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Babar
NEW DELHI: Amid Babar Azam's struggles with the bat, the Pakistan star has become a constant target for trolls on social media. As the batter stepped down as the captain of Pakistan's ODI and T20I team, social media was abuzz with brutal messages. Babar took to X to announce resigning from the post in ODIs and T20Is, adding that he...
Selena Gomez
LOS ANGELES: Singer-actress Selena Gomez said that she finds "overwhelming" that she has been in show business for so long. She told E! News: "I would tell her to just calm down, everything’s going to be fine on the other side. It’s a bit overwhelming being in this industry for so long. I’m very grateful that I’m in a much...
malaria
ADDIS ABABA: The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued a warning over an "extremely concerning malaria surge" in Ethiopia. In an Ethiopia Health Cluster Bulletin report released Monday evening, the United Nations agency said the East African country reported over 5.9 million malaria cases, including 1,023 deaths, between the start of this year and September 22. This is an "extremely concerning...
UN peacekeepers
UNITED NATIONS: The UN peacekeepers in Lebanon, including about 900 Indians, are remaining in place despite the “dangerous developments” following Israel’s ground invasion of the country and the UN is in close contact with their countries with updates, according to the UN spokesperson. The UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) officials “confirm that despite these dangerous developments, UN peacekeepers remain...
phone
NEW YORK: As screen addiction among children becomes a nightmare for parents and teachers, allowing students to use smartphones for a very brief amount of time can actually enhance classroom performance and reduce phone use, researchers said on Wednesday. A team of US researchers conducted a term-long experiment that showed that allowing college students to use their phones for just...
Israel
TEL AVIV: Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on Wednesday posted an illustration on his social media 'X' profile of a large underground weapons cache after firing over 180 ballistic missiles on Israel. Khamenei captioned the post as "Victory from God and a near conquest..." In another post, he said, "The strikes of the resistance front on the worn-out and decaying body...
AR Rahman
MUMBAI: Music maestro AR Rahman has come on board to compose the music for Hansal Mehta's directorial 'Gandhi'. On the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti on Wednesday, Applause Entertainment shared the update. Excited to have Rahman in the 'Gandhi' team, Sameer Nair, Managing Director of Applause Entertainment, said, "Gandhi is not just a series, it's a global narrative on the triumph of...
flood
NEW DELHI: The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has released Rs5,858.60 crore to 14 flood-affected states as the central share from the State Disaster Response Fund (SDRF) and as an advance from the National Disaster Response Fund (NDRF). Inter-Ministerial Central Teams (IMCTs) were deployed to the flood-affected states of Assam, Mizoram, Kerala, Tripura, Nagaland, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, and Manipur...
Mahatma Gandhi
NEW DELHI: President Droupadi Murmu and Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Wednesday paid tribute to Mahatma Gandhi on the occasion of his 155th birth anniversary at Rajghat in the national capital. Earlier, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, along with Union Minister Manohar Lal and Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, also paid tribute to Mahatma Gandhi at Rajghat. In a post on X,...
FBI
NEW YORK: The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has agreed to pay more than $22 million to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging female recruits were singled out for dismissal in training and routinely harassed by instructors with sexually charged comments about their breast size, false allegations of infidelity and the need to take contraception "to control their moods." "The...