Novak Djokovic and MS Dhoni Indian women’s cricket team all-rounder Deepti Sharma has compared former India captain MS Dhoni‘s composure under pressure to that of tennis great Novak Djokovic, saying both sporting icons possess a rare ability to stay calm when the stakes are highest.Deepti, who is attending Wimbledon for the first time, described the…
Udupi: Social activist Satwaadi Mithun Shetty, proprietor of New Medicals, Kundapur, has submitted a policy proposal titled ‘One Nation, One Health’ (ONOH) to the Union and state govts, seeking a single, universal health insurance scheme offering completely free healthcare to every Indian citizen, irrespective of caste, age, gender, income or medical condition.The proposal has been…
X, formerly Twitter, has suffered a major global outage. The massive downtime on Wednesday (March 18) has been knocked the social media offline, rendering thousands of users in India and the US unable to access posts, photos and videos. According to performance monitoring service Downdetector.com, a large part of the user base claims issues with…
pic for representation only Mangaluru: Peak festive traffic over the long weekend delayed several buses on the Bengaluru-Mangaluru route by up to three hours, with congestion reported on the Yeshwanthpur-Nelamangala stretch as buses exited Bengaluru and on the Shiradi Ghat section.A senior KSRTC official from the Mangaluru division told TOI that the division operated additional…
Why did Adin Ross refuse UFC Freedom 250 appearance despite Donald Trump planning historic White House fight night? (Image via Getty) Adin Ross has decided he will not attend the upcoming UFC White House event after hearing rumors that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could be there. The popular streamer shared the update during a…
Gaurav Sabnis, an Indian-origin professor at New Jersey’s Stevens Institute of Technology, shared his experience of visiting the Iguaçu Falls and how embarrassed he was as an Indian there as an Indian group created a ruckus, hollering, jumping the queue. Sabnis recalled that it was a boat safari and to reach the boat, the tourists…
Mangaluru: Four persons, including three women, have been accused of cheating a woman and several others of Rs 30.9 lakh by luring them into investing in a purported share marketing scheme promising high returns.According to the police, the four visited the complainant’s residence in Kodi village, Udupi, on June 19.The accused allegedly claimed their company…
A dual US-Iranian citizen and chief executive of a Tehran-based technology company was arrested in the United States on federal charges relating to an alleged ten-year scheme to unlawfully export American-origin networking and encryption hardware to Iran’s nuclear and military sectors, in violation of sanctions regulations.According to ANI, the defendant, Jamshid Ghomi, 63, a resident…
Two Indian men who sought asylum in New Zealand on the basis of a claimed same-sex relationship are facing deportation after an immigration tribunal rejected their appeal, finding key parts of their account were not credible.The Immigration and Protection Tribunal found that the two men, both from Jammu and in their late 20s, failed to…
NEW DELHI: The National Human Rights Commission has issued notice to the National Medical Commission over allegations that postgraduate medical residents, including persons with disabilities (PwD), are being made to work “inhumane and unregulated” duty hours across medical colleges, calling for an action taken report within two weeks.Acting on a complaint filed by Dr Lakshya…
