was never the...
Why pulse pressure matters for heart health after 60
Spread the love 4 min readNew DelhiAug 10, 2026 09:30 AM IST What is pulse pressure, and what makes it an important indicator of heart health? We posed this Quora query — ‘Why is pulse pressure important for older adults, and what does it really tell you about their heart health?’ — to a cardiologist who explained that pulse pressure...
Legally availabile marijuana in some countries adds to airline woes
Spread the love Process of detecting consumption of psychoactive substances is difficult NEW DELHI: The legal availability of marijuana for either medicinal or recreational use in places like Thailand and Amsterdam has made life difficult for airlines flying there. The reason: Unlike simple breath analyser tests for checking if the crew is tipsy, the process of detecting consumption of psychoactive...
‘Not taking up the position’: Why Laxman turned down head coach job after Dravid
Spread the love BCCI secretary Devajit Saikia, left, with BCCI Centre of Excellence (CoE) head VVS Laxman. (PTI Photo) BENGALURU: VVS Laxman has revealed that he turned down the opportunity to succeed Rahul Dravid as India head coach in 2024, choosing instead to continue his work at the BCCI Centre of Excellence (CoE) and citing family considerations as one of...
More than 20 US warships deployed against Iran in Hormuz; 55 vessels redirected
Spread the love More than 20 US warships are currently deployed to the Middle East for military missions, including the naval blockade against Iran, according to CENTCOM. US Central Command (Centcom) said on Monday that its forces had redirected 55 commercial vessels, disabled two and boarded two others while enforcing Washington’s naval blockade against Iran. More than 20 US warships...
