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India’s Medal Route to Gold NEW DELHI: India won 28 gold medals at the 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou. Four years later, the question in Aichi-Nagoya was how many of those titles it could retain. The answer? – Eight, out of the 28 Hangzhou golds. That’s 28.6 per cent of the total. Twenty titles changed…

“Rahul Gandhi was reluctant to contest the 2024 Lok Sabha election from Amethi,” says Congress ally. NEW DELHI: Strain deepened within the Samajwadi Party-Congress alliance ahead of Uttar Pradesh polls, with SP MP Shiv Pal Singh Patel in an off-the-cuff remark claimed that Rahul Gandhi was “reluctant to contest the 2024 Lok Sabha election” from…

Shivraj questions Congress over disrespecting democracy NEW DELHI: Union minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has accused the Congress of disrespecting the public mandate after electoral defeats, alleging that questioning the Election Commission and demanding ballot-paper voting reflected the party’s “DNA”.Chouhan said that while the Congress accepts the Election Commission when it wins elections, it questions the…

File photo: Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun attends a press conference in Beijing, China China has accused a US congressional panel of spreading “blatant lies” after the committee criticised Starbucks for opening its first stores in Xinjiang, where Washington has accused Beijing of genocide against the Uyghur minority.Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said…

2006 suicide case naming Gyanesh Kumar triggers Kerala vigilance probe NEW DELHI: Kerala home minister Ramesh Chennithala has ordered a Vigilance investigation into allegations of irregularities involving Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar during his tenure as the state’s Public Works Department Secretary in 2006, news agency ANI reported.The case concerns the death by suicide of…

A medical evacuation jet traveling from Bermuda to Boston has gone missing over the Atlantic Ocean. The chilling audio captures the final moments before a medical evacuation jet disappeared over the Atlantic.The aircraft had reported an emergency and electrical problems before losing radio and radar contact. The US Coast Guard later found a debris field…

Altman’s comments were widely seen as a criticism of Anthropic and its co-founder Dario Amodei. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has criticised efforts to give artificial intelligence a religious or spiritual dimension, in what appeared to be a pointed response to work being explored by rival AI company Anthropic.Altman said he was “very uncomfortable” with attempts…

India’s Neeru Dhanda (PTI Photo) NEW DELHI: Days before leaving for the Asian Games 2026, Neeru Dhanda was hospitalised with viral fever. She had barely any time to recover before boarding the flight to Japan. There was no proper recovery period. Just medicines, ORS, and a dream of winning a medal at the Asian Games.When…

A broken test tube inside a laboratory is at the centre of a disturbing medical mystery in Siberia.A 28-year-old laboratory worker in Russia’s Irkutsk region has died after reportedly being exposed to live plague bacteria, with local reports saying the exposure may have happened when a test tube broke while she was handling samples. Nearly…

West Indies’ captain Shai Hope celebrates his century (AP Photo) Shai Hope turned to advice from former India captain MS Dhoni to pace his innings as West Indies chased down their highest-ever ODI target against India and signed off the series with a five-wicket win on Saturday.Hope produced an unbeaten 162 off 143 balls, his…