A Delta Air Lines flight arriving from New York was evacuated. A Delta Air Lines flight arriving from New York was evacuated after landing at Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport on Tuesday following a bomb threat, Israeli media reported. Security officials searched the aircraft but found no suspicious items.Passengers were escorted from the Airbus A330 to…
Govt defers 0.4% merchant discount rate on UPI payments MUMBAI: Its official. There will be no MDR on UPI until the festival season is over. The National Payment’s Corporation of India’s The UPI and Services Steering Committee has deferred the implementation of merchant discount rates (MDR) on select person-to-merchant UPI transactions until immediately after Diwali,…
Sheetal Devi, Pramod Bhagat and Bhavina Patel NEW DELHI: India will send 166 athletes across 10 disciplines to the 2026 Asian Para Games in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan, with the Sports Ministry approving a 275-member contingent for the continental event scheduled from October 18 to 24. The approved list features several Paralympic medallists, world champions and emerging…
Picture Credit: Instagram Actress Nabha Natesh is set to return to Kannada cinema with her next romance drama, ‘Chemistry’ opposite actor Dhruva Sarja. Marking her presence in the Sandalwood after almost since her last appearance in the 2017 film ‘Saheba’, the actress recently shared that she is looking forward to returning to her roots and…
Pakistan-based handles under scanner? Delhi Police registers 4 FIRs over online posts NEW DELHI: Delhi Police on Tuesday registered four FIRs over allegedly fake online posts circulated since October 10, while social media handles based in Pakistan remain under scrutiny as part of the investigation, news agency PTI reported.“Till now, around 500 social media posts…
The identification tags were found among old military records at Beverly Veterans’ Services (Credit: CBS) A 104-year-old woman in Massachusetts has received her brother’s military identification tags 83 years after he died in a plane crash during World War II. Dorothy Stewart, who was 21 when her brother Bernard Parnell died in 1943, was reunited…
Jewellers are also turning to 18-carat, 14-carat and 9-carat gold. Gold prices have risen sharply from levels seen in last year’s festive season. The sharp hike in gold prices is prompting jewellery buyers to consider diamonds as an alternative, with retailers projecting a 15-20% increase in diamond jewellery sales this festive season.Retailers said the Navratri…
Para-badminton player Pramod Bhagat, para-archer Rakesh Kumar, para table tennis player Bhavina Patel, and others during the send-off ceremony. (PTI Photo) NEW DELHI: The Sports Ministry has dropped under-fire para-shooting coach Jai Prakash Nautiyal from India’s contingent for the Asian Para Games 2026, approving a 166-athlete squad for the continental event in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan, amid…
Picture Credit: Instagram Actress Sobhita Dhulipala shared how her views on dating an actor have changed over time, after she tied the knot with Telugu star Nag Chaitanya. Before her marriage, the ‘Made in Heaven’ actress had said that she would never date. However, she now admits that her earlier opinion was shaped by stereotypes…
South Korea test fires its hypersonic glide vehicle. The maiden test of the missile was termed a success. (image credit: Blue House, South Korea) South Korea has successfully tested a domestically developed hypersonic boost-glide vehicle, with footage showing the vehicle impacting the water at the end of its flight. The missile has been tested by…
