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Oil price today: Oil prices surged more than 9% on Thursday, climbing back above the $100-a-barrel mark as fresh strikes on energy supplies and infrastructure in the Middle East heightened fears of major disruptions, overshadowing a record release of crude from strategic reserves aimed at calming markets.Brent Crude jumped 9.3% to $100.50 per barrel, while…
Sleeper bus caught fire on the Agra-Lucknow Expressway LUCKNOW: Quick thinking by bus driver Jagat Singh and his two aides, Shyam Sundar and Manish, saved the lives of 39 passengers when their Delhi–Gonda sleeper bus suddenly caught fire on the Agra–Lucknow Expressway early Sunday morning.Speaking to The Times of India, driver Jagat Singh recounted the…
India vs Pakistan (Getty Images) NEW DELHI: The Asia Cup 2025 has reached its business end with only four matches left, including Sunday’s grand finale, and the race to the final remains wide open. After India and Bangladesh opened their Super Fours campaign with victories, Pakistan revived their hopes with a gritty five-wicket win over…
Mandira Bedi changed the game for women in the field of cricket and how they were perceived. She became the first woman to host the ICC Cricket World Cup, breaking stereotypes in a field long dominated by men. The transition, however, was not without challenges. She faced intense scrutiny and was even branded “dumb” by…
NEW DELHI: New rules for online gaming will come into force from October 1, Union information and technology minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Thursday.“We have had multiple discussions with them (online gaming companies and stakeholders)… and after passing the law, once again, we engaged with them,” Vaishnaw said. The government had also spoken to banks…
Google which had reportedly decided to abstain from military work in the year 2018 is now rebuilding its relationship with the Defense Department. According to a report in the New York Times, as Anthropic and its CEO Dario Amodei clashed with the Department of Defense last month over the use of artificial intelligence in warfare,…
NEW DELHI: India on Friday strongly rejected accusations by Bangladesh’s interim government that New Delhi was involved in fuelling the recent violence in Khagrachhari district of the Chittagong Hill Tracts terming it “false and baseless”.Responding to a question on Bangladesh home adviser Jahangir Alam Chowdhury’s remarks, Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said:…
Australia’s Steve Smith, right, walks out to meet England’s Ben Stokes following the final Ashes Test in Sydney. (AP Photo) NEW DELHI: Batting legend Sunil Gavaskar launched a scathing broadside against Ben Stokes’ England after their crushing 4-1 defeat in the 2025–26 Ashes series in Australia, branding the visitors “paper tigers” and declaring that the…
The auto component industry expects the real impact of US tariffs to play out in the second half of the current financial year, with uncertainty beginning to cloud fresh export contracts even as existing supplies continue, industry body ACMA said on Wednesday.Despite global headwinds, the sector posted steady growth in the first half of FY26….
Amir Khan Muttaqi with Dr. Jaishankar The Taliban government on Friday accused Pakistan of bombing a border town and violating Afghanistan’s sovereignty, following two late-night explosions in the capital Kabul. “Pakistan violated Afghanistan’s airspace, bombing a civilian market in the Marghi area of Paktika near the Durand Line and also violating Kabul’s sovereign territory,” the…
