Ali Khamenei; Abbas Araghchi Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi on Friday claimed he was inside the office of then-Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei when it was attacked during the first wave of US-Israeli strikes in Tehran on February 28 that triggered the Middle East conflict.He said that he emerged from the “rubble” fearing for Khamenei’s fate,…
For decades, dinosaurs like Velociraptor have dominated our imagination as fast-moving predators that chased prey across dusty landscapes. But deep in the fossil-rich rocks of southern Patagonia, scientists have uncovered a very different kind of raptor, one that may have spent much of its life standing quietly beside rivers, waiting for fish.The newly identified dinosaur,…
The curtain has finally fallen on ‘Dhurandhar 2: The Revenge’s record-breaking theatrical run. Day 78 added a final Rs 0.07 crore across 174 shows, taking the Ranveer Singh-led espionage epic’s domestic net to Rs 1149.02 crore, falling short of the Rs 1150 crore milestone by just Rs 0.98 crore. With a worldwide gross of Rs…
NEW DELHI: Former Tamil Nadu BJP chief K Annamalai on Friday resigned from the party, saying he wanted to start a new “political movement.”He also voiced to end “cult and dynastic” politics. His resignation made the speculations official after days of buzz around his possible exit from the BJP. The development comes a month after…
NEW DELHI: India head coach Gautam Gambhir has thrown his weight behind the ICC’s new regulation allowing the use of a pink ball under floodlights in red-ball matches interrupted by bad light, calling it a “proactive” and “positive” move that could prevent teams from being denied crucial results.Speaking ahead of India’s one-off Test against Afghanistan…
It is easy to picture the Great Pyramid of Giza standing isolated against sand and heat, as if it had always belonged to a desert that never changed. That image has shaped how the monument is discussed for centuries, especially the question of how such heavy stone blocks ever reached the plateau in the first…
Veteran producer and former CBFC chairperson Pahlaj Nihalani passed away on June 4 at the age of 76 after a prolonged illness. Actors Govinda and Chunky Panday, whose careers he helped launch, paid emotional tributes, with Govinda calling him a father figure and their foundation stone in the industry. The Hindi cinema lost a legendary…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday welcomed Blackstone-backed AirTrunk’s proposed investment programme of Rs 3 lakh crore in India by 2030 to expand digital infrastructure capacity, signalling one of the country’s largest proposed investments in data centres, cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure.He said that the investment plan reflected the growing strength…
Britain targets student visa abuse with tough new rules for universities / Image: File Universities in England could face restrictions on recruiting overseas students or even lose their sponsorship licences under new government plans aimed at tackling abuse of the student visa system.The measures, announced by the UK Home Office on Wednesday, form part of…
Somewhere beneath the frozen soils of the Arctic, life has been waiting patiently for millennia. Long before the rise of modern civilisation, before the construction of the Great Pyramids, and even before many of today’s ecosystems existed in their current form, microscopic organisms became trapped within layers of permafrost. Locked away in permanently frozen ground,…