When 16-year-old Adam Raine died by suicide in April, his parents thought they had lost their spirited, playful son to anxiety and isolation. But within weeks, they discovered something more chilling: that their son’s closest confidant in his final weeks was not a friend, a teacher, or a counsellor — but ChatGPT. According to a…
Irfan Pathan and Shahid Afridi NEW DELHI: Former India all-rounder Irfan Pathan has opened up about his long-standing on-field rivalry with Pakistan’s Shahid Afridi, recalling both the personal barbs and the cricketing battles that defined their encounters.Pathan, who had immense success against Pakistan in his career — taking 67 wickets and scoring 807 runs, including…
BENGALURU: India forced Pakistan “to its knees within hours” during Operation Sindoor in early May, PM Narendra Modi said Sunday, while calling the military success a show of “the new face” of a nation powered by technology and home-grown defence manufacturing.His remarks reinforced the nation’s position that no external party, including the US, played a…
MUMBAI: In the 1,036-page judgment in the Malegaon blast case, the judge found merit in allegations that the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) had tortured witnesses and planted evidence. While the court dismissed torture claims from now- acquitted accused Pragya Thakur and Lt Col Prasad Purohit, it did find accused Sameer Kulkarni’s claims of illegal detention to…
Indian bowlers in England (Photo by Gareth Copley/Getty Images) LONDON: Fifteen minutes before tea on Day Two, Mohammed Siraj had his hands on his head when Jamie Smith nearly played around a ball angled into the stumps. That was Siraj’s last delivery of a spell that brought India roaring back into the final Test here…
New Delhi: The Seventies were barren years for East Zone, a minnow in domestic cricket those days. No cricketer from Bengal, Bihar, Orissa and Assam, the four states which combined to form the zone in Duleep Trophy then, found a place in a Test playing XI. In 1979, the drought was broken by an aging…
Virat Kohli and Anushka Sharma (BCCI Photo) NEW DELHI: Virat Kohli’s wife and acclaimed actress Anushka Sharma shared a deeply emotional message on social media following Kohli’s announcement of retirement from Test cricket on Monday. Kohli brought the curtains down on an illustrious 14-year-long red-ball career, having featured in 123 Tests since making his debut…
President Trump didn’t seem to mind as his worldwide tariffs set off stock market sell-offs and wiped out trillions of dollars in wealth. “Be cool,” he told Americans. Then he blinked on Wednesday afternoon in the face of financial turmoil, particularly a rapid rise in government bond yields that could shake the dominant position of…
After hours of exhausting negotiations that ended with Ukraine agreeing to a Trump administration proposal for a 30-day cease-fire with Russia, it was not until the delegation from Kyiv was flying home that it got the news it was most desperate to hear: American military assistance was flowing again. “I will only say that there…
Virat Kohli receives the medal from ICC chairman Jay Shah. (AP Photo) Former Pakistan wicketkeeper-batter Kamran Akmal has stirred controversy with his blunt remarks regarding the absence of a representative from host nation Pakistan during the prize distribution ceremony of the recently concluded ICC Champions Trophy. Akmal asserted that Pakistan did not “deserve” to have…