Spread the love       Rishabh Pant VADODARA: In a big setback to him and Team India, India’s wicketkeeper-batter Rishabh Pant was on Saturday ruled out of the ODI series against New Zealand, which begins here on Sunday. Pant sustained a side strain after being hit just above his waist, on the ribs, from one of the deliveries bowled by a throwdown...

Spread the love       Sourav Ganguly Former India captain Sourav Ganguly on Saturday backed India’s spin attack to be a key factor at the upcoming home T20 World Cup, saying Varun Chakravarthy’s fitness could play an important role in the host team’s title defence when the tournament begins on February 7.India have named a spin-heavy bowling group for the next month’s...

Spread the love       Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman urges the industry to prioritize containment over alignment in AI development, warning against pursuing superintelligence without first ensuring control. He advocates for a “Humanist Superintelligence” approach, focusing on practical applications like medical AI and clean energy, to maintain human oversight and avoid uncontrolled autonomous systems. Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman has a...

Spread the love       People participate in a candle march on Saturday in Dehradun demanding justice for the Rishikesh resort receptionist killed in 2022 DEHRADUN: On the day chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami recommended a CBI probe in the 2022 Rishikesh resort murder case, in which a 19-year-old woman receptionist was killed under suspicious circumstances, Doon-based environmentalist Anil Joshi, a Padma...

Spread the love       Image Credit: X AGARTALA: Five persons suffered minor injuries and at least four shops were set ablaze after an unruly mob turned violent in the Shimultala area of Fatikroy in Tripura’s Unakoti district on Saturday, following an alleged attempt to extort money from a truck driver carrying timber.A large contingent of police, TSR, Assam Rifles and CRPF...

Spread the love       Representative Image HYDERABAD: A 27-year-old woman in Hyderabad allegedly poisoned her 11-month-old son before dying by suicide at her home near Meerpet on Friday, police said.Authorities said the woman, identified as Sushmitha, had been facing marital disputes with her husband, Yashwanth Reddy. According to police, she allegedly administered poison to her son, Ashwanth Nandan Reddy, and subsequently...

Spread the love       FILE -A Meta logo is shown on a video screen at LlamaCon 2025, an AI developer conference, in Menlo Park. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File) Mark Zuckerberg‘s Meta recently made its third-largest acquisition. The parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp acquired Manus, an AI company with roots in China. Manus hit headlines globally in March 2025 when...

Spread the love       The White House on Saturday shared a first-hand account of the US raid that led to the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. The post detailed a Venezuelan security guard’s claim that regime forces were overwhelmed in what he described as a “massacre”.“Stop what you are doing and read this,” White House Press secretary Karoline Leavitt wrote...

Spread the love       Frederick Forsyth, in Icon, explains a cold, vital truth about nations and what holds them together: “An icon. Not a religious painting, but a symbol. He stands for something. All nations need something, some person or symbol, to which they can cleave, which can give a disparate mass of varied people a sense of identity and thus...

Spread the love       NEW DELHI: A 55-year-old man from Jammu and Kashmir was detained on Saturday after he allegedly attempted to offer namaz inside the Ram Mandir complex in Ayodhya and raised slogans when stopped, Uttar Pradesh police said.The man was identified as Ahmed Sheikh, a resident of Shopian district in Jammu and Kashmir, according to Superintendent of Police (Security)...