New Zealand’s Rachin Ravindra and Will Young celebrate after winning the first test match between India and New Zealand at M Chinnaswamy Stadium, in Bengaluru, 2024. (PTI Photo) New Zealand have called up Will Young to their Test squad after Kane Williamson retired from all international cricket on Friday during the ongoing series against England.Young…
Health minister U T Khader holds a review meeting at Wenlock District Hospital in Mangaluru on Saturday Mangaluru: Due to supply chain disruptions caused by the crisis in West Asia, Wenlock District Hospital is likely to face a potential shortage of helium, which may impact its MRI services in the near future.The issue was brought…
Hasan Piker is facing federal scrutiny after the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control reportedly issued subpoenas connected to his March 2026 Cuba trip. Authorities are investigating whether participants violated U.S. sanctions laws through financial or travel-related activities involving Cuban government-linked entities. HasanAbi denied wrongdoing, saying, “we stayed at the right hotel btw.” The…
A quiet moment inside a digital archive search has led to something that experts are calling a major literary breakthrough. Researchers studying a medieval manuscript in Rome reportedly stumbled upon what appears to be the oldest surviving English poem. The discovery was not made during an excavation or field study, but through digitised pages viewed…
Sachin Tendulkar with Harbhajan Singh (File Photo) MUMBAI: It was a balmy Friday in Mumbai, and the CK Nayudu Hall at the Brabourne Stadium got warmer with emotion as members of the Legends Club congregated to celebrate Sachin Tendulkar’s 53rd birthday. Nuanced conversations followed, anecdotes were narrated, generous dips into nostalgia pools were taken, and…
A major security scare unfolded near the White House on Saturday evening after multiple gunshots were heard close to the presidential complex, prompting an immediate lockdown response from law enforcement agencies and forcing journalists covering the White House to run for shelter. The US Secret Service shot down a person, reportedly the suspect, near the…
Rain lashed parts of Punjab and Haryana on Friday, with temperatures hovering below normal limits.For the second consecutive day, rain lashed Chandigarh throughout the day, and the showers led to a sharp drop in mercury here. The maximum here dropped to 18.8 degrees Celsius, ten notches below normal, according to the MeT.Ambala, Panchkula, Narnaul, Rohtak,…
Schools reopen across Karnataka Bengaluru: After a long wait, an AI-based facial recognition attendance system has been launched at pre-university colleges.Under the initiative named ‘Nirantara,’ instead of a roll call, lecturers just take a quick group photo of the classroom on their mobile phones to mark attendance. The daily attendance data captured through the system…
Mangaluru: The newly constructed Shakti Research and Training Centre, established by the Shakti Educational Trust at Shakti Nagar, with support from HPCL’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiative, was inaugurated recently.Dakshina Kannada MP Captain Brijesh Chowta inaugurated the centre. HPCL director (human resources) KS Shetty inaugurated the centre’s main room, while HPCL CSR chief general manager…
NEW DELHI: The women’s reservation bill was defeated in the Lok Sabha on Friday, as it failed to secure the required two-thirds majority after two days of intense debate over the bill and the proposed delimitation exercise.The Constitution Amendment Bill could not pass, with the ruling NDA falling short of the numbers needed to push…
