NEW DELHI: In a big boost to connectivity in Kashmir, PM Narendra Modi is likely to inaugurate the 6.5-km Z-Morh road tunnel between Gagangir and Sonmarg in the Valley on Lohri (January 13) to make Sonamarg an all-weather tourist destination. The Indian Railways on Wednesday also successfully operated a train at 110 kmph on USBRL’s…
Foreign secretary Vikram Misri meets acting Afghan FM. (ANI) In another sign of India’s deepening ties with the Taliban, foreign secretary Vikram Misri met Afghanistan’s acting foreign minister Amir Khan Muttaqi in Dubai, conveying India’s readiness to respond to the urgent development needs of the Afghan people and getting an assurance that the Taliban would…
Elon Musk has made ‘mystery gifts’. According to a recent regulatory filing, Tesla CEO Elon Musk donated 268,000 shares of Tesla stock valued at nearly $112 million. The Securities and Exchange (SEC) filing dated December 30 says that the donation is to charity and that the transaction is part of Musk’s year-end tax planning. The…
NEW DELHI: At least four people were killed in a stampede that broke out late Wednesday evening in Andhra Pradesh’s Tirupati temple. The stampede broke out near Vaikuntha Dwara Darshan ticketing center during the distribution of tokens. Andhra Pradesh CM Chandrababu Naidu expressed his deep shock over the death of the devotees in the stampede,…
Dhanashree Verma and Yuzvendra Chahal file photo NEW DELHI: Amid rumours of everything not being well between India cricketer Yuzvendra Chahal and social media influencer wife Dhanashree Verma, the latter on Wednesday hit out at ‘faceless’ trolls for spreading fake news.In a social media post, a fuming Dhanashree said that the murmur and false news…
In a tragic event, Pritish Nandy passed away at his Mumbai home on Wednesday. Actor and politician Anupam Kher confirmed the news on social media.Check out his post here:He wrote, ‘Deeply deeply saddened and shocked to know about the demise of one of my dearest and closest friends #PritishNandy! Amazing poet, writer, filmmaker and a…
BENGALURU: The two Space Docking Experiment (SpaDeX) satellites that Isro was hoping to unite early Thursday have drifted too far apart late Wednesday, causing a second postponement of the final procedure in three days.“While making a maneuver to reach 225m between satellites the drift was found to be more than expected, post non-visibility period. The…
TOI Correspondent from Washington: Disdainful of Nato and European security during his first term, US President-elect Donald Trump has virtually torpedoed the alliance even before he takes office for a second term by seeking to occupy or appropriate territory of two of its members, Canada and Denmark.Jaws dropped in geo-political circles across the world as…
Sam Altman expressed a combination of grief and frustration. In a bombshell legal filing, Ann Altman, the sister of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, has accused her brother of sexual abuse over several years, starting when she was just three years old and he was twelve. The lawsuit, filed on January 6 in a US District…
Two teenage step-sisters were arrested in Pakistan’s Gujranwala, for allegedly setting their father on fire in revenge for rape, leading to his death, police reported on Wednesday.The father died on Tuesday from injuries sustained in the January 1st attack.The girls confessed to the act, according to police official Rizwan Tariq. “The girls said that they…
