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‘All my best wishes’: Neeraj Chopra backs Team India as Asian Games 2026 get underway | Asian Games 2026 News
NEW DELHI: Olympic champion Neeraj Chopra on Saturday sent his best wishes to the Indian contingent as the 20th Asian Games officially got underway in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan, expressing confidence that the athletes would make the country proud.Chopra, who will miss the continental showpiece after an ankle ligament injury ended his 2026 season, took to X…
Russia should respond to US sanctions with ‘military deterrence’: Dmitry Medvedev
Dmitry Medvedev says ‘Military deterrence’ should be Russia’s response to US sanctions Russia should respond to new US sanctions with “military deterrence”, former president Dmitry Medvedev said on Saturday, without elaborating on what measures Moscow should consider.Medvedev, who is deputy chair of Russia’s Security Council and a senior ally of president Vladimir Putin, made the…
‘Close ties with Crown Prince’: Sri Lankan MP seeks PM Modi’s help for release of Tamil youth accused of blasphemy in Saudi | India News
Anojan Sivarasa’s family has claimed that he was sentenced to death over a social media post allegedly amounting to blasphemy A Sri Lankan opposition lawmaker on Saturday urged President Anura Kumara Dissanayake to seek Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s intervention in the case of a young Sri Lankan Tamil facing judicial proceedings in Saudi Arabia.In making…
Pakistan third from bottom in WEF gender gap index; women lag in workforce
Pakistan’s women still behind in workforce NEW DELHI: Pakistan has ranked 143rd among 145 economies in the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Global Gender Gap Report 2026, placing it third from the bottom with 59.5% of its gender gap closed. Its score improved by 2.8 percentage points from 2025, marking the country’s strongest year-on-year improvement in…
‘He’s paying him back’: Trump defends Russian oligarch funding his son’s Bahamas wedding
File photo: US President Donald Trump US President Donald Trump on Friday defended a Russian oligarch’s role in funding celebrations around his son Donald Trump Jr’s wedding in the Bahamas, saying the arrangement was “totally allowed” but that his son had told him he was paying the money back.Trump said he had previously asked his…
Flights at Luxembourg airport on hold after drone activity forces shutdown
Drone sightings disrupt airports. (Representative image) Luxembourg Airport suspended all arrivals and departures on Friday after unauthorised drone activity was detected near and over the airport, disrupting flight operations.The airport, Luxembourg’s only international airport, said the suspension was imposed as a precautionary measure to ensure the safety of passengers, airline crews, airport personnel and aircraft,…
Indian & US armies deploy AI and cyber capabilities in Yudh Abhyas wargames
Indian and US army officers interact with each other during Exercise Yudh Abhyas. (Image credit: Indian Army) Indian and American troops are deep into the 22nd edition of Exercise Yudh Abhyas, running Command Post Exercises, Expert Academic Discussions and Subject Matter Expert Exchanges at Auli, Uttarakhand, alongside parallel field training at Auli and the Mahajan…
In 2024, Narelle Zanker turned her 4,000-acre family dairy farm into a classroom; 2 years later, her Dairy Adventures had welcomed 1,200+ visitors and won the 2026 Rural Women’s Award
Photo: dairyadventures/ Instagram In 2024, Narelle Zanker turned her 4,000-acre family dairy farm near Mannum into a living classroom where visitors could bottle-feed calves, watch milking in action and learn where their food really comes from. Two years later, her agritourism venture Dairy Adventures had welcomed more than 1,200 guests and earned her the 2026…
A Georgia city moved a pre-Civil War house out of the way of a hotel project instead of demolishing it; after a $500,000 relocation and restoration, it is becoming a coffee shop
The nearly $500,000 relocation and restoration effort has preserved the pre-Civil War structure, which is now being prepared as a new location for Bizarre Coffee (Image Credit: Facebook/ @Save Acworth History by Mark Turner) A house that survived for more than a century is getting a new life not as a museum, but as a…
What IIT-Bombay said on student’s suicide after AI use in exam: ‘Assured him it would not adversely affect academic career’ | Mumbai News
Protest at IIT-Bombay (ANI Photo) MUMBAI: The instructor and Head of the Department of Energy Science and Engineering counselled a second-year student and assured him that an incident in which he was found using a mobile phone during an examination would not adversely affect his academic career, said IIT-Bombay in a statement issued after protests…
