NEW DELHI: The Indian Premier League 2026 will get underway with defending champions Royal Challengers Bengaluru taking on Sunrisers Hyderabad in the opening match at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru on March 28.The schedule for the first phase of the tournament — from March 28 to April 12 — was announced on Wednesday by…
File photo (Picture credit: Getty Images) Iran has reportedly deployed an elite counterterrorism unit known as NOPO to protect its newly appointed Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei following the assassination of his father Ali Khamenei.According to Fox News, the black-clad special force has been tasked with safeguarding Mojtaba Khamenei after a US-Israeli strike on a Tehran…
Representative AI image (Credit: Chat GPT) Missiles flying across the Middle Eastern skies and the roar of fighter jets over the Gulf are raising a pressing question in Washington: is Donald Trump’s war against Iran costing the United States billions in the name of victory?As Washington deepens its military campaign against Iran alongside Israel, policymakers…
File photo: US President Donald Trump (Picture credit: AP) US President Donald Trump on Wednesday said the war with Iran could end “soon”, claiming American forces have already inflicted massive damage on Tehran’s military capabilities.Speaking in a brief phone interview with Axios, Trump said there was “practically nothing left to target” in Iran.“Little this and…
Changpeng Zhao (CZ) has questioned his ranking in Forbes’ latest global rich list. This comes after the Forbes Billionaires Index annual list placed the founder of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, Binance, ahead of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates. In the publication’s 2026 billionaire list, Zhao, also known as CZ, was ranked 17th with an estimated…
Google, Microsoft, Nvidia, IBM, Oracle and Palantir could become potential targets as tensions in Middle East continue to rise. According to a report by Al Jazeera, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)- affiliated Tasnim news agency has issued a list of major offices and infrastructure run by US tech firms with Israeli links whose technology has…
AI image for representative purpose only On any given morning in India, a quiet choreography of energy unfolds. In a Delhi kitchen, a blue LPG flame hisses beneath a pressure cooker. Hundreds of kilometres away, a freight truck hums along the Delhi–Mumbai Expressway, its engine burning diesel. At Bengaluru airport, a jet roars down the…
Veteran star Neena Gupta has issued a compelling reminder to parents regarding the hasty transfer of property to their offspring. Drawing from a poignant personal story about a friend’s heart-wrenching experience of being cut off after a gift of a house, she underscored that parental affection does not always equate to gratitude or care from…
Airports are places of waiting. Passengers sit beneath departure boards, watching cities flicker past in rows of glowing letters. Flights are delayed, gates change, and journeys unfold slowly, one boarding call at a time.But for Sujoy Kumar Mitra, for 5 days, 17 hours and 28 minutes, airports were something else entirely. They were checkpoints in…
AP file photo In the world of global energy, there are projects that are ambitious, and then there are projects that are “Trumpian.” When MAGA supremo Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that the United States would build its first new oil refinery in half a century—with backing from India’s Reliance Industries—he framed it in characteristic…
