India’s rise has been steady. From 39th in London in 2011, it improved to 33rd in Leipzig in 2013, 29th in São Paulo in 2015 and 19th in Abu Dhabi in 2017. SHANGHAI: Fifteen years ago, India stood 39th in a global competition that tests whether young people can actually make, repair, design, build and…
India’s Anahat Singh and Abhay Singh after winning silver medals. (PTI Photo) NEW DELHI: India added seven more medals to its Asian Games 2026 tally on Sunday, but the haul was not enough to keep the country inside the top 10 of the medal standings.India ended Day 8 with 37 medals — four gold, 16…
Republicans hold a 218-214 House majority, with one independent caucusing with them and two vacancies; Democrats need four seats to take control. US Republicans are pouring money into more than three dozen US House races previously considered safe for the party, with Republican groups reserving $888 million in advertising for the coming weeks, compared with…
Bosco Martis, the celebrated choreographer known for his work alongside Caesar Gonsalves as the duo Bosco-Caesar, recently opened up about an interaction he had with actor Vivek Oberoi in the early 2000s, following the success of Company (2002) and Saathiya (2002). While Bosco admitted that Vivek’s response initially left him feeling hurt, he later came…
Rob Lowe jokes that Will Smith’s infamous Oscars slap to Chris Rock briefly took the spotlight off his own decades-old Academy Awards controversy. Actor Rob Lowe has opened up about one of the most infamous moments in Oscars history, his bizarre 1989 Academy Awards performance, and admitted that he was actually relieved when Will Smith…
‘American terrorist army’: Iran claims second US drone seized in Hormuz (Reuters file photo) Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) navy has claimed it captured a second advanced US unmanned underwater vehicle, the Remus 600, in the Strait of Hormuz.According to a statement carried by Iranian state broadcaster IRIB on Sunday, the operation targeted what…
When Nasa’s Perseverance rover reached the inner edge of Jezero Crater in September 2023, scientists expected to find sedimentary rocks shaped by an ancient Martian lake. Instead, the rover discovered igneous rocks whose minerals preserve a much more complicated history of water activity. A new study published in Communications Earth & Environment shows that the…
Filmmaker Sanjay Gupta has raised questions about why Bollywood continues to associate smoking with a leading man’s image, particularly on posters. On Sunday, the director shared posters of Ranbir Kapoor from Sandeep Reddy Vanga’s ‘Animal’, Ranveer Singh from Aditya Dhar’s ‘Dhurandhar’, and Vicky Kaushal from Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s ‘Love & War’, pointing out that all…
Saudi airstrike kills 7 in Yemen; Delhi PWD minister seen slapping man A Saudi airstrike killed seven people and wounded 40 at a market in Yemen’s Taiz province as fighting intensified following a fresh Houthi offensive. Pakistan defence minister Khawaja Asif faced criticism on social media over a threat-like gesture he made towards an Afghan…
American rock icon Jon Bon Jovi turned a $10 million land purchase into a major Palm Beach real estate upgrade, selling his custom-built home for nearly twice what he paid for the land before buying a much larger oceanfront estate nearby. Property records and reports from The Real Deal show the singer sold his custom-built…