JAMMU: The Army on Friday ordered an inquiry after an IGNOU professor accused troops of assaulting him without any provocation during a checking of vehicles in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir late Thursday night.Officials said the professor, Liaqat Ali, allegedly suffered head injuries in the assault that took place near the border village of … Read more
Prof MGK Menon (2nd from left), Prof UR Rao (4th from left), K Kasturirangan (extreme right) and a few others from team Aryabhata Jawahar, Maitri. Remember these two names. We’ll orbit back to them soon. For now, let’s travel back to half a century ago:A chill breeze rustled through the vast Russian steppe as countdown … Read more
NEW DELHI: Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) endured a night to forget at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium on Friday as they registered one of their lowest scores in the history of the Indian Premier League. Their innings against Punjab Kings (PBKS) crumbled spectacularly in Match 34 of IPL 2025, as RCB managed 95 runs for 9 … Read more
Hoax bomb threat at Kanpur airport triggers panic, 21-year-old arrested NEW DELHI: Panic briefly gripped Chakeri Airport in Kanpur on Friday after a hoax call claimed a bomb had been planted on a 72-seater flight. Authorities later confirmed it was a false alarm and arrested a 21-year-old man for making the call.According to ACP Sumit … Read more
A member of Pakistan’s Ahmadiyya community was beaten to death on Friday after a mob of radical surrounded an Ahmadi place of worship in Karachi’s Saddar neighbourhood.The crowd, having many from the anti blasphemy political groupTehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), forced their way through narrow streets chanting anti-Ahmadi slogans before surrounding the colonial-era worship site. Tensions quickly … Read more
TOI correspondent from Washington: US and China are engaged in an all-out propaganda battle to present their narrative of the tariff war and portray the other side as weak and crumbling in the face of adversity.The Chinese have cottoned on skillfully to Artificial Intelligence tools to launch a series of AI-generated videos and memes portraying … Read more
Over a 1,000 international students have seen their legal status in the United States revoked in a sweeping move that has triggered confusion, fear, and legal action. Since late March, students enrolled at over 130 universities — including Harvard, Stanford, and the University of Maryland — have found themselves abruptly stripped of their visa rights, … Read more
Senior Advocate Kapil Sibal Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal criticised Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar for questioning the Supreme Court’s ruling that set a timeline for the President to act on state bills, calling it an intrusion into legislative supremacy. In another legal development, the Delhi high court dismissed an adultery case filed by a husband … Read more
NEW DELHI: An Indian-origin student from Guntur in Andhra Pradesh, who was pursuing her master’s degree in the US, died in a hit-and-run incident in Denton City, Texas, her family said on Friday.The victim, identified as V Deepthi, was walking home with her friend Snigdha near the 2300 block of Carril Al Lago Drive on … Read more
NEW DELHI: A 17-year-old boy named Kunal was fatally stabbed in north-east Delhi’s New Seelampur on Thursday evening, triggering tensions in the area. According to police, the role of a local woman named Zikra, allegedly known as the “lady don”, is being investigated in connection with the murder. Kunal’s family has alleged that Zikra, who … Read more