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NEW DELHI: Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUVs) encompass both autonomous platforms that navigate and act without real-time human control and remotely operated systems piloted from a surface ship or shore station. Once niche tools for scientific sampling and oilfield inspection, these systems now play an expanding role across naval operations and civilian sectors. From seabed surveillance…

NEW DELHI: Rajasthan Royals defeated Mumbai Indians by 30 runs to confirm their place in the playoffs in their IPL 2026 match played on Sunday at Mumbai’s Wankhede Stadium. With this result, Rajasthan finished on 16 points and joined Royal Challengers Bengaluru, Gujarat Titans and Sunrisers Hyderabad in the knockout stage. MI’s defeat also ended…

Virat Kohli and Shubman Gill (BCCI/IPL Photo) NEW DELHI: The IPL 2026 playoff line-up is now complete with the four qualified teams officially confirmed.After Royal Challengers Bengaluru, Sunrisers Hyderabad and Gujarat Titans sealed their playoff spots, the race for the fourth and final berth went down to the wire. Rajasthan Royals eventually clinched the spot…

This is a representative AI image “Education is the milk of a tigress; one who drinks it gets the power to roar,” B R Ambedkar once said. But for lakhs of NEET aspirants this year, the collapse of the examination’s credibility has left the cubs toothless, powerless and far from the ability to roar.For lakhs…

TOI correspondent from Washington: “Iran never won a war, but never lost a negotiation,” U.S President Donald Trump said in January 2020 during his first term. It is a line that may be returning to haunt his second term administration. After weeks of military escalation against Iran alongside Israel, a chastened Trump now appears to…

Rohit Sharma (Image credit: BCCI/IPL) NEW DELHI: On a day when all eyes were on two explosive openers – Rajasthan Royals’ Vaibhav Sooryavanshi and Mumbai Indians veteran Rohit Sharma – both batters failed to deliver at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai.After Mumbai Indians opted to bowl first, Rajasthan Royals suffered an early blow as Sooryavanshi…

As ceasefire talks between Washington and Tehran appeared to edge closer to a breakthrough, US President Donald Trump revived his familiar tactic of issuing public threats towards Iran, this time through a dramatic AI-generated image captioned “Adios”.The image, shared amid heightened tensions over the Middle East conflict, showed a US drone firing on Iranian boats…

Russia launched one of the biggest aerial assaults of the war on Kyiv overnight, firing more than 700 drones and over 50 missiles at the Ukrainian capital in a massive bombardment that shook central parts of the city and left multiple casualties.Dramatic videos circulating online captured the moment a cruise missile struck central Kyiv, sending…

Thousands of people gathered in central Madrid on Sunday to protest rising housing costs, which have made it increasingly difficult for many Spaniards to buy homes, especially in cities like Madrid and Barcelona. Despite the economic signs remaining strong, the housing crisis has become one of the biggest political challenges for Socialist Prime Minister Pedro…

Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards used a United Arab Emirates-based procurement network to secretly acquire advanced Chinese satellite communication equipment linked to Tehran’s drone and missile programme, according to leaked commercial and shipping records reviewed by the Financial Times.The revelations expose how a company operating from the UAE helped supply sensitive communications technology to the same…