Author: Rahul M

The Trump administration this weekend downplayed a report that officials left in a public area of a hotel documents describing the confidential movements of President Donald Trump and President Vladimir Putin of Russia during their meeting in Alaska on Friday. NPR reported earlier that the documents were left on a printer in the Hotel Captain Cook in downtown Anchorage, near Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, where Trump and Putin had their meeting about the war in Ukraine. The documents were produced by the Office of the Chief of Protocol, a position held by Monica Crowley, a former Fox News personality who served…

Netflix In “My Oxford Year,” Anna (Sofia Carson) heads across the pond to take a year for herself before starting her finance job with Goldman Sachs. The Netflix movie follows Anna as she settles in at Oxford University, ready to spend the next several months learning about Victorian poetry from a professor she looks up to. However, there’s a last-minute change, and the course is instead taught by Jamie Davenport (Corey Mylchreest), a PhD student Anna previously met when he splashed her with his car. After some initial friction, the…

Late in the summer of 2021, Greer Jarrett set out on the first of 26 voyages to retrace the maritime paths taken by Norse sailors during the Viking Age, which lasted from roughly A.D. 800 to 1050. The Vikings, beyond their reputation as medieval bad boys — Pillage People, if you will — were accomplished traders who established commercial routes that stretched all the way to Baghdad. Their primacy relied on mastery of the seas. Jarrett, a doctoral candidate in archaeology at Lund University in Sweden, was intrigued not only by where these ancient mariners started and wound up, but…

Star Indian javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra has secured his place in the men’s javelin throw event at the Diamond League 2025 Final in Zurich, Switzerland, scheduled to be held on August 27 and 28. Neeeraj, a two-time Olympic medallist, did not compete in the Silesia Diamond League. However, with 15 points from two DL appearances this year, he has already made the cut for the grand finale, as per the latest standings released after the Silesia leg on Saturday. In his two Diamond League outings this season, the 27-year-old Chopra claimed win at the Paris leg with a throw of…

Ravindra Jadeja’s trademark sword-swinging celebration has been a common sight on the cricketing field. But former Australia pacer Brett Lee has cautioned the veteran all-rounder in pulling off the celebration, saying he is at the risk of injuring his rotator cuff muscle.  Jadeja amassed 516 runs in the drawn 2-2 Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy Test series against England, including hitting five half-centuries and one hundred. “The thing with Jadeja, the only way I see him getting injured is doing a rotator cuff with his, the way he does a sword celebration. So, I love it. Look after your body. Don’t celebrate too…

South Africa veteran left-arm spinner Keshav Maharaj said he remains determined to stake for a spot in the 2026 Men’s T20 World Cup after being overlooked for the recent T20I series against Australia.   Maharaj is one of five changes to South Africa’s ODI squad that will face Australia at the Cazalys Stadium from Tuesday, alongside skipper Temba Bavuma, Wiaan Mulder, Matthew Breetzke and Tony de Zorzi. He missed South Africa’s recent Test series win against Zimbabwe with a groin strain, but confirmed the injury had no bearing on his omission from the T20I series, which the visitors’ lost 2-1.…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Cloudbursts are causing chaos in mountainous parts of India and Pakistan, with tremendous amounts of rain falling in a short period of time over a concentrated area. The intense, sudden deluges have proved fatal in both countries. As many as 300 people died in one northwestern Pakistani district, Buner, after a cloudburst. The strength and volume of rain triggered flash flooding, landslides and mudflows. Boulders from steep slopes came crashing down with the water to flatten homes and reduce villages to rubble. The northern Indian state of Uttarakhand had a cloudburst earlier this month. Local TV showed…

The Karnataka High Court recently ruled that denial of admission to a private unaided school will not violate the right to education under the Constitution. Article 21A of the Constitution, introduced by the 86th Amendment in 2002, guarantees free and compulsory education for children aged 6 to 14 years. In this case, the petitioner approached the high court seeking an order to admit his son to St Paul’s High School in Belagavi as a lower kindergarten student. He said they had received a communication stating that his son had been selected for admission as a student, and they would have…

20th Century Fox With Bruce Willis in the role that made him a global superstar, “Die Hard” was an instant classic upon its 1988 release, going down in history as arguably the greatest action movie ever made. Willis stars as John McClane, a beleaguered NYPD cop who gets trapped in a high-rise building with a group of diabolical terrorists, led by Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman), who are holding McClane’s estranged wife — and dozens of other innocent people — hostage. The terrorists are after a stash of bearer bonds, and it’s up…

Kolkata, Aug 17 (PTI) Trinamool Congress on Sunday expressed doubt about the “efficacy” of Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls of West Bengal by the Election Commission and vowed to oppose any move by EC to delete names of genuine voters. At a press meet in Delhi, Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar said Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in West Bengal and other states will be announced in due course. He said the SIR exercise was aimed at removing all shortcomings in the voter list, and it is a matter of grave concern that some parties are…