NEW DELHI: Thick black smoke blanketed Moscow’s skyline, reports of black rain surfaced across parts of the Russian capital and flights were temporarily grounded after Ukraine struck a key oil refinery during its largest drone offensive against Moscow in months. The attack, part of Kyiv’s campaign targeting Russia’s capital and energy infrastructure, prompted fresh Russian…
India’s crude import strategy has shifted sharply since March 2026 as Strait of Hormuz disruptions tightened Middle Eastern flows. (AI image) US-Iran war impact: India’s crude oil imports from Russia are set to hit an all–time high in June, according to data from Kpler, a global real-time data and analytics provider. Russia has been the…
For years, smartphone makers competed on cameras, chips and battery life. Now, they are locked in a race to cram as much artificial intelligence into our pockets as possible. Google, Apple, Samsung, Nothing and OnePlus all want their phones to remember, summarise, search, write and even anticipate what users might need next. The pitch is…
NEW DELHI: Days after the Ranchi RSS office attack, a police investigation into the three arrested accused has uncovered links to Pakistan’s ISI-funded Tehreek-e-Taliban Hindustan (TTH), according to sources cited by news agency ANI on Friday.The alleged role of Pakistan’s ISI came to light after the arrests made a day earlier.Officials said all three arrested…
CHENNAI: The Tamil Nadu assembly on Friday unanimously passed a resolution urging the Union govt not to grant any approval, including technical and environmental clearances, for Karnataka’s Mekedatu dam project.The resolution, moved by chief minister C Joseph Vijay, strongly objected to Karnataka’s “unilateral move” to construct a dam across river Cauvery. It said the proposal…
US President Donald Trump US President Donald Trump on Thursday rejected suggestions that the conflict with Iran exposed limits to American power, declaring that there were ‘no limits’ to what the United States could achieve.His remarks came after the United States and Iran formally entered into a peace agreement by digitally signing a memorandum of…
Vaibhav Sooryavanshi (Image credit: ICC) Teenage batting sensation Vaibhav Sooryavanshi could spark a “revival of Test cricket” if he fulfils his immense potential in the longest format, according to former India captain Krishnamachari Srikkanth, who urged fans and experts not to burden the youngster with excessive scrutiny.Fresh from a breakthrough Indian Premier League campaign, the…
A loitering munition developed by European defence giant KNDS. (Image credit KNDS) NEW DELHI: One of the lingering memories of Operation Sindoor was the loitering munition that crashed into a Pakistani HQ-9 air defence system at the defunct Walton Airport in the heart of Pakistan’s cultural capital Lahore. This was the first use of the…
Yann LeCun and Elon Musk: The AI “Godfather” just called Musk’s xAI “kind of a failure.” The usual case against xAI runs through spreadsheets—the operating losses, the compute bill, the benchmarks where it trails OpenAI and Google. Yann LeCun has a blunter theory, and it has nothing to do with the math. The people who…
Om Prakash Rajbhar claims Akhilesh Yadav’s ‘real uncle’ will take over Samajwadi Party NEW DELHI: Uttar Pradesh minister and Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party (SBSP) chief Om Prakash Rajbhar on Friday launched a scathing attack on Samajwadi Party leader Ram Gopal Yadav, accusing him of treating Rajbhar and Maurya communities as inferior to Yadavs.He also reiterated…