Syria’s interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa, right, shakes hands with U.S. Ambassador to Turkey and Special Envoy to Syria Tom Barrack (AP) The newly appointed American special envoy for Syria Thomas Barrack on Thursday, arrived at ambassador’s residence in the Syrian capital on a first official visit by a high ranking US official ever since US…
Lahore Qalandars’ Sikandar Raza celebrates after winning the PSL final. (AP Photo) In one of the most dramatic finishes in Pakistan Super League history, Zimbabwe’s Sikandar Raza flew in from England and arrived at the Gaddafi Stadium just 10 minutes before the toss — only to hit the winning runs and crown Lahore Qalandars as…
The French Open 2025 draw threw up some blockbuster matchups on Thursday, setting the stage for a gripping fortnight at Roland Garros. World No. 1 Jannik Sinner and 24-time Grand Slam champion Novak Djokovic find themselves in the same half of the men’s draw, while defending women’s champion Iga Swiatek faces a loaded section that…
NEW DELHI: An IndiGo flight, 6E 2142, winging its way atom Delhi to Srinagar on Wednesday evening encountered turbulence due to weather. The Airbus A321 (VT-IMD) had taken off from Delhi at 5 pm. About 45 minutes into the journey, it ran into bad weather and pilots reported the emergency to Srinagar ATC. The plane…
After looping through space for 53 years, a wayward Soviet spacecraft called Kosmos-482 returned to Earth, entering the dense layers of the planet’s atmosphere at 9:24 a.m. Moscow time on Saturday, according to Roscosmos, the Russian state corporation that runs the space program. Designed to land on the surface of Venus, Kosmos-482 may have remained…
During his presidential campaign, Donald J. Trump pledged to quickly bring down prices for American households, including making housing more affordable. “We’re going to open up tracts of federal land for housing construction,” Mr. Trump said in August. “We desperately need housing for people who can’t afford what’s going on now.” The Trump administration is…
An Indian-origin man was sentenced to 14 months in prison for large-scale H-1B visa fraud in the US. As co-founder of a firm, Nanosemantics, Kishore Dattapuram provided skilled workers to Bay Area tech companies, earning commissions. Other than the prison term, California-based Dattapuram will also have to serve three years of supervised release. The firm’s…
An Indian-origin Malaysian man, who claimed to have been lured into smuggling dogs and kittens by one ‘Mr Dog’, was sentenced to eight weeks in prison and fined SGD 2,500 (approximately Rs 1.5 lakh) by a Singapore court on Tuesday. Forty-three-year-old Mahentharan Ganesan was arrested after he was caught smuggling a puppy from Malaysia in…
NEW DELHI: Tahawwur Hussain Rana, a key accused in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, will finally reach India after being extradited from the United States after over a decade of legal wrangling. A multi-agency Indian team is en route with Rana, and he is expected to land in India by Thursday afternoon, according to media…
MANDALAY: The first Relief and Rescue Detachment of 10 personnel landed at Mandalay International Airport, Myanmar, at 5:45 pm MST on Sunday, according to the Indian Army.The team has begun site reconnaissance for establishing the Field Hospital and is currently undergoing orientation of the Area of Operations, the Indian Army said. The main body of…