Tehran: Iran’s new Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, is still recovering from severe facial and leg injuries suffered in the airstrike that killed his father at the beginning of the war, three people close to his inner circle told Reuters. Khamenei’s face was disfigured in the attack on the supreme leader’s compound in central Tehran, and…
New Delhi: Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal on Saturday held discussions with Saudi Arabia’s Trade Minister Majid bin Abdullah Al Qassabi on ways to strengthen supply chains disrupted due to the West Asia crisis, after holding talks with his counterparts from the UAE, Bahrain and Kuwait. All these countries are members of the Gulf…
Islamabad: US Vice President JD Vance landed in Pakistan on Saturday to hold high-stakes talks with Iran with an aim to reach a permanent peace agreement to end the war in West Asia that has crippled global energy supplies and caused widespread economic disruptions. Vance, accompanied by several top American officials, including special envoy Steve Witkoff…
Coimbatore (Tamil Nadu): (Apr 11) Tamil Nadu BJP former chief K Annamalai on Saturday refuted TVK’s allegations linking Union Minister L Murugan and the saffron party to the online leak of the movie ‘Jana Nayagan’, describing such claims as “political indecency”. He also condemned the leak, terming it an “illegal act” and urged the public…
Katwa (WB): (Apr 11) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday promised to accelerate the provision of citizenship under CAA for Matua, Namasudra and other refugee communities if the BJP came to power in West Bengal, while warning “infiltrators” to “pack up their bags”. Addressing a rally at Katwa in Purba Bardhaman district, Modi sought to…
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…
