Faced pressure to arrest Balasaheb Thackeray : Ex-ATS chief book MUMBAI: Nearly a decade after retiring from the police force, former Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) chief K P Raghuvanshi has said he faced pressure during his career to arrest senior political figures, including Shiv Sena founder Bal Thackeray and RSS functionary Indresh Kumar. According to…
Harvard University (AP image) Harvard University has issued an apology after a social media post by its Department of South Asian Studies featuring artwork related to its Sanskrit programme sparked allegations of insensitivity and bias online.The controversy began after an image used to represent Harvard’s Elementary Sanskrit course drew criticism on social media. The Coalition…
Anthropic is locked in a high-stakes standoff with the Trump administration after refusing to give the Pentagon unrestricted access to its Claude AI model. The company drew a line at mass surveillance and autonomous weapons. In response, Trump ordered a government-wide ban on Anthropic’s technology, while Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth designated it a “supply chain…
NEW DELHI: Congress leader and party’s deputy leader in Lok Sabha Gaurav Gogoi is likely to contest the upcoming Assam assembly election from Jorhat constituency, news agency ANI reported, citing party sources.This comes as the grand-old-party finalised candidates for as many as 40 seats during the Central Election Committee meeting held on Friday. “Congress will…
The equation is familiar for Pakistan: win big, and move on. (Image credit: Agencies) Pakistan’s road to the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2026 semi-finals has boiled down to one simple equation after England’s dramatic four-wicket victory over New Zealand reshaped the Group 2 table in Colombo.England, led by Harry Brook, finished the Super 8…
KOCHI: A division bench of the Kerala high court on Friday stayed the single bench order that halted the release and public exhibition of the film, ‘The Kerala Story 2 – Goes Beyond’.The bench, comprising Justices Sushrut Arvind Dharmadhikari and P V Balakrishnan, gave the order on appeals filed by Vipul Amrutlal Shah, proprietor of…
The release date of ‘Dhurandhar 2’ and ‘Toxic’ is just 19 days away and the makers of both films have done little to confirm or deny the rumours floating around on the internet. Amid growing buzz that ‘Dhurandhar 2’, starring Ranveer Singh in the lead, will bite the bullet and bow out of a clash,…
The deceased were identified as Balmukund Khetan, his wife Priyanka Khetan, and their nine-year-old daughter Bhavya Khetan SURAT: Days after a mass suicide shocked Surat, the man accused of pushing the Khetan family to the brink has been arrested in Delhi. Vaibhav Rungta was detained after police recovered a three-page suicide note and recorded testimonies…
OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman on Saturday announced that the company has reached an agreement with the US Department of War to deploy its AI models within the authority’s classified network. The development comes at a time when US President Donald Trump has banned every federal agency from using Anthropic.In a post on X, Altman…
President Donald Trump walks to speak with reporters before departing on Marine One from the South Lawn of the White House, Friday, Feb. 27, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) After US President Donald Trump praised Pakistan’s Chief of Defence Forces Asim Munir and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif amid Islamabad’s ongoing conflict with the Taliban,…