Cyclone Ditwah triggers rainfall, strong winds and high tides India is on high alert as Cyclone Ditwah continues to move north-northwest over the southwest Bay of Bengal and is expected to reach close to the North Tamil Nadu–Puducherry–South Andhra Pradesh coast by early November 30, according to the India Meteorological Department (IMD). The agency has…
MLB trade rumor: Tyler Glasnow turns into Dodgers’ top trade weapon as Yankees eye Kyle Tucker behind Cody Bellinger (Image Via Getty) Tyler Glasnow’s name moved to the front of MLB rumors this week as teams started shaping their plans for Spring Training in February 2025. On Wednesday, an MLB executive told Jesse Rogers of…
Ranchi: India’s head coach Gautam Gambhir during a training session on the eve of the first ODI cricket match of a series between India and South Africa, in Ranchi, Jharkhand. (PTI Photo/Kamal Kishore) (PTI11_29_2025_000171A) NEW DELHI: After dominating at home for 12 straight years without dropping a single Test series, India have now lost two…
Sri Lanka declared a state of emergency on Saturday and sought international assistance as the death toll from Cyclone Ditwah’s rains and floods climbed to 132, with 176 people still missing.The extreme weather system has destroyed more than 15,000 homes and forced 78,000 people into state-run temporary shelters, the Disaster Management Centre (DMC) said, as…
NEW DELHI: The “Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II” is not just another fighter jet — it is a geopolitical instrument, a technological ecosystem and the most widely exported fifth-generation aircraft ever produced. No other defence platform in the modern era has reshaped alliances, altered regional balances of power, or influenced international diplomacy the way the…
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Jodie Haydon are showered with confetti after getting married in Canberra (AP image) Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese married his partner Jodie Haydon in a private ceremony at his official residence on Saturday. He became the first sitting Australian leader to tie the knot in the nation’s 124-year federal…
A massive overnight Russian assault on Ukraine killed three people and injured nearly 30, officials said on Saturday, as strikes on the power grid left more than 600,000 households without electricity.Residential buildings in multiple districts were hit in the early hours, with loud explosions echoing across the city as emergency crews responded, as cited by…
LUDHIANA: The Delhi Crime Branch on Friday arrested Ludhiana-based gangster Bandhu Maan Singh Sekhon, wanted by the Canadian authorities in connection with the shootings at comedian Kapil Sharma’s Kap’s Cafe in Surrey, Canada. During questioning, Sekhon revealed that the gang had planned to kill Kapil Sharma if the extortion money demanded from him was not…
Giannis and LeBron (Image via Getty) Talk around the league has escalated as the Los Angeles Lakers are increasingly positioned as a potential landing spot for Milwaukee Bucks superstar Giannis Antetokounmpo. With the franchise eyeing a future built around Luka Dončić, the possibility of pairing him with another generational MVP has created a wave of…
LUCKNOW: In an unusual and alarming incident, a man in Uttar Pradesh’s Bahraich district was found trapped inside a metal cage set up to capture a leopard that was terrorising villages in the Fakharpur area. The rescue operation lasted nearly two hours and involved both forest officials and local police.The incident occurred late on Thursday…
Ludhiana bride’s Canada car fire ‘accident’ turns into murder case LUDHIANA: The family of Mandeep Kaur Grewal, a city-origin permanent resident in Canada, mourns deeply after what seemed a highway car accident in Delta revealed a chilling truth: she was allegedly murdered by her brother-in-law. The shocking charges against Gurjot Singh Khaira have left her…
Al-Falah University founder Jawad Siddiqui’s NEW DELHI: While investigating the source of terror funding in the Red Fort bomb blast case, ED has stumbled upon a new land rip-off in Madanpur Khadar in Delhi, involving acquisition of prime land in 2013 from people, who had died between 1978 and 1998, by forging their signatures and…
Victim’s father Ravi Kumar NEW DELHI: A 27-year-old man was shot dead in Shahdara on Friday night, moments after he went to meet two men he had recently quarrelled with for a “reconciliation”, police said.Police received information about the shooting at 11.09pm on Friday. A team from the local police station rushed to the spot,…
PUNE: A senior consultant (35) with an IT firm suffered a stab wound to his rib as an SUV driver attacked him with a knife during an argument after the mirrors of the four-wheeler and the victim’s scooter brushed each other in Kharadi on Wednesday evening.The Kharadi police are looking for the SUV driver and…
NEW DELHI: Uranium contamination in Delhi’s groundwater has emerged as an alarming concern. The capital is now third in the country, after Punjab and Haryana, in percentage of samples breaching the permissible limit. According to the latest Annual Ground Water Quality Report 2025 submitted by Central Ground Water Board, 13-15% of the analysed samples in…
Representative image (Photo credit: AP) Nasa has, for the first time, found signs of ‘mini-lightning’ on Mars after its rover accidentally recorded tiny “zaps” during the planet’s frequent dust storms. Scientists have argued for years about whether electrical sparks could happen in Mars’ dusty atmosphere, but they never had solid proof.Now, a study titled “Detection…
India braces for cyclone that left over 80 dead in Lanka CHENNAI/VISAKHAPATNAM: The slow-moving cyclonic storm Ditwah on Friday brought rainfall to south Tamil Nadu, while the northern parts, including Chennai, brace for intense showers later this weekend.The storm crawled across Sri Lanka, covering only about 70 km in 15 hours with its speed dropping…
Karnataka’s Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar and Chief Minister Siddaramaiah met to quell speculation of a power-sharing tussle NEW DELHI: Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah and deputy CM DK Shivakumar on Saturday held a closely watched joint press briefing, where both netas projected a united front and stressed that there were “no differences” between them, despite…
Airbus has grounded 6,000 A320 aircraft—half its global fleet—for emergency software fixes after discovering intense solar radiation can corrupt critical flight control systems. The unprecedented recall follows an October incident when a JetBlue flight suddenly nosedived without pilot input, forcing an emergency landing. Airlines worldwide face massive disruptions during peak travel season, with repairs taking…
Picture credit: Sharanya Roy NEW DELHI: As many as 338 Airbus A320 family aircraft of IndiGo, Air India and AI Express have been impacted by the software issue that could potentially cause pilots to lose control amid intense solar storms. These three airlines have completed the update on 189 planes, nearly 56%, by 10 am…
