NEW DELHI: India made a strong start to its athletics campaign at the Asian Games 2026 on Thursday, winning two medals. The mixed 4x400m relay team won silver, while Seema won bronze in the women’s 10,000m. Seema’s medal was India’s first athletics medal at these Games.The relay team of TS Manu, MR Poovamma, Vishal TK…
Govt sources issue clarification amid UPI MDR row NEW DELHI: Banks will monitor merchants to ensure that the Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) on UPI transactions is not passed on to consumers, news agency ANI reported citing government sources on Thursday. Further, they said that not a single penny from MDR will come to government, rather…
AI-generated representative image: Unsold video game cartridges are depicted being buried under landfill waste, illustrating the reported disposal of Atari cartridges in a New Mexico landfill in 1983. Credits: ChatGPT Atari collapsed in the early 1980s but its legend did not. For decades, a story circulated among video game enthusiasts claiming that the company dumped…
Engineers working to upgrade a busy highway junction near San Francisco in 2000 faced a serious technical problem. The ground was made up of about 30 feet of unstable bay mud, a soft type of soil that could sink or crack under the weight of normal road-building materials. To solve the problem, project planners used…
YouTube CEO Neal Mohan has rejected joining Meta’s multistate child safety settlement. He clarified that the Google-owned video platform already has measures in place to protect young users. His comments come after Meta agreed to a multistate deal worth up to $18 billion that calls for new restrictions on how teenagers use Facebook and Instagram,…
BJP counters Rahul Gandhi with Tamil Nadu, Bengal poll history NEW DELHI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi‘s claim that anti-incumbency has “disappeared” for the BJP because of its alleged collusion with the Election Commission drew a sharp response from the ruling party. BJP national spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi cited the Congress’s electoral record in states including Tamil…
A Wisconsin university campus that spent nearly six decades serving students has entered a new chapter, with its 76-acre property now approved for sale and proposed redevelopment into a large residential neighbourhood.The Waukesha County Board on September 22 approved an ordinance authorising the sale of the former University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee at Waukesha campus at 1500…
Influence over Hormuz has given Iran a form of leverage that is disproportionate to its conventional economic and military weight. It has been more than 200 days since the US-Iran war began, and yet the conflict remains without a conclusion. One can expect a superpower like the United States, with the biggest economy and overwhelming…
Satnam Singh and Salman Khan won India’s first-ever Asian Games medal in men’s double sculls (PTI Photo) NEW DELHI: Satnam Singh and Salman Khan won India’s first-ever Asian Games medal in men’s double sculls on Thursday, with the Indian pair claiming bronze at the Nagaragawa International Regatta Course.But for Satnam, the medal meant much more…
Despite judge’s order, White House again blocks Politico reporter The White House on Thursday denied access to reporters from Politico and MS NOW, despite a judge ordering the Donald Trump administration to “immediately restore” access for news organisations whose journalists had been barred from the presidential complex.The Politico and MS NOW reporters were denied entry…
