Thane/Mumbai: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday appeared before the Bhiwandi magistrate’s court to furnish a fresh surety in a 2014 defamation case filed by an RSS activist, naming the party’s Maharashtra chief Harshwardhan Sapkal as his new guarantor. Gandhi, on his way to the court in Maharashtra’s Thane district, faced a black-flag protest by…
New Delhi: India and Brazil on Saturday set a bilateral trade target of more than USD 20 billion in the next five years, after Prime Minister Narendra Modi held wide-ranging talks with Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva, focussing in the areas of critical minerals and security. Modi said the relations between India and…
New Delhi/Amaravati: The Andhra Pradesh government has signed seven agreements at the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, with most of them directed towards higher education, advanced skilling, and school transformation. The pacts were signed on Friday in the presence of Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu, as the state is choosing to build its AI…
New Delhi: Through cutting-edge hologram technology and the power of artificial intelligence, ‘Lord Krishna’ and warrior ‘Arjuna’ from the epic Mahabharat have assumed a hi-tech digital avatar at a pavilion of the AI Impact Summit in Delhi. At the ‘Jio Intelligence’ pavilion of Reliance Industries, the company has also given a glimpse of the making…
By D. Nagarjuna Watching a film in a theatre offers an immersive experience that simply cannot be replicated on a small screen or even in a home theatre. My decision to watch Hey Balwant on the first day of its release was further encouraged by the presence of Shivani Nagaram—known for Little Hearts—who plays the…
From T. Shesh Narayan, Former Secretary, HCA Your Lordship, I write this letter with deep concern over the recent press release purportedly issued by an unauthorized and truncated Apex Council of the Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA), announcing the appointment of a Returning Officer to conduct elections for the posts of Secretary and Treasurer. It is…
When the Supreme Court of the United States struck down a substantial portion of President Donald Trump’s emergency tariff regime, it did more than deliver a legal rebuke. It detonated the fiscal arithmetic of his administration, undercut his negotiating leverage abroad, and injected fresh uncertainty into global trade diplomacy—particularly the much-anticipated India–US trade deal. For…
Colombo: Pakistan head coach Mike Hesson on Friday dismissed claims that the demotion of batting stalwart Babar Azam and the omission of pace spearhead Shaheen Shah Afridi for the Namibia match were knee-jerk reactions of the crushing defeat against India in the T20 World Cup, maintaining the decisions were purely tactical. India outclassed Pakistan by…
Pallekele (Sri Lanka): Australian captain Mitchell Marsh on Friday described the team’s group-stage exit from the T20 World Cup as a “missed opportunity” but still believed he had the squad to go all the way in the tournament. Australia, one of the giants of limited-overs cricket with six ODI and one T20 World Cup title…
Meerut: RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat on Friday said the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh is not driven by any desire for political power and is solely committed to organising the entire Hindu society and fostering character-building among individuals. Interacting with around 950 national and international sportspersons at Madhav Kunj in Shatabdi Nagar here, Bhagwat emphasised the importance…
