Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin has strongly criticised the Centre over the women’s reservation and accused it of trying to use it as a “weapon” to tackle the opposition before taking up the delimitation exercise based on population. “The Union government is not concerned about implementing reservations for women. If their concerns were…
Special Correspondent Let’s stop pretending the rot in the Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA) is recent, accidental, or administrative. It is not. It is structural. It is deliberate. And, if one traces it back honestly, it begins with what can only be described as HCA’s original sin — the sub-lease agreement with Visaka Industries. This is…
Islamabad: The Iranian delegation, headed by the country’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, arrived in Pakistan on the intervening night of Friday and Saturday for peace talks with the United States, reported Iranian media. A US delegation, led by Vice President JD Vance, is also set to arrive shortly for negotiations, which Pakistan has termed…
New York: Artemis II’s astronauts returned from the moon with a dramatic splashdown in the Pacific on Friday to close out humanity’s first lunar voyage in more than a century. It was a triumphant homecoming for the crew of four whose record-breaking lunar flyby revealed not only swaths of the moon’s far side – never…
Guwahati: The other day, it was Jasprit Bumrah. On Friday, Josh Hazlewood bore the brunt of Vaibhav Sooryavanshi’s blazing blade, as the 15-year-old insisted that he “plays the ball” and “not the bowler”. Sooryavanshi smashed 78 off just 26 balls as Rajasthan Royals chased down Royal Challengers Bengaluru’s total of 201 with two overs to…
Washington: Ahead of high-level negotiations aimed at ending the war in Iran, US President Donald Trump on Friday said that US warships are being reloaded with weaponry to strike Iran if talks in Pakistan fail to produce a deal. In an interview with the New York Post, Trump said, “We have a reset going. We’re loading up the…
Guwahati: Blistering fifties by Vaibhav Sooryavanshi and Dhruv Jurel powered Rajasthan Royals to a six-wicket win over Royal Challengers Bengaluru in their IPL match here on Friday. Sent in to bat, RCB rode on a fighting half-century by skipper Rajat Patidar (63) to post 201 for 8. Virat Kohli (32), Romario Shepherd (22), and Venkatesh…
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday called for time-bound action to position the state as the country’s “deep-tech capital” under the vision “Innovate in UP, Scale for the World”. According to a press statement, at a high-level meeting, Adityanath emphasised growth in sectors, such as artificial intelligence, quantum computing, drones, green hydrogen,…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday announced an ex-gratia of Rs 2 lakh each from the Prime Minister’s National Relief Fund (PMNRF) for the next of kin of those killed after a boat capsized in Uttar Pradesh’s Mathura. The prime minister also announced Rs 50,000 each for those injured in the incident. He…
While the world’s cameras remain obsessively fixated on a negotiating table at the Serena Hotel, the real deal-making—sharp, silent, and devastatingly effective—is unfolding thousands of miles away at the Great Hall of the People. And at the centre of it stands Xi Jinping, scripting what increasingly looks like a geopolitical masterclass, even as Donald Trump…
