Protesters confront police on the 101 Freeway near the Metropolitan Detention Center of downtown Los Angeles, Sunday, June 8, 2025, following last night’s immigration raid protest. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) Note: The following piece is inspired by Joshua Keating’s If It Happened There which uses tropes and tones normally used by American media to describe…
Brad Marchand (via Getty Images) The Toronto Maple Leafs have endured Brad Marchand’s frustrating exploits for more than a decade. Brad Marchand, along with his unparalleled capacity to incense his foes, has been Toronto’s playoff demon, sending the Leafs packing five times—most recently in a comprehensively won 6–1 Game 7 against the Florida Panthers. Now,…
In a major push to break language barriers for millions of passengers, the Digital India Bhashini Division (DIBD) and the Centre for Railway Information Systems (CRIS) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to integrate BHASHINI’s advanced language technologies into key passenger-facing platforms. The MoU was signed on Monday by Amitabh Nag, CEO of BHASHINI,…
Maharashtra train mishap (Pic credit: PTI) NEW DELHI: In the wake of Maharashtra train mishap, Railway minister Ashwini Vaishnaw and railway board officials proposed major changes in the design and manufacturing of new non-AC trains on Monday, to avoid any dangerous incident. Earlier on Monday morning, four people were killed and nine others were injured…
Footwear strewn near one of the gates to Chinnaswamy Stadium on Wednesday. NEW DELHI: Senior IPS officer Vikash Kumar Vikash, who was among the five officers suspended by the Karnataka government following the Chinnaswamy Stadium stampede incident, has approached the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) challenging the state’s order, official sources said on Monday.The June 4…
Aaqib Javed (Image credit: PCB) NEW DELHI: Former Pakistan pacer and head coach Aaqib Javed has vowed to transform the National Cricket Academy (NCA) in Lahore into one of the most productive academies in world cricket. Aaqib, who took over as director of the NCA two months ago following his stint as interim head coach…
NEW DELHI: After repeated attacks on the Election Commission by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, the chief electoral officer of Maharashtra on Monday advised the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha to download the voter rolls of the Maharashtra legislative elections from its website — “free of cost”.Hours after Rahul asked the EC to specify…
In an extraordinary show of academic solidarity, 18 leading universities — including five Ivy League schools and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) — have announced plans to back Harvard University in its legal battle against the Trump administration’s freeze on nearly $3 billion in federal research funding.The coordinated move marks a rare intervention by peer…
Steve Smith of Australia (Photo by Paul Harding/Getty Images) Australian batting great Steve Smith, speaking at Lord’s on Monday, anticipates a challenging contest against South Africa’s pace attack in the World Test Championship final starting Wednesday, where defending champions Australia are favored to win against the Proteas in the five-day match.Australia, who defeated India in…
NEW DELHI: Meghalaya police on Monday took custody of Sonam Raghuvanshi — accused of conspiring to murder her husband during their honeymoon — from Uttar Pradesh Police after she was found near a dhaba on the Varanasi-Ghazipur main road.A team of Meghalaya police arrived at the Sakhi One-Stop Centre in Ghazipur, where Sonam had been…
