North Korea said Wednesday leader Kim Jong Un observed the test-firings of missiles from a recently launched destroyer — the first such warship for the North — and called for accelerating efforts to boost his navy’s nuclear attack capabilities. North Korea last week unveiled the 5,000-ton destroyer equipped with what it called the most powerful…
Cheteshwar Pujara and his wife Puja Cheteshwar Pujara‘s wife, Puja Pujara, has revealed in her book ‘The Diary of a Cricketer’s Wife’ that her husband overheard discussions about dropping him from the Melbourne Test during India’s 2018-19 tour of Australia, despite his strong performance in the series opener and dealing with both a hamstring injury…
Two Indian-origin MPs in New Zealand have introduced members’ bills to tackle important social issues. While the bill presented by Priyanca Radhakrishnan was aimed at criminalising virginity testing and hymenoplasty, the one by Parmjeet Parmar sought a balance between alcohol licensing and community well-being. Radhakrishnan is an MP from the Opposition Labour Party. She became…
NEW DELHI: The Army and DRDO conducted four successful flight tests of the medium-range surface-to-air missile (MR-SAM) systems, which have been developed jointly with Israel to have a 70-km interception range, on Thursday and Friday.The four operational flight-trials, conducted from Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Island off the Odisha coast, were carried out against high-speed aerial…
Unfortunately, Linda McMahon, the education secretary, agrees with President Trump’s executive order that the Department of Education should go away, but she hasn’t stopped there. As a consequence of massive job cuts McMahon has enacted so far, she has hobbled the federal government’s ability to gather statistics on student achievement, effective teaching practices and student…
West Indies cricketers (AP/PTI Photo) In a major leadership shake-up, Cricket West Indies (CWI) confirmed changes to their captaincy roles across formats on Monday. Kraigg Brathwaite has stepped down as the Test captain, while ODI skipper Shai Hope has been handed the reins of the T20I side, replacing Rovman Powell. Brathwaite, who led the West…
IFS 2024 personality tests to start on April 21; check schedule and travel reimbursement details UPSC IFS 2024 Personality Tests: The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) has announced that the Personality Tests (Interviews) for candidates who appeared in the Indian Forest Service (IFS) 2024 Examination will begin on April 21, 2025. These interviews are scheduled…
Track and field will introduce mandatory DNA sex testing for athletes entering female competitions, its global leader said Tuesday, making it the first Olympic sport to add the requirement. The move comes amid an increasingly vexed debate over eligibility rules in female sports and comes less than a year after the issue erupted at the…
India batter Cheteshwar Pujara expressed his desire to play in the England Test series later this year. Pujara’s last appearance for the Test team came during the World Test Championship 2023 where he registered figures of 14 and 27. Since then, he has been plundering runs in domestic cricket but hasn’t been able to make…
Funds for vital health programs around the world remain frozen and their work has not been able to resume, despite a federal judge’s order that temporarily halted the Trump administration’s dismantling of the government’s main foreign aid agency. Interviews with people working on health initiatives in Africa and Asia found that parents in Kenya whose…